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• Alligators and Crocodiles.

  During cold winters, alligators bury themselves in mud. There they can hibernate until spring. WHERE CROCODILES LIVE Four species of crocodiles live in the Americas. These crocodiles are found in southern Florida, Cuba andother Caribbean islands, southern Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. The Indo-Pacific crocodile lives along the seacoasts of India, southern China, Malaysia, and Australia.The swamp crocodile is found in the lakes and rivers of India. The Nile crocodile lives...

• Jerusalem - geography.

  The population of Jerusalem is divided along lines of ethnicity, religion, and nationality; the primary division is between the Jewish Israeli majority (70 percent) and thePalestinian Arab minority (30 percent). Further divisions exist within both of these groups. The Jewish population has a variety of communities, some based on degree ofreligious observance. Many strictly Orthodox Jews are concentrated in the Mea She’arim religious neighborhood. In the Palestinian population, distinctions can b...

• Eagles.

  THREATS TO EAGLES Eagles do not like to live near people. Because they are such big birds, they need lots of room to hunt.People have moved into wilderness areas where eagles lived and built farms and cities. People have alsohunted eagles. Chemicals used in farming have reduced the number of eagles. Many kinds of eagles,including the American bald eagle, became endangered during the 20th century. Some governments have passed laws to protect eagles. Conservation groups also worked to help savethe...

• Rock (mineral).

  pressure mineral assemblage. In a sense, the rock is stuck in a state that is characteristic of its earlier high-temperature and high-pressure environment. Thus,metamorphic rocks carry with them information about the history of temperatures and pressures to which they were subjected. The size, shape, and distribution of mineral grains in a rock are called the texture of the rock. Many metamorphic rocks are named for their main texture. Textures giveimportant clues as to how the rock formed. As t...

• El Salvador (república) - geografía.

  Los recursos naturales de El Salvador son básicamente agrícolas y forestales. Destacan los cultivos de café, algodón y caña de azúcar. Se encuentran maderas de gran valorcomercial, como roble negro, cedro, guayacán o palosanto, caoba, granadillo y árbol del caucho. Hay depósitos minerales, en cantidades reducidas, de oro, plata, piedracaliza y yeso. 2.4 Vegetación y fauna Las montañas de El Salvador están cubiertas por pastizales y por bosques poco densos de encinas y coníferas. La vegetación n...

• Nixon's Checkers Speech Under attack for having used a secret campaign fund for his personal expenses, Richard M.

  The first way is to be a rich man. I don't happen to be a rich man so I couldn't use that. Another way that is used is to put your wife on the payroll. Let me say, incidentally, my opponent, my opposite number for the Vice Presidency on the Democraticticket, does have his wife on the payroll. And has had her on his payroll for the ten years—the past ten years. Now just let me say this. That's his business and I'm not critical of him for doing that. You will have to pass judgment on that particul...

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: THE THEORY OF IDEAS of PLATO

  and that only a concrete individual can be a human being? (D) Classes. Attributes serve as principles according to which objects can be collected into classes: objects whichpossess the attribute of humanity, for instance, can be grouped into the class of human beings. In some waysclasses seem closer than attributes to Platonic Ideas: participation in an Idea can be understood without too muchdifficulty as membership of a class. Classes, like attributes, and unlike paradigms and concrete univers...

• Houston - geography.

  Medical Research in HoustonThe city of Houston in southeastern Texas is home to the Texas Medical Center, a complex of more than 40 medical institutions. Inthis Medical Center laboratory, a scientist operates a DNA synthesizer in research aimed at developing a vaccine to protect againstHIV.Hank Morgan-Science Source/Photo Researchers, Inc. Situated near major petroleum and natural-gas fields, Houston is the center of the national petroleum industry. The metropolitan region leads the nation in pe...

• script

  E : We are sorry for you.. My friend lost a member of her family who lived there. L: And then I became very interested in this tsunami and I did a lot of research to understand it! C-A : What kind of?! L : On why the tsunami happened. In the Indian Ocean, Indo-Australian and Euroasian plates are superposing. There are many faults there. There is a subduction which means the Indo-Autralian plate goes under the Euroasian plate. E : Yes, we know that, we are scientific journalists. L : I did...

• Anomalous monism

  in the following section. (Hereafter, ‘mental event' will be used in a restricted sense to mean acquiring or losing apropositional attitude.) 3 Psychophysical anomalism One way that psychophysical anomalism could fail is if there is a basic vocabulary for a closed, comprehensive theory that includes both mental and physical terms. A Cartesianinteractionist (see Dualism ) might argue that any basic vocabulary for a closed, comprehensive theory true of our world would have to contain both menta...

• Calligraphy I INTRODUCTION Japanese Calligraphy This hanging scroll is an example of Japanese calligraphy.

  Section of the Egyptian Book of the DeadThe Egyptian Book of the Dead was a text containing prayers, spells, and hymns, the knowledge of which was to be usedby the dead to guide and protect the soul on the hazardous journey through the afterlife. This section of one such book,dating from the early 19th Dynasty, shows the final judgment of the deceased (in this case Hu-Nefer, the royal scribe)before Osiris, the god of the dead. Hieroglyphs as well as illustrations portray the ritual of weighing t...

• Leonardo da Vinci.

  Leonardo's stylistic innovations are even more apparent in The Last Supper, in which he represented a traditional theme in an entirely new way. Instead of showing the 12 apostles as individual figures, he grouped them in dynamic compositional units of three, framing the figure of Christ, who is isolated in the center of the picture.Seated before a pale distant landscape seen through a rectangular opening in the wall, Christ—who has just announced that one of those present will betrayhim—repres...

• L'espionnage

  not change the governments mind about a law. In history a crowd always led the greatest events. The "Prise de la Bastille" in France for example. This act was a revolting act led by a crowd with a year of accumulating anger inside of them, which burst. If there were to be only one man, taking down the Bastille, he would have been stopped and put in jail therefor failing his task. When you act out as a crowd, the impact is more violent but also more influential. The crowds that would like to make...

• Cellular Radio Telephone.

  There were more than 120 million wireless subscribers in the United States in 2001, according to the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, with thenumber of new users increasing significantly each year. Forecasters and regulators did not anticipate this growth, however. Network equipment and start-up costs weresubstantial, and the cost to consumers was high. Providers had limited their networks to a small group of high-volume business users. Eventually, the providersrecognized th...

• Nueva Zelanda - geografía.

  arenas ferruginosas y minerales industriales como la bentonita, piedra pómez, piedra caliza, arcilla, dolomita, arenas de cuarzo y grava. En bloques aislados, se hanencontrado uranio y torio, aunque es posible que también existan depósitos mayores de estos minerales. Nueva Zelanda cuenta con ricos recursos energéticos; aparte de carbón tiene una meseta volcánica generadora de energía geotérmica, y cuenta además con el considerablepotencial hidroeléctrico que suponen los rápidos del país y los im...

• Himalayas - geography.

  Nepal but has eluded discovery by several expeditions. VI PEOPLE AND ECONOMY The population, settlement, and economic patterns within the Himalayas have been greatly influenced by the variations in topography and climate, which impose harshliving conditions and tend to restrict movement and communication. People living in remote, isolated valleys have generally preserved their cultural identities. However,improvements in transportation and communication, particularly satellite television progra...

• Army. I INTRODUCTION Army, military land forces of a nation, assembled, drilled, disciplined,

  disappearance for several centuries of large standing armies in Europe. A Middle Ages Feudalism was based on a concept of local defense, each baron or landowner governing land that had been given him by the king, and each lord having his ownpersonal protective forces recruited from among men who worked for him. In return, each lord and his men were pledged to annual service to the monarch and couldbe called on in special instances, as in the defense of Christendom during the Crusades. National...

• Définition & usage: ARPENT1, substantif masculin.

  compos? de 100 perches carr?es de 22 pieds de c?t? et contenant 48,400 pieds carr?s?? (BOUILLET 1859) ou ??51,0720 ares?? (Dictionnaire de l'Acad?mie Fran?aise, Compl?ments, 1842); ??l'arpent commun de la France de 42,2208 ares?? (Ibidem); ??l'arpent de Paris de 34,1887 ares?? (Ibidem et BALZAC, Correspondance, 1838, page 419); ??arpent de Gen?ve de 51,6610 ares?? (Dictionnaire de l'Acad?mie Fran?aise, Compl?ments, 1842); ??arpent m?trique ou hectare?? (BOUILLET 1859). b) Un arpent de terre labo...

• Ottawa (city, Ontario) - Geography.

  strike in November 1996. Finally, the outcome of the debate over Québec’s future within Canada will have a decisive impact on Ottawa because the National CapitalRegion includes parts of both Québec and Ontario. VII HISTORY Before European explorers arrived in Canada, the area around Ottawa was inhabited by hunters and gatherers of the Algonquian and Iroquoian ( see: Iroquoian Family) peoples. In 1613 the area was visited by Samuel de Champlain, founder of the French empire in North America. In...

• Britain: The physical background

  Northern Ireland is 8° 10' West. It is just under 600 miles (966 km.) in a straight fine from the south coast to the extreme north of mainland Britai n and about 300 miles (483 km.) across in the widest part. Owing to the numerous bays and inl ets no point in Britain is as much as 75 miles (121 km.) from tidal water. The seas surrounding the British Isles are everywhe re shallow — usually shallow waters are important because they provide excellent fishin...

• fast food

  The fast food industry also present financial advantages over other types of restaurants: it has few costs since it employs mostly unqualified and young workers, it does not spend much on advertising and brand promoting since most of the brands present on the market beneficiate from their strong image and a loyal customer base. Moreover, the menus and decorations of the stores are standardized, and this contributes to cost savings. The fast food’s industry attractiveness : The f...

• From Brown v.

  their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. The effect of this separation on their educationalopportunities was well stated by a finding in the Kansas case by a court which nevertheless felt compelled to rule against the Negro plaintiffs: “Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of thelaw; for the policy of separating...

• Devops

  Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to our first session of the DevOpS Academy. I am your host, Lawrence Muthoga and I look after Microsoft Open source business across Middle Eastern Africa and a good thing with the open source world is it runs on Dev OPS Dev OPS is the engine that fuels it and so it's only right that I step in and share with you why you should care about Dev OPS in this first session in this series of videos, we're going to be talking about. Not just why you ne...

• Song of the Open Road Leaves of Grass, 1900 Walt Whitman 1 Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me, leading wherever I choose.

  I think you are latent with unseen existences — you are so dear to me. You flagg'd walks of the cities! you strong curbs at the edges! You ferries! you planks and posts of wharves! you timber-lined sides! you distant ships! You rows of houses! you window-pierc'd façades! you roofs! You porches and entrances! you copings and iron guards! You windows whose transparent shells might expose so much! You doors and ascending steps! you arches! You gray stones of interminable pavements! you trodden cros...

• Reproduction - biology.

  E Gestation After fertilization of the egg, the resulting zygote undergoes cell division and differentiation to form the embryo. In most higher plants, the embryo is enclosed in a layerof nutritive material surrounded by a hard outer covering, forming the seed. In most lower animals the embryo, surrounded by the nutritive material of the formerovum, is enveloped by a leathery or calcareous shell and is extruded from the body of the female. Animals, such as birds, that lay their eggs before the...

• Robot.

  V IMPACT OF ROBOTS Robotic manipulators create manufactured products that are of higher quality and lower cost. But robots can cause the loss of unskilled jobs, particularly on assemblylines in factories. New jobs are created in software and sensor development, in robot installation and maintenance, and in the conversion of old factories and the designof new ones. These new jobs, however, require higher levels of skill and training. Technologically oriented societies must face the task of retra...

• Computer Security.

  might deny usage to legitimate users, and they ensure that information received from an outside source is expected and does not contain computer viruses. VII INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEMS Security software called intrusion detection systems may be used in computers to detect unusual and suspicious activity and, in some cases, stop a variety of harmfulactions by authorized or unauthorized persons. Abuse and misuse of sensitive system and application programs and data such as password, inventory,...

• Analyse Twelfth Night de William Shakespeare (en anglais)

  woman : Viola, herself in love with Orsino; and as if it was not enough, Malvolio and Sir Andrew are as well in love with Olivia and  both believe they have a chance. Illyria seems to be in a total fever. Shakespeare shows that these passions only create confusion, that one has to deal with them with a lot of measure, self-control and reason. Therefore he truly celebrates order.     In addition to love, identity is as well a very big source of disorder and confusion in Twelfth Night. Shakespeare...

• Concepts

  suggested that concept possession need not consist in knowing a definition, but in appreciating the role of a concept in thought and practice. Moreover, he claimed, a concept need not apply to things by virtue of some closed set of features captured by a definition, but rather by virtue of ‘family resemblances' among the things, a suggestion that has given rise in psychology to ‘prototype' theories of concepts. Most traditional approaches to possession conditions have been concerned with t...

• Legislative Branch.

  popularly elected parliament, composed of one or two chambers. The majority party, or a coalition of parties, agree to form a government, known as the government of the day . Executive power is exercised by a cabinet headed by a chief minister—usually called prime minister, premier, or chancellor—who is typically drawn from the membership of the legislature. Such systems are found throughout western Europe and in countries such as India that were once part of the British Empire. In systems base...

• Cairo (Egypt) - geography.

  of the city's oldest architectural monuments can be found. Old Cairo is the home of Cairo's Coptic Christian community, and the site of the Coptic Museum and a number ofCoptic churches. The irrigation of Cairo's desert periphery has allowed for the development of suburbs, such as Heliopolis, located to the northeast. Other modern suburbs are interspersedwith recently created migrant neighborhoods that accommodate the city's growing population. Industrial areas further crowd the city, restricting...

• Phoenix (city, Arizona) - geography.

  The company’s irrigation system followed the network of canals that were built there by the Hohokam some 500 years earlier. In October 1870, several settlers foundedthe site of modern Phoenix. In recognition of the former Hohokam culture, settler Darrell Duppa likened the new community to the phoenix, a mythological bird thatconsumed itself by fire every 500 years and arose anew from the ashes. Thereafter, the group adopted Phoenix as the settlement’s name. Within a short time the areawas produc...

• Portland - geography.

  In the 19th century Portland had large Chinese, Scandinavian, and Italian immigrant communities. Today, however, little remains of these early communities, and the cityhas relatively small minority populations. According to the 2000 census, whites made up 77.9 percent of the population, blacks 6.6 percent, Asians 6.3 percent, NativeAmericans 1.1 percent, and Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders 0.4 percent. People of mixed heritage or not reporting race were 7.7 percent of the population...

• Festivals and Feasts.

  The festivals of many ethnic and national groups are credited with the preservation of unique customs, folktales, costumes, and culinary skills. An interesting recentdevelopment is the merging of the arts, lore, and customs of various regions in Africa in the cultural festival known as Kwanzaa (Swahili kwanza, ”beginnings”). Introduced from Africa into the United States in 1977, this festival is celebrated with feasts and songs in the home for seven days and nights from December 26 toJanuary 1....

• Dance I INTRODUCTION Dance Archive Films/BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.

  features in its dance styles. The ordinary potential of the body can be expanded in dance, usually through long periods of specialized training. In ballet, for example, the dancer exercises to rotate,or turn out, the legs at the hips, making it possible to lift the leg high in an arabesque. In India, some dancers learn to choreograph their eyeballs and eyebrows.Costuming can extend the body's capabilities. Toe or pointe shoes, stilts, and flying harnesses are a few of the artificial aids employe...

• Encyclopedia of Philosophy: AVICENNA

  is to say, whose essence includes that mark of necessity which is lacking in all other things and which can also beexpressed as the identity in it of essence and existence. In this way, the cosmogony sketched above is given aphilosophical basis. Just as the whole system of the world comes about from the thought which the Necessary Beinghas of itself, so this being, in thinking itself at the same time thinks everything in the universe: it thinks ‘the higher(that is, heavenly) beings, each in its...

• Dinosaurs.

  protected their necks. Ankylosaurus was about 33 feet (10 meters) long. ORNITHOPODS Ornithopods were once the most numerous plant-eating dinosaurs. There were many different kinds.Over time, ornithopods developed broad beaks. These later ornithopods are called duck-billed dinosaurs.Some ornithopods were small and ran fast. Others were huge. Iquanodon, for example, was 25 feet (7.5 meters) long. PACHYCEPHALOSAURS These dinosaurs walked on two feet. They had thick, dome-shaped skulls. Scienti...

• Great Lakes - Geography.

  of 1972 and 1978, have focused on water-quality problems in the Great Lakes. The International Joint Commission on the Great Lakes, established under the BoundaryWaters Treaty, implements and oversees these agreements and has limited authority to regulate obstructions or diversions of boundary waters that would affect thenatural level or flow of lake waters. B Exotic Species The fish populations of the lakes have changed dramatically in the 20th century; changes were wrought at first by overfis...

• Helium - chemistry.

  the bends. This synthetic atmosphere is also used in medicine to relieve sufferers of respiratory difficulties because helium moves more easily than nitrogen throughconstricted respiratory passages. In surgery, beams of ionized helium from synchrocyclotron sources are proving useful in treating eye tumors, by stabilizing or evenshrinking the tumors. Such beams are also used to shrink blood-vessel malformations in the brains of patients. Helium is used in inert-gas arc welding for light metals, s...

• Geography - Geography.

  Geographers have developed a standard pattern of map symbols for identifying such cultural features as homes, factories, and churches; dams, bridges, and tunnels;railways, highways, and travel routes; and mines, farms, and grazing lands. C Analyzing Geographic Information Techniques that use mathematics or statistics to analyze data are known as quantitative methods. The use of quantitative methods enables geographers to treat a largeamount of data and a large number of variables in an objectiv...

• Bangkok - geography.

  Shipping on the Chao PhrayaThe Chao Phraya River has long been an important transportation artery for Thailand. The river connects the agricultural heartland ofcentral Thailand with the capital, Bangkok, shown here. The port of Bangkok, with its convenient location near the Gulf of Thailand, isthe country’s largest port and handles most of its international trade.Georg Gerster/Photo Researchers, Inc. Government is the largest single employer in Bangkok, but the number of jobs in commerce, constr...

• Education in Great Britain ? Education is compulsory from the age of 5 (4 in Northern Ireland) to the age of 16.

  Child ren study English, M athe matics, Science , Inf orm ation technolo gy, hist ory, Geog raphy , Mo dern foreign languag es, Art, Music, Phy sical Education a nd religio us Education.  In Great Britain pa rents ha ve a choice b et ween State schools an d In depend ent schools. State schools ar e scho ols run by th e g ov ern ment. The y a re financed b y p ublic funds: t he money com es fro m the n ational a nd local taxes .In depend ent schools , als o ca...

• theories of Common-sense reasoning

  formulas of some logical language, and that the reasoning tasks underlying this intelligence can then be accomplished by means of logical deduction. Both the idea of using logic as an underlying representation language for artificial intelligence and the emphasis on formalizing common-sense knowledge are present even in McCarthy's very early work (for example, McCarthy 1959 ), but the project receives its clearest articulation in a paper jointly authored by McCarthy and Patrick Hayes (1969 )...

• Churchill: "The Sinews of Peace" On March 5, 1946, in a

  safeguards to make it effective, these powers would naturally be confided to that world organisation. Now I come to the second danger of these two marauders which threatens the cottage, the home, and the ordinary people—namely, tyranny. We cannot be blind tothe fact that the liberties enjoyed by individual citizens throughout the British Empire are not valid in a considerable number of countries, some of which are verypowerful. In these States control is enforced upon the common people by variou...

• Chinese Music I INTRODUCTION Classical Peking Opera Of the many major forms of regional theater in China, Peking opera is by far the most famous.

  World Music TourClick on the instruments to hear music from around the world.© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. However, the Confucian beliefs about music were constantly eroded throughout Chinese history by a long tradition of popular entertainment music, favored both at thecourt and by the common folk. Although excluded from official ritual performances for several thousand years, Chinese women musicians and entertainers had a centraland formative role in this entertainment music as...

• Atlanta - geography.

  Martin Luther King, Jr., SiteThis Victorian home, the birthplace of Martin Luther King, Jr., is part of the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site in Atlanta,Georgia. The site also includes King’s gravesite and Ebenezer Baptist Church where he was pastor.Bob Krist/Corbis Notable structures and sites of interest in downtown Atlanta include the State Capitol (1889); Underground Atlanta, a subterranean marketplace with shops, bars, and cafes;City Hall (1930); and the Peachtree Center busin...

• Unemployment.

  set up to monitor the economy and provide advice to the president and Congress. Between 1945 and 1990 nine cyclical swings in unemployment occurred; all weresmaller than the 1930s depression. During this period the unemployment rate was as low as 2.9 percent (1953) and as high as 9.7 percent (1982). Because of cutbacksin the unemployment insurance program and changes in the nature of employment during the 1980s, however, only 37 percent of jobless workers received benefits in1990. Fears that the...

• Classification - biology.

  species based on the fewest number of shared changes that have occurred from generation to generation. IV HISTORY OF CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS Classification is one of the oldest sciences, but despite its age it is still a vigorous field full of new discoveries and methods. Much like other fields of science, greatthinkers have shaped the course of classification. One of the earliest classification schemes was established by Greek philosopher Aristotle, who lived in the 300s BC. Aristotle believe...

• Drawing I INTRODUCTION Drawing, delineation of form upon a surface, usually a plane, by means of lines and tints or shading.

  In the monasteries of medieval Europe, religious texts were inscribed on parchment, then embellished with initial letters, decorative borders, and miniature scenes. InRomanesque Europe, drawings served as models to be copied for such manuscript illumination and also as cartoons ( see Cartoon), or studies, for frescoes, sculpture, and other arts. Subjects were usually treated as stylized symbols of religious truths. This viewpoint was countered in the Gothic period; the change was reflected in th...

• Native American Art.

  folding, braiding or weaving, could also be sewn onto the hide. The production of decorated clothing and bags increased after contact with Europeans as a greater variety of textiles and other materials became available throughtrade. Imported glass beads inspired native women, who quickly adapted quillwork techniques for the creation of beaded apparel. European curvilinear and floraldesigns of the 19th century proved as meaningful for the native women who worked with them as they were for the non...