155 résultats pour "big"
- Hoyle, sir Fred - astronomie.
- Hoyle, sir Fred - sciences et techniques.
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O'Brother (analyse du film)
ouverte à tous les WASP, du Nord comme du Sud, désireux de défendre les valeurs qu'ils considèrent comme fondamentales de la « Nation blanche » américaine. La création du Ku Klux Klan est à l'origine une conséquence directe de la défaite des troupes confédérées sudistes contre les unionistes nordistes à la fin de la guerre de Sécession. À l'origine, il n'était qu'une association sans but politique. Son principal objectif était de faire perdurer les liens qui se sont créés durant la guerre entre...
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L'Univers (Travaux Pratiques Encadrés - Espaces pédagogiques interactifs)
Amas stellaire : groupement d'étoiles formant des nuages très lumin eux. Ils sont de deux sortes. Les amas glob ulaires, très denses , lointains et de forme sphérique , sont composés d'étoiles liées par la force de gravita tion. Dans les amas ouverts, moins denses , les étoiles sont nées simultanéme nt d'une même nébuleuse . STADES DE L'ÉVOLUTION DES ÉTOILES Géante rouge : stade d'une étoile -d'une masse de une à 10 fois celle du Soleil- en fin de v...
- Orwell: présentation de 1984
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galaxie.
l'action de leur propre gravité pour former les structures que nous observons actuellement. Voir aussi expansion de l'Univers et les dossiers astres et Univers . Complétez votre recherche en consultant : Les corrélats amas Andromède astres - Les galaxies astres - Les galaxies - Introduction astres - Les galaxies - La classification des galaxies astres - Les galaxies - La composition des galaxies astres - Les galaxies - La dynamique galactique astres - Les groupements de galaxies...
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1984 - George Orwell
about his book. The science-fiction have the advantage of to secede the author’s intentions from the reality in order to make this reality more universal. By being so straddled in his works G.O. describes caricatoonish world to impose a reflection. G.O. displays a mastery of writing because he manages to do not create a ridiculous world but rather a world which recalls something that already happen. c) The message By reading Nine...
- Le totalitarisme
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Ripken Breaks Record.
Ripken's achievement and his accompanying modesty, combined with his clean-cut image and avowed passion for the sport, have caused many in and out of baseballto hold him up as a welcome positive in a year of negatives. Attendance at major league games has dropped this season, a fact generally attributed to a backlash byfans after a players' strike ended last year's season in August and canceled the playoffs and World Series. After a tension-filled spring training in which baseball teamowners hir...
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Birds.
Birds need much less sleep than people do. One seabird, called the sooty tern, can fly for years bytaking “naps” that last only a few seconds. Most birds that live on land are active during the day and sleep at night. Owls are just the opposite.They sleep during the day and hunt at night. Birds usually sleep in shrubs, on tree branches, in holes in trees, or on the ground. Most ducks sleep onthe water. Many birds sleep while they are standing. MATING AND BREEDING Many kinds of birds have only on...
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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...
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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...
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The Undefeated Dolphins.
The Dolphins weren't seriously challenged during the remainder of the regular season. They defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 31-10; the Patriots, 37-21; the NewYork Giants, 23-13; and the Colts, 16-0. In the playoffs Miami defeated the Cleveland Browns, 20-14, and then captured the American Football Conference (AFC)championship by downing the Pittsburgh Steelers, 21-17. Miami's opponent in Super Bowl VII was the Washington Redskins. The Redskins had finished the regular season with an 11-3 r...
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Frank Zappa - Musik.
1969 Burnt Weeny Sandwich Theme from Burnt Weeny SandwichHoliday in Berlin, Full BlownLittle House I Used to Live in 1970 Weasels Ripped My Flesh Prelude to The Afternoon of ASexually Aroused Gas MaskEric Dolphy Memorial BarbecueMy Guitar Wants To Kill Your MamaOrange County Lumber Truck 1970 Chunga's Revenge Transylvania BoogieRoad LadiesTwenty Small CigarsNancy & Mary MusicChunga's RevengeSharleena 1971 Fillmore East: June 1971 Little House I Used To Live InMud SharkWhat Kind of Girl Do You Th...
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spatial, télescope - astronomie.
Les sources de rayonnement ultraviolet sont nombreuses. Parmi elles, figurent les étoiles les plus chaudes, les naines blanches récemment formées, les phénomènesénergétiques de nature explosive, telles les novae et les supernovae, l’environnement circumstellaire des jeunes étoiles, et le cœur des galaxies actives ( voir astronomie de l’ultraviolet). Le satellite international IUE (International Ultraviolet Explorer) réalisé conjointement par la NASA, l’ESA et la Grande-Bretagne, a été d’une exc...
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Jazz
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Joshua Redman
Saxophonist Joshua Redman, a graduate of Harvard University, became a fast-rising star in jazz in the 1990s.
performed a highly produced, jazz-inspired form of blues that was popular in traveling minstrel shows and vaudeville. Thisexample is from the song “St. Louis Blues,” written by American composer and trumpet player W. C. Handy in 1914 andrecorded by Smith in 1925."St. Louis Blues" performed by Bessie Smith, from The Riverside History of Classic Jazz (Cat.# Riverside RB-005) Riverside Records under master license to Fantasy, Inc. All rightsreserved./Frank DriggsCollection/Archive Photos Jazz is ro...
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It might not matter to you, but my brother was having an affair with my wife.
upon them kissing oneafternoon inthe field behind theshed behind ourhouse. Itmade mesoexcited. Ifelt asifIwere kissing someone. Ihad never kissed anyone. Iwas more excited thanifit had been me.Ourhouse wassmall. AnnaandI shared abed. That night Itold herwhat Ihad seen. Shemade mepromise nevertospeak aword about it.Ipromised her. She said, Whyshould Ibelieve you? I wanted totell her, Because whatIsaw would nolonger bemine ifItalked aboutit.Isaid, Because Iam your sister. Thank you. Can Iwatch you...
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Dark Matter - astronomy.
observed, and the measured frequency of such events has placed limits on how much dark matter can take the form of MACHOs. From the observations that have beenmade by astronomers, it is now known that MACHOs cannot be the dominant constituent of dark matter. There are simply not enough such gravitational lenses. Physicists suspect that a more exotic form of cold dark matter must exist. This form is not baryonic. Like neutrinos, this form barely interacts with ordinary matter, butis some type of...
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Amerikanischer Film.
1943 For Whom the Bell Tolls (Wem die Stunde schlägt), Sam WoodHeaven Can Wait (Ein himmlischer Sünder), Ernst Lubitsch 1944 Cover Girl (Es tanzt die Göttin), Charles VidorLaura (Laura), Otto PremingerTo Have and Have Not (Haben und Nichthaben), Howard Hawks 1945 Mildred Pierce (Solange ein Herz schlägt), Michael CurtizThe Lost Weekend (Das verlorene Wochenende), Billy WilderThe Spiral Staircase (Die Wendeltreppe), Robert Siodmak 1946 Gilda (Gilda), Charles VidorMy Darling Clementine (Tombstone/...
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Reiten: Medaillengewinner der Olympischen Sommerspiele.
1968 GBR: Derek Allhusen(Lochinvar), RichardMeade (Cornishman V),Reuben Jones (ThePoacher) USA: Michael Page (Foster),James Wolford (Kilkenny), J.Michael Plumb (Plain Sailing) AUS: Wayne Roycroft(Zhivago), Brien Cobcroft(Depeche), William Roycroft(Joburg) 1972 GBR: Richard Meade(Laurieston), MaryGordon-Watson(Cornishman V), BridgetParker (Cornish Gold) USA: Kevin Freeman (GoodMixture), Bruce Davidson(Plain Sailing), J. MichaelPlumb (Free and Easy) FRG: Harry Klugmann(Christopher Rob), Ludwi...
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Calvin Coolidge.
By 1923 President Harding was faced with a number of difficulties. A business depression, which had begun in 1922, continued. In addition, the Republican majorities inboth houses of Congress were reduced in the election of 1922, and a discontented farm bloc of Western Republican senators threatened to destroy the Senate majorityby allying with the Democrats. Finally, it was rumored that major scandals involving Harding's friends were about to break. The rumors were soon proved accurate. The dire...
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Calvin Coolidge
By 1923 President Harding was faced with a number of difficulties. A business depression, which had begun in 1922, continued. In addition, the Republican majorities inboth houses of Congress were reduced in the election of 1922, and a discontented farm bloc of Western Republican senators threatened to destroy the Senate majorityby allying with the Democrats. Finally, it was rumored that major scandals involving Harding's friends were about to break. The rumors were soon proved accurate. The dire...
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Seal (mammal) - biology.
remote lakes by swimming thousands of kilometers up rivers from the Arctic Ocean. A few other species such as ringed seals and harbor seals have been found livingyear-round in lakes and rivers near the coasts of Russia, Canada, and Alaska. IV DIET OF SEALS Most seals eat fish and sometimes squid. The leopard seal, an Antarctic species, may have the most diverse diet of all, commonly hunting penguins and other seabirds,smaller seals, as well as fish, squid, krill (small shrimplike crustaceans),...
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Neandertals.
Neandertals made stone tools by striking flakes from rock “cores.” The cores were carefully selected and prepared so that only a single blow was normally required todetach a flake. A number of relatively standardized flakes were sometimes produced from a single core. These sharp flakes served as “blanks” that were further workedand shaped into the desired tools. Suitable stone was sometimes rare, and often tools were sharpened and resharpened to make new tools, yielding a whole variety ofshapes...
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Grover Cleveland.
Americans, Roman Catholics, and Southerners, who all generally supported the Democratic Party. The statement lost Blaine any chance of getting the Irish Americanvote in New York City. The Mugwumps supported Cleveland because of Blaine’s political past. Even the Prohibition Party candidate received 25,000 votes that normallywould have gone to the Republican candidate. New York’s 36 electoral votes swung the election to Cleveland. He won the state’s vote by only about 1000 in a total vote of more...
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Grover Cleveland
Americans, Roman Catholics, and Southerners, who all generally supported the Democratic Party. The statement lost Blaine any chance of getting the Irish Americanvote in New York City. The Mugwumps supported Cleveland because of Blaine’s political past. Even the Prohibition Party candidate received 25,000 votes that normallywould have gone to the Republican candidate. New York’s 36 electoral votes swung the election to Cleveland. He won the state’s vote by only about 1000 in a total vote of more...
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Music
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World Music Tour
Click on the instruments to hear music from around the world.
Duke EllingtonAmerican composer, bandleader, and pianist Duke Ellington endures as perhaps the most important pioneer in big-bandjazz. Ellington and his orchestra shared a special interdependent relationship: Using the band as his musical workshop,Ellington derived his orchestra’s tone coloring from the unique sound qualities of the group’s individual players. Thisparticular style was later dubbed the “Ellington Effect” by jazz arranger Billy Strayhorn, who also wrote one of the band’ssignature...
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Excerpt from Our Mutual Friend - anthology.
The Podsnaps lived in a shady angle adjoining Portman Square. They were a kind of people certain to dwell in the shade, wherever they dwelt. Miss Podsnap's lifehad been, from her first appearance on this planet, altogether of a shady order; for, Mr Podsnap's young person was likely to get little good out of association withother young persons, and had therefore been restricted to companionship with not very congenial older persons, and with massive furniture. Miss Podsnap's earlyviews of life be...
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Central America - Geography.
F Animal Life Most of the animal life of Central America is similar to that of South America, but some animals have ties with North America. The marley and opossum have links withSouth America, as do the jaguar, ocelot, jaguarundi, and margay, which are members of the cat family. In contrast, the puma, gray fox, and coyote are of NorthAmerican origin. The armadillo, anteater, and sloth have ties to the south, deer to the north. The large manatee, an aquatic plant eater, survives in the isolated...
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Glacier.
covered. In spring the snow cover begins to melt in the lower reaches, exposing the ice surface. As temperatures increase, the melting moves up the glacier. Thesnowline is the highest position the melting reaches during the year. Firn is old granular snow. The firn limit may not exactly coincide with the annual snowline since insome years rapid melting leaves behind firn patches below the snowline. Some glaciers exhibit features called ice streams and icefalls. Ice streams are valley glaciers th...
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American Music
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American Music, the folk, popular, and classical music of the United States--created by American-born or American-trained composers, or originating in American
culture, or written primarily for American audiences.
The country's first permanent orchestra was the New York Philharmonic Society, founded in 1842. Among the first symphonic and operatic composers the mostprominent was William Henry Fry, who composed the first opera by an American ( Leonora, 1845). Fry is best remembered, however, for four symphonies written in the 1850s and 1860s. George F. Bristow wrote the first opera on an American theme; his Rip Van Winkle was performed in New York City in 1855. Town bands, a popular form of community mu...
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Gravitation
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Gravitation, the force of attraction between all objects that tends to pull them toward one another.
precise observations possible, and Galileo was one of the first to use a telescope to study astronomy. In 1609 Galileo observed that moons orbited the planet Jupiter, afact that could not reasonably fit into an earth-centered model of the heavens. The new heliocentric theory changed scientists' views about the earth's place in the universe and opened the way for new ideas about the forces behind planetarymotion. However, it was not until the late 17th century that Isaac Newton developed a theory...
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Gravitation - astronomy.
precise observations possible, and Galileo was one of the first to use a telescope to study astronomy. In 1609 Galileo observed that moons orbited the planet Jupiter, afact that could not reasonably fit into an earth-centered model of the heavens. The new heliocentric theory changed scientists' views about the earth's place in the universe and opened the way for new ideas about the forces behind planetarymotion. However, it was not until the late 17th century that Isaac Newton developed a theory...
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South Dakota - geography.
C1 Temperatures Average January temperatures are everywhere less than -4° C (24° F) and decrease to less than -12° C (10° F) in some northern sections. The January temperaturesin Sioux Falls range from -16° to -4° C (3° to 24° F). Nightime lows of -29° C (-20° F) occur during most winters. July averages are in the low and middle 20°s C (lowand middle 70°s F) throughout most of the state, and are somewhat lower in the Black Hills. The average temperature range in Sioux Falls in July is 17° to 30...
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South Dakota - USA History.
C1 Temperatures Average January temperatures are everywhere less than -4° C (24° F) and decrease to less than -12° C (10° F) in some northern sections. The January temperaturesin Sioux Falls range from -16° to -4° C (3° to 24° F). Nightime lows of -29° C (-20° F) occur during most winters. July averages are in the low and middle 20°s C (lowand middle 70°s F) throughout most of the state, and are somewhat lower in the Black Hills. The average temperature range in Sioux Falls in July is 17° to 30...
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National Parks and Preserves.
Some ibex raised in Italy’s 700 sq km (220 sq mi) Gran Paradiso National Park (1922) were transferred to aid herd restoration elsewhere in the country. Switzerlandreturned lynx to Swiss National Park to keep red deer populations in check. The growth of national parks also enabled many European countries to restore forests thathad given way to industrialization by the early 20th century. Africa’s wildlife was hunted heavily from the late 19th century well into the 20th century. By 1920 big-game h...
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Iowa - geography.
Okoboji, Lost Island, Silver, and West Swan lakes. In addition, reservoirs have been created by damming several smaller Iowa rivers. There are a number of largereservoirs behind dams on the Mississippi River along the Iowa state line. C Climate Iowa’s climate is characterized by warm, generally moist summers and cold winters. Temperatures vary considerably from season to season and, at times, from day today. However, monthly averages are relatively uniform throughout the state and usually vary...
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Iowa - USA History.
Okoboji, Lost Island, Silver, and West Swan lakes. In addition, reservoirs have been created by damming several smaller Iowa rivers. There are a number of largereservoirs behind dams on the Mississippi River along the Iowa state line. C Climate Iowa’s climate is characterized by warm, generally moist summers and cold winters. Temperatures vary considerably from season to season and, at times, from day today. However, monthly averages are relatively uniform throughout the state and usually vary...
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Nevada - geography.
The Truckee, Carson, and Walker rivers flow out of the Sierra Nevada, thread their way around several of the desert ranges, and also end in closed basins. The Walkerflows into Walker Lake, the Carson into Lahontan Reservoir. The major part of the Truckee’s flow is now diverted to Lahontan Reservoir, although as required by lawsome of it empties into Pyramid Lake. Because these three streams flow constantly, the lakes into which they empty never dry up. Winnemucca Lake formerly receivedoverflow w...
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Nevada - USA History.
The Truckee, Carson, and Walker rivers flow out of the Sierra Nevada, thread their way around several of the desert ranges, and also end in closed basins. The Walkerflows into Walker Lake, the Carson into Lahontan Reservoir. The major part of the Truckee’s flow is now diverted to Lahontan Reservoir, although as required by lawsome of it empties into Pyramid Lake. Because these three streams flow constantly, the lakes into which they empty never dry up. Winnemucca Lake formerly receivedoverflow w...
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United States History - U.
and improved upon the designs of Arab sailing ships and learned to mount cannons on those ships. In the 15th century they began exploring the west coast ofAfrica—bypassing Arab merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves. They also colonized the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and the Cape Verde Islands andturned them into the first European slave plantations. The European explorers were all looking for an ocean route to Asia. Christopher Columbus sailed for the monarchs of Spain in 149...
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United States History - U.
and improved upon the designs of Arab sailing ships and learned to mount cannons on those ships. In the 15th century they began exploring the west coast ofAfrica—bypassing Arab merchants to trade directly for African gold and slaves. They also colonized the Madeira Islands, the Azores, and the Cape Verde Islands andturned them into the first European slave plantations. The European explorers were all looking for an ocean route to Asia. Christopher Columbus sailed for the monarchs of Spain in 149...
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USA - Iraq War - History.
B Making the Case for War B1 “Neoconservatives” and the Bush Doctrine Long before President George W. Bush took office in 2001, elements in or close to the Republican Party had called repeatedly for firmer U.S. steps against Iraq,including a war if necessary to force a regime change. One such group authored a white paper in 1996 called A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm , which was later sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of Israel’s Likud Party. It advocated...
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U.S.-Iraq War - U.S. History.
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U.S.-Iraq War, military action begun in
B Making the Case for War B1 “Neoconservatives” and the Bush Doctrine Long before President George W. Bush took office in 2001, elements in or close to the Republican Party had called repeatedly for firmer U.S. steps against Iraq,including a war if necessary to force a regime change. One such group authored a white paper in 1996 called A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm , which was later sent to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of Israel’s Likud Party. It advocated...
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Texas - geography.
D Climate Eastern Texas has a humid subtropical climate, while a semiarid low latitude climate prevails in central areas, and an arid low latitude climate in the extreme west. Alongthe coast the climate is much milder, with fewer extremes in temperatures. Hurricanes sometimes hit the coastal areas of Texas from late July through September, andtornadoes are common in north-central Texas in April and May. D1 Temperature Summers are hot throughout the state, and temperatures exceeding 35°C (95°F)...
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Texas - USA History.
D Climate Eastern Texas has a humid subtropical climate, while a semiarid low latitude climate prevails in central areas, and an arid low latitude climate in the extreme west. Alongthe coast the climate is much milder, with fewer extremes in temperatures. Hurricanes sometimes hit the coastal areas of Texas from late July through September, andtornadoes are common in north-central Texas in April and May. D1 Temperature Summers are hot throughout the state, and temperatures exceeding 35°C (95°F)...