II ) and Copernicus ( " de revolutionibus " IV .


The established value for the tropical year , introduced by Callippus in or before 330 " was days .


Nevertheless , this system certainly precedes Ptolemy , who used it extensively about 150 .


He also compared the lengths of the tropical year ( the time it takes the Sun to return to an equinox ) and the sidereal year ( the time it takes the Sun to return to a fixed star ) , and found a slight discrepancy .


The spectra are distinct from those of all classes of chondrite meteorites , again pointing away from an asteroidal origin .


Some judge earthworm humus ( vermicompost ) to be the optimal organic manure .


Damage from " Hypera postica " , the alfalfa weevil , a serious introduced pest of forage , was substantially reduced by the introduction of natural enemies .


20 years after their introduction the population of weevils in the alfalfa area treated for alfalfa weevil in the Northeastern United States remained 75 percent down .


The egg parasite " Trichogramma " is frequently released inundatively to control harmful moths .


The spotted lady beetle ( " Coleomegilla maculata " ) is also able to feed on the eggs and larvae of the Colorado potato beetle ( " Leptinotarsa decemlineata " ) .


Several species of entomopathogenic nematode are important predators of insect and other invertebrate pests .


Upon entering the insect they move to the hemolymph where they recover from their stagnated state of development and release their bacterial symbionts .


" Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita " is a microscopic nematode that kills slugs .


Entomopathogenic nematodes have a limited shelf life because of their limited resistance to high temperature and dry conditions .


As another example , the poison hemlock moth ( " Agonopterix alstroemeriana ) " can be used to control poison hemlock ( " Conium maculatum " ) .


The eastern spruce budworm is an example of a destructive insect in fir and spruce forests .


The fungi " Cordyceps " and " Metacordyceps " are deployed against a wide spectrum of arthropods .


" Entomophaga " is effective against pests such as the green peach aphid .


The legume vine " Mucuna pruriens " is used in the countries of Benin and Vietnam as a biological control for problematic " Imperata cylindrica " grass : the vine is extremely vigorous and suppresses neighbouring plants by out-competing them for space and light .


An example is the emerald ash borer , " Agrilus planipennis " , an invasive beetle from China , which has destroyed tens of millions of ash trees in its introduced range in North America .


These have been introduced and released into the United States of America as a possible biological control of the emerald ash borer .


For example , the cane toad ( " Rhinella marina " ) was intentionally introduced to Australia to control the greyback cane beetle ( " Dermolepida albohirtum " ) , and other pests of sugar cane .


102 toads were obtained from Hawaii and bred in captivity to increase their numbers until they were released into the sugar cane fields of the tropic north in 1935 .


Similarly , the weevil " Larinus planus " was also used to try to control the Canadian thistle , but it damaged other thistles as well .


The character first appeared in " X-Treme X-Men " # 20 ( March , 2003 ) .


" Bombus bohemicus " , for example , parasitises several other species of " Bombus " , including " Bombus terrestris , Bombus lucorum " ( white-tailed bumblebee ) , and " Bombus cryptarum " .


Many species of chrysidid lay their eggs in the nests of potter and mud dauber wasps .


Other families of wasps have " cuckoo " species that parasitise related species , as for example the vespid " Polistes sulcifer " , which parasitises a related species , " Polistes dominula " .


Many semiaquatic bugs ( Heteroptera ) are known to engage in kleptoparastism of prey .


In one study , whenever the bug " Velia caprai " ( water cricket ) took prey heavier than 7.9 g , other bugs of the same species joined it and successfully ate parts of the prey .


Among opportunistic species such as the roseate tern , research has found that parent birds involved in kleptoparasitism are more successful in raising broods than non-kleptoparasitic individuals .


In falconry , humans use trained birds of prey for hunting .


One researcher saw humans chasing lions from captured prey in Waza National Park , Cameroon in 2006 .


The Soviet Union operated a nearly identical system , CHAYKA .


Testing was carried out throughout the year , including several long-distance flights as far as Brazil .


At about the same time , Motorola proposed a new system using pseudo-random pulse-chains .


This category is for states of the United States .


The highlight of his junior career was a win at Margaret River in 1973 .


Organiser and 1968 world title holder Fred Hemmings had other ideas ; with sunshine , offshore winds and television coverage he threatened to go out himself if nobody else wanted to .


For a space mission between Earth and Mars , for example , these launch windows occur every 26 months .


For example , consider a spacecraft travelling from Earth to Mars .


The term lunar transfer orbit ( LTO ) is used for the Moon .


If the solar year is defined as a tropical year , then a lunisolar calendar will give an indication of the season ; if it is taken as a sidereal year , then the calendar will predict the constellation near which the full moon may occur .


Their months are based on the regular cycle of the Moon 's phases .


The yellow and white flag of Vatican City also makes use of this emblem on the right hand side in the white half of the flag .


Abolitionists including Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass as well as slave-owners took note and others .


In 2010 Xcel Energy announced that it would test a wind farm energy storage battery based on twenty 50 " kW sodium–sulfur batteries .


The " dahu " is a legendary creature that resembles a mountain goat and is well known in France and francophone regions of Switzerland and Italy , including the Aosta Valley .


It has been adopted by other mountainous regions such as the Pyrenees .


It was a joke , according to the 1st of April tradition , April Fools ' Day .


His notable designs include the 12-engine Dornier Do X flying boat , for decades the world 's largest and most powerful airplane .


The prosecution came on the heels of the Black Death , the bubonic plague epidemic which had ravaged the city two years earlier .


There , he associated in the imperial circle with the administrator and polemicist Sossianus Hierocles and the pagan philosopher Porphyry ; he first met Constantine , and Galerius , whom he cast as villain in the persecutions .


" was criticised by Copernicus as " childish " .


According to some theoretical explanations of hypnotic responses , such as the role-playing theory of Nicholas Spanos , hypnotic subjects do not actually enter a different psychological or physiological state ; but , rather , simply acting on social pressure – and , therefore , it is easier for them to comply than to disobey .


It is claimed that sufferers of post-traumatic stress disorder and dissociative identity disorder ( DID ) are particularly suggestible .


An aviation pioneer , he designed and built the Douglas Cloudster .


He had been an early aviation enthusiast ; at the age of 16 in the fall of 1908 , he convinced his mother that he needed to witness the Fort Myer trials of the Wright Flyer .


In 1978 he joined the Socialist Party , where he has been associated with the party 's left wing .


He won the election of 14 January 1996 in the first round against former Prime Minister Aníbal Cavaco Silva and became President on 9 March .


He is also a member of the Club of Madrid , an independent non-profit organization composed of 81 democratic former presidents and Prime Ministers from 57 different countries .


Believers considered it an antidote against bewitching , as well as the plague , murrain and all infectious diseases among cattle .


No sooner was the fire kindled than a pot filled with water was afterwards sprinkled on people who had the plague , or on cattle that had the murrain , and this process was said to be followed invariably by success .


This was suggested by Bill " Tex " Henson , a story artist at the studio .


During this time , he shared a studio building with James Welling .


Canada first minted a silver dollar coin in 1935 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of George V 's reign as king .


It was sometimes called " Demeter " from 1955 to 1975 .


They are continuously changing due to solar and planetary perturbations .


In 1970 she obtained a Master of Economics at the University of Geneva ; and was an assistant at the university from 1970 to 1972 .


The reimagined " Battlestar Galactica " TV series also used this device .


Composer Lalo Schifrin wrote several distinctive pieces for the series .


Twelve episodes were also released on Laserdisc .


On October 6 , 2015 , CBS Home Entertainment released a repackaged version of the complete series set , at a lower price .


The first such visitation began in 1530 , and the last was carried out in 1700 , although no new commissions to carry out visitations were made after the accession of William III in 1689 .


Ermine represents the fur of the stoat , a type of weasel , in its white winter coat , when it is called an ermine .


The Low Countries were great centres of heraldry in medieval times .


The Soviet Union was the first state to use socialist heraldry , beginning at its creation in 1922 .


The style became more widespread after World War II , when many other communist states were established .


Heraldry aficionados participate in the Society for Creative Anachronism , medieval revivals , micronations and other related projects .


For example , some heraldic symbols issued by the United States Army Institute of Heraldry incorporate symbols such as guns , airplanes , or locomotives .


Rainer Schaller , the festival 's organizer and chief executive officer , later said the festival would not continue in future .


His students have included , among others , Michel Majerus .


In Great Britain , the term was originally used for those who died in the war , and often implicitly referred to upper-class casualties who were perceived to have died disproportionately , robbing the country of a future elite .


Many felt that " the flower of youth and the best manhood of the peoples [ had ] been mowed down , " for example such notable casualties as the poets Isaac Rosenberg , Rupert Brooke , Edward Thomas and Wilfred Owen , composer George Butterworth and physicist Henry Moseley .


It is categorized as an S-type asteroid consisting of mainly of iron - and magnesium-silicates .


Perhaps the best-known and most impressive example of this line of research is the work by Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon .


However , already in 1958 , John McCarthy proposed the advice taker , to represent information in formal logic and to derive answers to questions using automated theorem-proving .


In 1960 , Peter Cathcart Wason conducted an experiment in which participants first viewed three numbers and then created a hypothesis that proposed a rule that could have been used to create that triplet of numbers .


Mental set was first articulated by Abraham Luchins in the 1940 s and demonstrated in his well-known water jug experiments .


This was again demonstrated in Norman Maier 's 1931 experiment , which challenged participants to solve a problem by using a household object ( pliers ) in an unconventional manner .


In a 1962 research report , Douglas Engelbart linked collective intelligence to organizational effectiveness , and predicted that pro-actively ' augmenting human intellect ' would yield a multiplier effect in group problem solving : " Three people working together in this augmented mode [ would ] seem to be more than three times as effective in solving a complex problem as is one augmented person working alone " .


Isagoras being the annual archon at Athens " ; that is , 508 / 507 " BC ( the ancient calendars split years over modern ones ) .


These were often depicted by the same artists , and especially popular in Northern Renaissance art .


The story of Esther lay somewhere between these two extremes .


The academic dress of the former University of Wales was designed for the first graduations in 1893 , and has as its main identifying feature a faculty colour scheme involving ' shot silks ' .


The European Union adopts legislation through a variety of legislative procedures .


The film features music by Randy Newman , was produced by Bonnie Arnold and Ralph Guggenheim , and was executive-produced by Steve Jobs and Edwin Catmull .


It features the voices of Tom Hanks , Tim Allen , Don Rickles , Wallace Shawn , John Ratzenberger , Jim Varney , Annie Potts , R. Lee Ermey , John Morris , Laurie Metcalf , and Erik von Detten .


Marketing consultant Al Ries reflected on the promotion : " This will be a killer deal .


This combo-edition was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on March 23 , 2010 , along with its sequel .


On Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 100 % based on 89 reviews , with an average rating of 9.01 / 10 .


The film was equally well received by critics , many of whom thought it was even better than the first installment , earning a rare 100 % approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes , based on 163 reviews .


It also grossed more than $ 1 " billion worldwide , making it the highest-grossing animated film until the release of 2013 's " Frozen " .


In April 2008 , the " Disney Wonder " cruise ship launched " Toy Story : The Musical " shows on its cruises .


Recent windstorm activity , in the United States in particular , has focused interest in measures that can be used to lower the likelihood of damage to structures .


The " elixir of life " , also known as " elixir of immortality " and sometimes equated with the name philosopher 's stone , is a potion that supposedly grants the drinker eternal life and / or eternal youth .


Similarities have been noted with a folktale from the Ryukyu Islands , in which the moon god decides to give man the water of life ( ) , and serpents the water of death ( sïnimizï ) .


It was not until the sexual revolution of the late 1960 s and early 1970 s that it started to achieve widespread acceptance , and Jane Birkin .


" " ) They support absurd proposals like paying civil servants with " corticoles " ( vouchers from the general store El Corte Inglés redeemable for school supplies ) , building in flower pots , and promising to corrupt themselves as much as possible .


All categorization amounts to forming somewhat arbitrary distinctions where relating to intention in the case of psychosis , where the intention ( s ) is / are more likely than not to be irrational .


Rabbi Yiḥyah Qafeh sharply opposed these " minhagim " being of the opinion that , in addition to the stupidity of the matter , they are Biblically forbidden because of " darchei haEmori " .


The first use of the expression is attributed to Sir William Muir in 1858 .


Commentators wrote that it meant " the cranes " .


and attributed to Urwah ibn Zubayr ( d .


It prevents the inhalation of wind-borne sand by its wearers in the Sahara region .


It dates from 35,000 BCE and consists of 29 distinct notches that were deliberately cut into a baboon 's fibula .


AD 1000 ) ; the equatorium and universal latitude-independent astrolabe by Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī ( c .


Scottish mathematician and physicist John Napier discovered that the multiplication and division of numbers could be performed by the addition and subtraction , respectively , of the logarithms of those numbers .


Edmund Gunter built a calculating device with a single logarithmic scale at the University of Oxford .


William Oughtred greatly improved this in 1630 with his circular slide rule .


Punched cards were preceded by punch bands , as in the machine proposed by Basile Bouchon .


Von Neumann acknowledged that the central concept of the modern computer was due to this paper .


The engineering design and construction was the work of Harold Keen of the British Tabulating Machine Company .


The term digital was first suggested by George Robert Stibitz and refers to where a signal , such as a voltage , is not used to directly represent a value ( as it would be in an analog computer ) , but to encode it .


While working at the research station in Dollis Hill in the 1930 s , he began to explore the possible use of electronics for the telephone exchange .


The theoretical basis for the stored-program computer had been proposed by Alan Turing in his 1936 paper .


At the University of Manchester , a team under the leadership of Tom Kilburn designed and built a machine using the newly developed transistors instead of valves .


The first working integrated circuits were invented by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce at Fairchild Semiconductor .


It had one or two 8 " floppy disk drives , a 32-character plasma display , 80-column graphical thermal printer , 48 Kbytes of RAM , and BASIC language .


Based upon its spectrum , this is classified as a stony S-type asteroid .


In 1993 , the crown was subjected to extensive scientific analysis performed by the University of Milan using X-ray fluorescence ( XRF ) analysis and radiocarbon dating .


Beyond just the farm contractors mentioned above , these types of companies commonly considered part of the term include Cargill , Monsanto , and DuPont Pioneer among others .


In the 1970 s , similar laws were passed in Iowa , Minnesota , Missouri , South Dakota and Wisconsin .


In 1982 , after failure to pass an anti–corporate farming law , the citizens of Nebraska enacted by initiative a similar amendment into their state constitution .


Owned by Entercom , it broadcasts an alternative rock format branded as " FM 101.9 " .


In the United States a longer duty cycle is used , 50 % for battery-powered buoys ( 20 seconds on , 20 seconds off ) and 75 % for on-shore beacons .


His family originally came from the Alsace region , before his grandfather moved to Paris .


m culture and leisure venue in Bilbao , opened in 2010 .


In 2019 a small companion was discovered .


She was also influenced by the real-life journalist Nellie Bly .


This theme became particularly pronounced in the 1950 s and 1960 s Silver Age comic books .


At the same time he commanded a pontoon brigade in Kavajë ( 1966&ndash ; 1971 ) .


He returned to public life in December 1991 when he was appointed Minister of Defense in Vilson Ahmeti 's technocratic government .


She was named after evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson .


She was the mother of Akhenaten and grandmother of Tutankhamun .


The first prototype made its maiden flight from Boeing Field , Seattle on 21 September 1942 .


Five General Electric analog computers ( one dedicated to each sight ) increased the weapons ' accuracy by compensating for factors such as airspeed , lead , gravity , temperature and humidity .


The aircraft crashed in the foothills of Sikhote-Alin mountain range east of Khabarovsk after the crew bailed out .


This asteroid shares a mean-motion resonance with the planets Jupiter and Saturn .


She is depicted shaking two sistra before Taweret , Thoth , and Nut .


It is very popular in Mexico , particularly in the central and southern parts of the country .


She was created by Paul Levitz and Mike Grell .


A Big Blue Book range was also published .


Other writers who recall reading the series in their youth include Saul Bellow , Harlan Ellison , Jack Conroy , Ralph Ellison , William S. Burroughs and Studs Terkel .


Demand for existing titles remained steady throughout the Depression although only about 300 new titles would be released during the 1930 s , the bulk appearing prior to 1932 .


She made five comedy films opposite singer Roy Black .


Horses and humans interact in a wide variety of sport competitions and non-competitive recreational pursuits , as well as in working activities such as police work , agriculture , entertainment , and therapy .


Horses were historically used in warfare , from which a wide variety of riding and driving techniques developed , using many different styles of equipment and methods of control .


The size of horses varies by breed , but also is influenced by nutrition .


However , there are no " albino " horses , defined as having both pink skin and red eyes .


Horses have an advanced sense of taste , which allows them to sort through fodder and choose what they would most like to eat , and their prehensile lips can easily sort even small grains .


Well-known draft breeds include the Belgian and the Clydesdale .


Others , such as the Shire , are slower and more powerful , bred to plow fields with heavy , clay-based soils .


Strictly speaking , the term " warm blood " refers to any cross between cold-blooded and hot-blooded breeds .


This condition differs from narcolepsy , although horses may also suffer from that disorder .


The extra toe on the front feet soon disappeared with the " Mesohippus " , which lived 32 to 37 " million years ago .


Only two never-domesticated subspecies , the tarpan and the Przewalski 's horse , survived into recorded history and only the latter survives today .


A related hybrid , a hinny , is a cross between a stallion and a jenny ( female donkey ) .


With rare exceptions , most hybrids are sterile and cannot reproduce .


The earliest archaeological evidence for the domestication of the horse comes from sites in Ukraine and Kazakhstan , dating to approximately 3500 – 4000 BC .


In a 2004 " poll " conducted by Animal Planet , more than 50,000 viewers from 73 countries voted for the horse as the world 's 4th favorite animal .


Many horses are also driven , which requires a harness , bridle , and some type of vehicle .


Examples of these sports of partnership between human and horse include jousting , in which the main goal is for one rider to unseat the other , and buzkashi , a team game played throughout Central Asia , the aim being to capture a goat carcass while on horseback .


In agriculture , less fossil fuel is used and increased environmental conservation occurs over time with the use of draft animals such as horses .


The first archaeological evidence of horses used in warfare dates to between 4000 and 3000 BC , and the use of horses in warfare was widespread by the end of the Bronze Age .


Horses are grazing animals , and their major source of nutrients is good-quality forage from hay or pasture .


Sometimes , concentrated feed such as grain is fed in addition to pasture or hay , especially when the animal is very active .


The other speakers were Harriet Law , Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh .


The grave lies in a north-east section , off the main paths , and is not readily accessible , but visible between graves on the east side of the main central-north path , behind George Eliot 's grave .


One of the flight 's witnesses that day was President George Washington , and the future presidents John Adams , Thomas Jefferson , James Madison , and James Monroe were also present .


It was also the emblem of Diana / Artemis , and hence represented virginity .


The crescent symbol is primarily used to represent the Moon , not necessarily in a particular lunar phase .


When a sudden plague spreads , necessitating quarantine , the questing party escape the city so as to continue their journey .


The name was chosen to mark the end of the Crimean War .


Common cooking techniques include stewing , frying , pot-roasting , braising and smoking .


In 1821 he became the first surveyor of the Guardian Assurance Company , a post he held until his death .


The same year , he produced " The Shop Girl " .


His longtime live-in companion , theatre critic Charles Dillingham , also became a well-known producer .


The upper classes wore hanbok of closely woven ramie cloth or other high-grade lightweight materials in warm weather and of plain and patterned silks the rest of the year .


It has also been worn by international celebrities , such as Britney Spears and Jessica Alba , and athletes , such as tennis player Venus Williams and football player Hines Ward .


They built hillforts , fortified hilltop towns and oppida , including Numantia .


Some were continuously inhabited until the late Iron Age .


During the 10th - 11th centuries , some of the hillforts became military fortresses with strong fortifications ( like hillforts in Tērvete , Talsi , Mežotne ) .


In Södermanland there are 300 , in Uppland 150 , Östergötland 130 , and 90 to 100 in each of Bohuslän and Gotland .


She is also noted for the invention of a constructed language known as " Lingua Ignota " .


In space , the minor planet 898 Hildegard is named for her .


The plant genus " Hildegardia " is named after her because of her contributions to herbal medicine .


Measurement of carbon isotopic ratios can be used for detection of adulteration of honey .


It is the reciprocal cross to the more common mule , which is the product of a male donkey ( a jack ) and a female horse ( a mare ) .


Namely , in China , in 1981 , a hinny mare proved fertile with a donkey sire .


In Morocco , in 2002 , a mule mare bred to a donkey sire produced a male foal .


The game 's extensively revised second edition was published in 2003 as " HeroQuest " .


Thus the adjective " cervical " may refer either to the neck ( as in " cervical vertebrae " or " cervical lymph nodes " ) or to the uterine cervix ( as in " cervical cap " or " cervical cancer " ) .


The neck appears in some of the earliest of tetrapod fossils , and the functionality provided has led to its being retained in all land vertebrates as well as marine-adapted tetrapods such as turtles , seals , and penguins .


only two recipients , Steve Martin and Neil Simon , are known as humorists , being humorous playwrights .


From November 2016 to November 2017 six Philippine Navy pilots were be trained to fly the aircraft at Tokushima Airport .


James Bidgood and Arthur Tress were also very important pioneers in the 1960 s , radically moving homoerotic photography away from simple documentary and into areas that were more akin to fine-art surrealism .


More recently , lesbian homoeroticism has flowered in photography and the writing of authors such as Patrick Califia and Jeanette Winterson .


In the east , especially Japan , lesbianism is the subject of the manga subgenre yuri .


Therefore , fracture of the bone may not only lead to lesion of the radial nerve , but also haematoma of the internal structures of the arm .


When the arm is fractured this may refer to a fracture of the humerus bone .


The liberal Free Democratic Party improved its vote and gained representation .


It is powered by a single Turbomeca Astazou turbine engine and was the first helicopter to feature a fenestron tail instead of a conventional tail rotor .


The type was also frequently used to perform airborne patrols in Northern Ireland .


In Scotland , it is used as fertiliser in lazybeds or " feannagan " .


A perhaps less serious potential problem with seaweed is its salt content .


The first significant evidence to support this datum came from the landmark excavations at Timnah led by George L. Kelm and Amihai Mazar .


His elder brother was the painter Pietro Lorenzetti .


His work , although more naturalistic , shows the influence of Simone Martini .


His presence was documented in Florence up until 1321 .


He would return there after spending a number of years in Siena .


Like his brother , he is believed to have died of bubonic plague in 1348 .


The texts on curse tablets are typically addressed to infernal or liminal gods such as Pluto , Charon , Hecate , and Persephone , sometimes via the mediation of a dead person ( probably the corpse in whose grave the tablet was deposited ) .


Of those tablets , 220 were located in Attica .


The first set of curse tablets to be discovered came from the city of Selinus in Sicily .


The first known natural satellite was the Moon , but it was considered a " planet " until Copernicus ' introduction of " De revolutionibus orbium coelestium " in 1543 .


Until the discovery of the Galilean satellites in 1610 there was no opportunity for referring to such objects as a class .


The natural satellites orbiting relatively close to the planet on prograde , uninclined circular orbits ( " regular " satellites ) are generally thought to have been formed out of the same collapsing region of the protoplanetary disk that created its primary .


Triton is another exception ; although large and in a close , circular orbit , its motion is retrograde and it is thought to be a captured dwarf planet .


Some , such as 90 Antiope , are double asteroids with two comparably sized components .


Among the identified dwarf planets , Ceres has no known natural satellites .


In the United Kingdom ( excluding Scotland ) and Ireland , the first degree course normally lasts three years , but nomenclature varies : 19th - century and later universities usually distinguish between arts and sciences subjects by awarding either a B.A. or B.Sc. degree .


Alexander Graham Bell considered the invention of the hydroplane ( now regarded as a distinct type , but also employing lift ) a very significant achievement , and after reading the article began to sketch concepts of what is now called a hydrofoil boat .


Using Renault engines , a top speed of was achieved , accelerating rapidly , taking waves without difficulty , steering well and showing good stability .


During the same period the Soviet Union experimented extensively with hydrofoils , constructing hydrofoil river boats and ferries with streamlined designs during the cold war period and into the 1980 s .


Three similar boats were built for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force .


Soviet-built Voskhods are one of the most successful passenger hydrofoil designs .


The character was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster .


He has his hand amputated to prevent the cancer 's spread , only to learn it has already metastasized and his condition is terminal .


In their artistry and experiments with three-dimensional and spatial arrangements , the brothers foreshadowed the art of the Renaissance .


His work suggests the influence of Duccio ( in whose studio he may have worked , possibly alongside Simone Martini ) , Giotto , and Giovanni Pisano .


It was in the past sought by alchemists in connection with the elixir of life and the philosopher 's stone , a mythical substance which would enable the transmutation of common metals into gold .


The New College of the Humanities also launched a new liberal education programme .


The college became Keele University in 1962 and continues to reflect many features of the liberal arts college model .


Its name means " male water snake " , as opposed to Hydra , a much larger constellation that represents a female water snake .


The brightest star is the 2.8 - magnitude Beta Hydri , also the closest reasonably bright star to the south celestial pole .


Pulsating between magnitude 3.26 and 3.33 , Gamma Hydri is a variable red giant 60 times the diameter of our Sun .


Lying near it is VW Hydri , one of the brightest dwarf novae in the heavens .


The official constellation boundaries , as set by Eugène Delporte in 1930 , are defined by a polygon of 12 segments .


A line drawn between the long axis of the Southern Cross to Beta Hydri and then extended 4.5 times will mark a point due south .


The spectrum of this star matches a stellar classification of G2 " IV , with the luminosity class of ' IV ' indicating this is a subgiant star .


It is a close binary system that consists of a white dwarf and another star , the former drawing off matter from the latter into a bright accretion disk .


It was very likely to have been a faint comet .


The charts below show the syllabary as arranged by Samuel Worcester along with his commonly used transliterations .


Flybuys is the largest loyalty program in both Australia and New Zealand .


The books provide instructions for situations like landing a plane and surviving a shark attack .


Lepidopterans undergo a four-stage life cycle : egg ; larva or caterpillar ; pupa or chrysalis ; and imago ( plural : imagines ) / adult and show many variations of the basic body structure , which give these animals advantages for diverse lifestyles and environments .


Their life cycle normally consists of an egg , a larva , a pupa , and an imago or adult .


g. , " Tineola bisselliella " , the common clothes moth ) .


Some lycaenid species such as " Phengaris rebeli " are social parasites of " Myrmica " ants nests .


By maintaining a constant angular relationship to a bright celestial light , such as the Moon , they can fly in a straight line .


Some butterflies that migrate include the mourning cloak , painted lady , American lady , red admiral , and the common buckeye .


In Costa Rica and Panama , the first population movements may begin in July and early August and depending on the year , may be very massive , continuing unabated for as long as five months .


An example is that of the polka-dot wasp moth ( " Syntomeida epilais " ) , which produces sounds with a frequency above that normally detectable by humans ( about 20 " kHz ) .


The pollen is transferred on appendages on the adults , which fly to the next flower to feed and unwittingly deposit the pollen on the stigma of the next flower , where the pollen germinates and fertilizes the seeds .


Most hawk moths are nocturnal or crepuscular , so moth-pollinated flowers ( e.g. , " Silene latifolia " ) tend to be white , night-opening , large , and showy with tubular corollae and a strong , sweet scent produced in the evening , night , or early morning .


Other moths ( e.g. , noctuids , geometrids , pyralids ) fly slowly and settle on the flower .


The earliest described lepidopteran taxon is " Archaeolepis mane " , a primitive moth-like species from the Jurassic , dated back to around , and known only from three wings found in Dorset , UK .


The skull-like marking on the thorax of the death 's - head hawkmoth has helped these moths , particularly " A. atropos " , earn a negative reputation , such as associations with the supernatural and evil .


The butterfly was sometimes depicted with the maw of a jaguar and some species were considered to be the reincarnations of the souls of dead warriors .


Peridroma saucia " ( variegated cutworms ) are described as one of the most damaging pests to gardens , with the ability to destroy entire gardens and fields in a matter of days .


A number of wild moths such as " Bombyx mandarina " , and " Antheraea " species , besides others , provide commercially important silks .


These hairs have also been known to cause keratoconjunctivitis .


It was discovered in December 1985 by the " Voyager 2 " spacecraft .


The 1970 s Rudolph stories were written and drawn by Sheldon Mayer .


It is a pluricentric language spoken principally in Nigeria and Benin , with communities in Sierra Leone , Liberia , other parts of Africa , the Americas , and Europe .


She holds a Ph.D. in communications from Case Western Reserve University , and is a visiting professor of law at Liberty University .


During the negotiations that preceded the Peloponnesian War , he did his best to prevent , or at least to postpone , the inevitable struggle , but was overruled by the war party .


This configuration , with the engine directly driving a pump , was first used by Thomas Newcomen around 1705 to remove water from mines in Cornwall .


The efficiency of the engines was improved by engineers including James Watt , who added a separate condenser ; Jonathan Hornblower and Arthur Woolf , who compounded the cylinders ; and William McNaught , who devised a method of compounding an existing engine .


Engineers such as Arthur Woolf were trying to tackle an engineering problem with an imperfect understanding of the physics .


As legate to Quintus Mucius Scaevola , he attempted to protect the inhabitants of Asia from extortion by the equites , which provoked them to raise the accusation of extortion from those provincials .


as a senior partner of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus .


Subsequently , he served as legate to Quintus Mucius Scaevola , governor of Asia .


He retired to Mytilene , and afterwards to Smyrna , where he spent the rest of his life ( possibly as an act of defiance against his prosecutors : he was welcomed with honour into the very city for which he was prosecuted as allegedly looting ) , and where Cicero visited him as late as the year 78 BC .


From April 2009 he was a council member of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation .


His influence on the historiography of Athens was considerable , lasting until the time of Eratosthenes ( 3rd century BC ) .


Lactose makes up around 2 – 8 % of milk ( by weight ) .


Dairy products such as yogurt and cheese contain very little lactose , as the bacteria used to make them consume lactose during the manufacturing process .


In many of these areas , milk from mammals such as cattle , goats , and sheep is used as a large source of food .


Lactose was identified as a sugar in 1780 by Carl Wilhelm Scheele .


In 1856 , Louis Pasteur named galactose " lactose " .


In 1860 , Marcellin Berthelot renamed it " galactose " , and transferred the name " lactose " to what is now called lactose .


The poet Catullus called it " the best of days " .


A public banquet followed " ( convivium publicum ) " .


They bathed early , and those with means sacrificed a suckling pig , a traditional offering to an earth deity .


Caligula extended official observances to five .


These theorists were highly influential , both on the military justification for an independent air force ( such as the Royal Air Force ) and in influencing political thoughts on a future war as exemplified by Stanley Baldwin 's 1932 comment that " the bomber will always get through " .


When such attacks were tried in the 1930 s - in the Spanish Civil War and the Second Sino-Japanese War - they were ineffective .


Commentators observed the failures and some air forces , such as the Luftwaffe , concentrated their efforts upon direct support of the troops .


By the end of the war , the force had aircraft that could reach Berlin , but these were never used .


In strikes over Yemen in over a six-month period , sixty tons of bombs were dropped in over 1,200 hours of flying .


He later married Rose Soady who was also his business manager , a most recognisable model , and the printer for most of his etchings .


By the 1970 s , he had semi-retired to the Canary Islands .


As the head of his household , he also had to look after his sister or half-sister Elpinice .


He was President of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 1876 - 79 .


" Livebearers " are aquarium fish that retain the eggs inside the body and give birth to live , free-swimming young .


Among aquarium fish , livebearers are nearly all members of the family Poeciliidae and include guppies , mollies , platies and swordtails .


When the observational form of the calendar was in use , whether or not an embolismic month was announced after the " last month " ( Adar ) depended on ' aviv [ i.e. , the ripeness of barley ] , fruits of trees , and the equinox .


If this drift of the reference meridian is traced back to the mid-4 th century , the traditional date of the introduction of the fixed calendar , then it is found to correspond to a longitude midway between the Nile and the end of the Euphrates .


The basic traditional ingredients for " caldo verde " use collard greens ( or alternatively other leafy greens such as kale or mustard greens ) , potatoes , olive oil , black pepper and salt .


Some recipes add meat , such as ham hock , making it similar to Italo-American wedding soup .


He was wounded and taken prisoner by Antigonus , who pardoned him and appointed him superintendent of the asphalt beds in the Dead Sea .


Patxaran is made by soaking sloe fruits , collected from the blackthorn shrub , along with a few coffee beans and a cinnamon pod in anisette , for one to eight months .


Profiat Duran published an influential grammar in 1403 .


" TV Guide " ranked the original TV series # 5 in their 2013 list of the 60 greatest shows of all time and # 4 in their list of the 60 greatest dramas .


James Earl Jones provided opening and closing narrations .


In December 2012 , it was reported that Bryan Singer was developing and executive producing a fourth series television series for CBS Television Studios .


In February 2016 , it was reported that Ken Levine would write and direct the pilot episode of the revival series .


It starred Dan Aykroyd , Albert Brooks , John Lithgow , and the late Vic Morrow and Scatman Crothers .


John Landis directed the prologue and the first segment , Steven Spielberg directed the second , Joe Dante the third , and George Miller directed the final segment .


It was discovered by Robert Luther on 15 September 1857 from Düsseldorf .


In Biblical Hebrew , each vowel had three forms : short , long and interrupted ( " ) .


Named in honour of his patron , the emperor Tiberius , the city later became a centre of rabbinic learning .


A. N. Sherwin-White re-examined the relevant legal texts and concluded that trials were generally based on the location of the alleged crimes , but that there was a possibility of referral to a province of origin in special cases .


Before 1987 , a limited edition Henry Moore sculpture accompanied the monetary prize .


Johann Martin Augustin Scholz was his pupil .


It has been found in Dominica near its sulfur springs at the southern end of the island along the west coast .


Women are often characterized as preferring story-driven games or constructive games like " The Sims " or " Civilization " , but this is not universally true .


One of the earliest attempts to broaden the market to include women could be seen in Sega 's The decision to use strong female characters in important roles , however , is often met with skepticism by marketers concerned with sales .


Activism and specifically female-targeted LAN parties in Scandinavia have helped boost female game playing .


FedEx and others are investing in hybrid delivery vehicles - particularly for city use where hybrid technology may pay off first .


UPS currently has two trucks in service using this technology .


Newer hybrid ship-propulsion schemes include large towing kites manufactured by companies such as SkySails .


In the theology of Søren Kierkegaard , it refers to a being with total free will who is in a constant state of spiritual fear in the face of their unlimited freedom .


In this environment , many things are made of watermelon sugar ( though the inhabitants also use pine wood and stone for building material and fuel made from trout oil ) .


Although " alheira " derives from " alho " ( garlic ) and was once used to describe any sausage seasoned with it , not all present-day alheiras contain garlic , although it is still a common ingredient .


Instead , the multitrack recordings were sent in January 1986 to Michael Wagener , who finished the album 's mixing .


Music journalist Martin Popoff also ranked it the best heavy metal album .


" Total Guitar " ranked the main riff of the title track at number 7 among the top 20 guitar riffs .


After the performance of September 26 in Stockholm , the band 's bus rolled over on a stretch of icy road the following morning .


The analysis of limiting business factors is part of the program evaluation and review technique , critical path analysis , and theory of constraints as presented in the novel " The Goal " .


Exceptions occur in " un-glaciated " Siberia and Alaska where the present depth of permafrost is a relic of climatic conditions during glacial ages where winters were up to colder than those of today .


Alpine permafrost in the Andes has not been mapped .


In North America , only an extremely narrow belt of permafrost existed south of the ice sheet at about the latitude of New Jersey through southern Iowa and northern Missouri , but permafrost was more extensive in the drier western regions where it extended to the southern border of Idaho and Oregon .


In the southern hemisphere , there is some evidence for former permafrost from this period in central Otago and Argentine Patagonia , but was probably discontinuous , and is related to the tundra .


Alpine permafrost also occurred in the Drakensberg during glacial maxima above about .


Formation of permafrost has significant consequences for ecological systems , primarily due to constraints imposed upon rooting zones , but also due to limitations on den and burrow geometries for fauna requiring subsurface homes .


A hypothesis promoted by Sergey Zimov is that the reduction of herds of large herbivores has increased the ratio of energy emission and energy absorption tundra ( energy balance ) in a manner that increases the tendency for net thawing of permafrost .


In Yukon , the zone of continuous permafrost might have moved poleward since 1899 , but accurate records only go back 30 years .


A 2016 outbreak of anthrax in the Yamal Peninsula is believed to be due to thawing permafrost .


Both viruses are still infective , as seen by their ability to infect Acanthamoeba , a genus of amoebas .


It was discovered on 19 September 1857 by Hermann Goldschmidt from his balcony in Paris .


In addition to its unusual title , this collection of thirteen short stories and essays is notable also for having a division three quarters of the way down the page , above which appear the stories , below which appears an essay about Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge .


Filming was done almost entirely in Argentina .


It is restricted to notable dog characters from the world of fiction .


The orbit of this asteroid has close to a 2:1 commensurability with the orbit of Jupiter .


The philologist and author J. R. R. Tolkien created a number of constructed languages , including languages devised for fictional settings .


In 1931 , he held a lecture about his passion for constructed languages , titled " A Secret Vice " .


It is composed of articles written before the publication of " The Silmarillion " .


It has stations in France , Germany , Egypt , Finland , Norway , Sweden , Switzerland , among others .


In the " Dungeons & Dragons " role-playing game , an " adventure " or " module " is a guide for managing player knowledge and activities within a specific scenario .


The term " adventure " is currently used by the game 's publisher Wizards of the Coast .


The " narwhal " or " narwhale " ( " Monodon monoceros " ) is a medium-sized toothed whale that possesses a large " tusk " from a protruding canine tooth .


It lives year-round in the Arctic waters around Greenland , Canada , and Russia .


It is one of two living species of whale in the family Monodontidae , along with the beluga whale .


The narwhal was one of many species described by Carl Linnaeus in his publication " Systema Naturae " in 1758 .


Like the beluga , narwhals are medium-sized whales .


In winter , it feeds on benthic prey , mostly flatfish , under dense pack ice .


During summer population counts along different coastal inlets of Baffin Island , calf numbers varied from 0.05 % to 5 % of the total numbering from 10,000 to 35,000 narwhals , indicating that higher calf counts may reflect calving and nursery habitats in favorable inlets .


Entrapment can affect as many as 600 individuals , most occurring in narwhal wintering areas such as Disko Bay .


In 2002 there was an increase in narwhal catches by hunters in Siorapaluk that did not appear to be associated with increased effort , implying that climate change may be making the narwhal more vulnerable to harvesting .


It stars Winona Ryder , Christian Slater , Shannen Doherty , Lisanne Falk , Kim Walker , and Penelope Milford .


The film 's electronic score was composed and performed by David Newman and a soundtrack CD was subsequently released .


On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 93 % based on contemporary and retrospective reviews from 57 critic , with an average rating of 7.76 / 10 .


Much of the language made its way into the popular vernacular and the film is among the most cited in the " Oxford English Dictionary " as a result .


Original star Shannen Doherty guest-starred in the pilot .


Selma Blair has a recurring role in the series .


One estimate is a peak rate of over one hundred thousand meteors an hour , but another , done as the storm abated , estimated in excess of two hundred thousand meteors during the 9 hours of storm , over the entire region of North America east of the Rocky Mountains .


Recently , Peter Jenniskens has argued that most of our short-period meteor showers are not from the normal water vapor drag of active comets , but the product of infrequent disintegrations , when large chunks break off a mostly dormant comet .


For example , the orbits of some repeating comets , and meteoroids leaving them , are in resonant orbits with Jupiter or one of the other large planets " – so many revolutions of one will equal another number of revolutions of the other .


The combined train 43 - 52 next passed Belleville station .


Train 43 - 52 had barely reached the next station , Ménilmontant , when the fire grew out of control and the crew fled for their lives .


Disoriented by the smoke and far from the exit , many people wandered the wrong way until they succumbed to asphyxia .


Newer Thales 300 " kW transmitters could use amplitude and phase-shift keying ( APSK ) , the design successor partially based on PSK modulation ) .


This was partly because bassist Cliff Burton introduced the basics of music theory to the rest of the band and had more input in the songwriting .


It is the last album to feature songwriting contributions from former lead guitarist Dave Mustaine , and the first to feature contributions from his replacement , Kirk Hammett .


The song discouraged the " eye for an eye " approach , and its lyrical themes focused on nuclear warfare and Armageddon .


" Spin " listed it as a thrash metal essential , declaring it " the thrashiest thrash ever " .


The question that puzzled Heinrich Ewald ( " Gesch .


Formerly , all banknotes were printed in the Soviet Union .


Modern tögrög banknotes are generally printed in the United Kingdom .


He received his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1990 .


The recording of the album was troubled , however , and , during production , the band frequently came into conflict with their new producer , Bob Rock .


The song " Do n't Tread on Me " was also issued to rock radio shortly after the album 's release but did not receive a commercial single release .


The band based its claim on a section of the California Labor Code that allows employees to be released from a personal services contract after seven years .


Willy Messerschmitt designed the small aircraft with a cockpit placed far back along the fuselage just in front of its unique cross-shaped tail section .


The food-grade product also meets the requirements set out in the Food Chemicals Codex .


It was still occasionally defended through the mid-19 th century , notably by John Cleves Symmes Jr. and Jeremiah N. Reynolds , but by this time it was part of popular pseudoscience and no longer a scientifically viable hypothesis .


He proposed making an expedition to the North Pole hole , thanks to efforts of one of his followers , James McBride .


An early 20th - century proponent of hollow Earth , William Reed , wrote " Phantom of the Poles " in 1906 .


The interior was connected with the surface by an opening in the Arctic .


Michael Grumley , a cryptozoologist , has linked Bigfoot and other hominid cryptids to ancient tunnel systems underground .


A process of consultation between county councils and officials from the Scottish Office was begun to affect the amalgamations .


Use of horses spread across Eurasia for transportation , agricultural work , and warfare .


Use of horses spread across Eurasia for transportation , agricultural work and warfare .


However , more recently there have been skeletal remains found at a site in Kazakhstan which display the smaller , more slender limbs characteristic of corralled animals , dated to 3500 BCE .


A further expansion , into the lowland Near East and northwestern China , also happened around 2000 BCE , again apparently in conjunction with the chariot .


Horses in the Bronze Age were relatively small by modern standards , which led some theorists to believe the ancient horses were too small to be ridden and so must have been driven .


However , as horses remained generally smaller than modern equines well into the Middle Ages , this theory is highly questionable .


It was named after comic book artist Russ Manning .


It approximates both the sidereal year and the tropical year to about ± 0.008 " days .


The positions of celestial objects and events , as measured from Earth , change over time , so when measuring or predicting celestial positions , the epoch to which they pertain must be specified .


He was replaced by Birgit Collin-Langen .


Unlike most modern hyena species , which are specialised bone-crushers , these dog-like hyenas were nimble-bodied , wolfish animals ; one species among them was " Ictitherium viverrinum " , which was similar to a jackal .


The spotted hyena ( " Crocuta crocuta " ) diverged from the striped and brown hyena 10 " million years ago .


Spotted hyena populations began to shrink after roughly 20,000 years ago , completely disappearing from Western Europe between 11 and 14 thousand years ago , and earlier in some areas .


Hyenas are digitigrade , with the fore and hind paws having four digits each and sporting bulging pawpads .


In the 1880 s , a hyena was reported to have attacked humans , especially sleeping children , over a three-year period in the Iğdır Province , with 25 children and 3 adults being wounded in one year .


This was the longest filibuster since the 1999 Reform Party of Canada filibuster , on native treaty issues in British Columbia .


The first was an effort on May 6 , 1991 , by Mike Harris , later premier but then leader of the opposition Progressive Conservatives , to derail the implementation of the budget tabled by the NDP government under premier Bob Rae .


The disappearing quorum was a tactic used by the minority until Speaker Thomas Brackett Reed eliminated it in 1890 .


Both species are smaller than the spotted hyena ( " Crocuta crocuta " ) , but larger than the aardwolf ( " Proteles cristata " ) .


According to James Hetfield , the idea to combine heavy metal with an epic classical approach was Cliff Burton 's idea .


Benzonitrile was reported by Hermann Fehling in 1844 .


A " mouse " , plural " mice " , is a small rodent characteristically having a pointed snout , small rounded ears , a body-length scaly tail , and a high breeding rate .


In some places , certain kinds of field mice are locally common .


Mice are typically distinguished from rats by their size .


A knockout mouse is a genetically modified mouse that has had one or more of its genes made inoperable through a gene knockout .


Mice are a delicacy throughout eastern Zambia and northern Malawi , where they are a seasonal source of protein .


In various countries mice are used as food for pets such as snakes , lizards , frogs , tarantulas and birds of prey , and many pet stores carry mice for this purpose .


Both Mark Lenard and Lawrence Montaigne were seriously considered .


To make hominy , field corn ( maize ) grain is dried , then treated by soaking and cooking the mature ( hard ) grain in a dilute solution of lye ( sodium hydroxide ) ( which can be produced from water and wood ash ) or of slaked lime ( calcium hydroxide from limestone ) .


Also , soaking the corn in lye kills the seed 's germ , which keeps it from sprouting while in storage .


Finally , in addition to providing a source of dietary calcium , the lye or lime reacts with the corn so that the nutrient niacin can be assimilated by the digestive tract .


People consume hominy in intact kernels , grind it into sand-sized particles for grits , or into flour .


Cornmeal from untreated ground corn cannot form a dough with the addition of water , but the chemical changes in masa ( aka " masa nixtamalera " ) make dough formation possible , for tortillas and other food .


Previously , consuming untreated corn was thought to cause pellagra ( niacin deficiency ) - either from the corn itself or some infectious element in untreated corn .


The earliest known use of nixtamalization was in what is present-day southern Mexico and Guatemala around 1500 – 1200 BC .


Adding anise and piloncillo to this mix creates , a popular breakfast drink .


In 1939 he became president of the American Anthropological Association .


Others have been important in the fur trade - the mink is often raised for its fur .


With the exception of the sea otter , they have anal scent glands that produce a strong-smelling secretion the animals use for sexual signaling and for marking territory .


The embryo does not immediately implant in the uterus , but remains dormant for some time .


Several mustelids , including the mink , the sable ( a type of marten ) and the stoat ( ermine ) , boast exquisite and valuable furs , and have been accordingly hunted since prehistoric times .


One mustelid , the ferret , has been domesticated and is a fairly common pet .


In 1083 he expelled the married clergy from the cathedral , and moved a small community of monks from Bede 's old monastery at Jarrow to Durham , to form the new chapter .


In particular , they wanted a platform capable of firing the AIM-7 Sparrow long-range missile .


Some also support Adobe Flash ( SWF files ) .


A collection of his theological works was published in Philadelphia in 1875 .


Results and election information for past Minnesota governor races .


The unique attempt involved trained theatre experts and the actors taken from a rural background in Punjab .


5 " , powered by an uprated engine , the Alvis Leonides Major , flew for the first time .


The artist in question , Glenn Brown , was accused of plagiarism .


The concept of a mixed government was studied during the Renaissance and the Age of Reason by Niccolò Machiavelli , Giambattista Vico , Immanuel Kant , Thomas Hobbes and others .


Its main participants were John Milton , John Locke , Algernon Sidney and James Harrington .


A theorem , the Gittins index , first published by John C. Gittins , gives an optimal policy for maximizing the expected discounted reward .


He was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand , where he obtained a BA in 1930 .


He worked with Maria Callas on a number of occasions , and made recordings of " Carmen " and " Tosca " with her .


The ship visits several star systems , including Beta Hydri .


The film was shot with amateur actors in Algeria .


Modern canvassing can be traced back to the rise of contested elections in England .


An intensive effort by the Al Gore campaign of 2000 was credited with gaining several points on election day in the 2000 election , enough to win the popular vote despite being down several points in the polls the day before .


There has been a long history of studying the effectiveness of canvassing beginning with a 1927 study by Harold Foote Gosnell .


He was the son and successor of Jeroboam .


In the Middle Ages , it seemed completely natural for the face to be whitened and the cheeks rouged .


Sometimes ladies discreetly used a little rouge on the cheeks and used " belladonna " to dilate their eyes so it would make them stand out more .


It was socially acceptable for actresses in the 1800 s to use makeup , and famous beauties such as Sarah Bernhardt and Lillie Langtry could be powdered .


Most cosmetic products available were still either chemically dubious or found in the kitchen amid food coloring , berries and beetroot .


These firms were joined by Revlon just before World War II and Estée Lauder just after .


Loofahs , microfiber cloths , natural sponges , or brushes may be used to exfoliate skin , simply by rubbing them over the face in a circular motion .


A separate category exists for medications , which are intended to diagnose , cure , mitigate , treat , or prevent disease , or to affect the structure or function of the body ( for instance , sunscreens and acne creams ) .


The world 's largest cosmetic companies are L'Oréal , Procter & Gamble , Unilever , Shiseido , and Estée Lauder .


In some individuals , SLS may cause a number of skin problems , including dermatitis .


Such tests have involved general toxicity , eye and skin irritants , phototoxicity ( toxicity triggered by ultraviolet light ) , and mutagenicity .


His flight ended in the court of Bithynia .


He fought his way through the northern tribes to the foothills of the Pyrenees , subduing the tribes through clever mountain tactics and stubborn fighting .


Polybius , who wrote nearest the event , gives 182 " BC .


Any bias attributed to Polybius , however , is more troublesome .


The word rapidly became common parlance among science fiction fans , hippies , and later computer programmers and hackers , and has since entered the " Oxford English Dictionary " .


Not all toy dogs are lapdogs , although that is an important and ancient type of toy dog .


The much-hated levy had a role in the beginning of the French Revolution , when strict legal controls specified who was allowed to sell and distribute salt .


The National Football League survived antitrust lawsuit in the 1960 s but was convicted of being an illegal monopoly in the 1980 s .


It originally featured writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Ashley Wood .


Steve Niles occasionally supplemented the writing and Ben Templesmith the same for the art .


Owned and operated by iHeartMedia , the station broadcasts at 104.1 " MHz with an ERP of 100 " kW .


On the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar , his feast day is December 2 .


This statue , nicknamed " Zuccone " ( " Big Pumpkin " ) because of the shape of the head , now resides in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo .


He taught at the University of Michigan and joined the University of Southern California in 1992 .


The Entercom outlet broadcasts at 93.1 " MHz with an ERP of 100 " kW .


By the time designs were being ironed out , the revolutionary Me 262 turbojet negated the need for further piston-engined fighter design .


It does not produce paper money ; that responsibility belongs to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing .


As in " Stranger in a Strange Land " , a band of social revolutionaries forms a secretive and hierarchical organization .


In 1958 , he recorded " Boulevard of Broken Dreams " , which he sang on national television on a set that resembled a dark street with one street light .


He was fired in 1984 , and was subsequently replaced by Rush Limbaugh .


He was sued for $ 40 million after bringing then-stripper Kellie Everts onto the show and calling her a " slut " , a " pig " , a " hooker " , and a " tramp " , claiming that she had venereal diseases , and banging his pelvis against hers .


The anti-corruption campaigner Hans-Peter Martin polled strongly and his list won two seats .


Although the " term " metaphilosophy and explicit attention to metaphilosophy as a specific domain within philosophy arose in the 20th century , the topic is likely as old as philosophy itself , and can be traced back at least as far as the works of Plato and Aristotle .


It has even been disputed , most notably by Ludwig Wittgenstein , whether genuine philosophical problems actually exist .


The opposite has also been claimed , for example by Karl Popper , who held that such problems do exist , that they are solvable , and that he had actually found definite solutions to some of them .


The station 's studios are located near the Piedmont Triad International Airport and the transmitter site is in unincorporated south Guilford County .


The capsule was opened by city officials on December 31 , 2000 , in a ceremony presided over by mayor Dennis Archer .


The Crypt of Civilization ( 1936 ) at Oglethorpe University , intended to be opened in 8113 , is claimed to be the first " modern " time capsule , although it was not called one at the time .


George Edward Pendray is responsible for coining the term " time capsule " .


Artists such as Andy Warhol , Christian Boltanski , and Louise Bourgeois are known for compiling collections of everyday artifacts that they associate with memories of the past , which are preserved in museums and archives .


A well-known example of this occurring as a form of entertainment was the FOX television series " The X-Files " , which first aired in 1993 .


Farmer volunteers to hypnotize him to be as confident as Arnold Palmer .


In 307 BC she had a noteworthy meeting with Demetrius Poliorcetes with whom she had a mutual admiration .


The University of Cambridge has a long tradition of academic dress , which it traditionally refers to as " academical dress " .


Scarlet day is the term used in the University of Cambridge to designate those days on which Doctors are required to wear the festal form of academic dress .


Notably , the rules governing Cambridge " sub-fusc " are less detailed and less strict than those prevailing at Oxford .


Epicanthic fold prevalence can sometimes be found as a sign of congenital abnormality , such as in Turner syndrome and Zellweger syndrome .


About 60 % of individuals with Down syndrome ( also known as trisomy 21 ) have prominent epicanthic folds .


In Zellweger syndrome , epicanthic folds are also prominent .


Other examples are fetal alcohol syndrome , phenylketonuria , and Turner syndrome .


Frank Miller drew the cover of the final issue .


Disc-shaped aircraft development dates back to before World War II .


During World War II , a number of disc-shaped aircraft were proposed by aircraft designers in Germany .


One of the few to make it further than the drawing board was the Sack AS-6 , an experimental light plane with a round-winged planform that first flew in 1944 .


After the war , the Avro Canada company developed a saucer-shaped aircraft .


Most of the characters in the story previously appeared in the last three stories in the 1926 collection " The Heart of a Goof " .


However , MIRI researchers have expressed skepticism about the views of singularity advocates like Ray Kurzweil that superintelligence is " just around the corner " .


The official cause of death was listed as pneumonia .


For example , the " NBA 2 K " video games that included copyrighted tattoos in the recreation of the players ' likenesses were found to be in " de minimis " and not copyright-violating .


Since the 1970 s about eight large double-hulled canoes of about 20 metres have been constructed for oceanic voyaging to other parts of the Pacific .


They are made of a blend of modern and traditional materials , incorporating features from ancient Melanesia , as well as Polynesia .


During the classic period ( about 1500 to 1770 ) a " hapū " would select a " totara " tree and prepare it years ahead for felling .


The normal timber used , " totara " , is a lightweight native podocarp , which retains its natural oils even when cut down .


This was first used by Alexander Braun .


Hawaiian silverswords and their relatives in the genus " Wilkesia " may take 10 – 50 years before flowering .


The novel was written by Matthew Stover and released in December 2008 .


In observational astronomy , a " double star " or " visual double " is a pair of stars that appear close to each other as viewed from Earth , especially with the aid of optical telescopes .


This occurs because the pair either forms a binary star ( i.e. a binary system of stars in mutual orbit , gravitationally bound to each other ) or is an " optical double " , a chance line-of-sight alignment of two stars at different distances from the observer .


Her greatest feat took place on 19 November 1916 , when she broke the existing cross-America flight air speed record of 452 miles ( 728 " km ) set by Victor Carlstrom by flying nonstop from Chicago to New York State , a distance of 590 miles ( 950 " km ) .


The next day she flew on to New York City .


President Woodrow Wilson attended a dinner held in her honor on 2 December 1916 .


The federal riding of Halifax elected two members from the 1800 s to 1966 .


Alberta had three provincial districts that at various times returned two , five , six or seven members : see Calgary , Edmonton and Medicine Hat .


British Columbia provincially had a mix of multiple-member districts and single-member districts at the provincial level until the 1991 election , and Prince Edward Island had dual-member districts at the provincial level until the 1996 election .


These districts were never adjusted for demographic changes , except in 1966 when the district for the capital city of Charlottetown was divided into two .


However , in 2006 the provincial government of Prince Edward Island was accused of gerrymandering after it rejected the independent boundary commission 's report and instead proposed a new map that would have seen the cities of Charlottetown and Summerside each gain one additional seat , with two fewer seats allocated to rural areas of the province .


He earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University in 1957 .


His work also reflects the influences of other designers such as Mies Van der Rohe and , in some instances , Frank Lloyd Wright and Luis Barragán ( without the colour ) .


These Cepheids are yellow bright giants and supergiants of spectral class F6 – K2 and their radii change by ( ~ 25 % for the longer-period I Carinae ) millions of kilometers during a pulsation cycle .


A relationship between the period and luminosity for classical Cepheids was discovered in 1908 by Henrietta Swan Leavitt in an investigation of thousands of variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds .


Uncertainties have diminished over the years , due in part to discoveries such as RS Puppis .


From its founding in 1975 until 2017 , the editor in chief was Hershel Shanks .


He then met Birgit Hogefeld , and they began dating and moved in together .


Only in the Autumn of 1990 did he come home to meet with his parents in Taunus .


During the process of the arrest , he managed to pull a gun and shoot two officers , succeeding in killing one , Michael Newrzella .


In the latter vision , men are represented as animals - the righteous are white cattle and sheep , the sinners and enemies of Israel are black cattle and wild animals .


This was the title of a 1954 paper by Michael Dummett , which sparked a discussion that continues today .


This view was advanced by David Lewis in his 1973 paper " Causation " .


Proponents range from Baruch Spinoza to Ted Honderich .


Robert Kane and Alvin Plantinga are modern defenders of this theory .


In contrast , later philosophers such as Michel Foucault and Jorge Luis Borges have challenged the capacity of natural and social classification .


According to Quine this notion is closely related to the notion of similarity .


A.N. Whitehead is famous for creating a process philosophy metaphysics inspired by electromagnetism and special relativity .


William of Ockham is remembered for his principle of ontological parsimony .


Brentano 's concept of intentionality would become widely influential , including on analytic philosophy .


Philosophers such as David K. Lewis and David Armstrong developed elaborate theories on a range of topics such as universals , causation , possibility and necessity and abstract objects .


A significant decline in numbers of puffins in Shetland is worrying scientists .


For our knowledge of his system , we are indebted partly to the fragments of writings preserved by Stobaeus and others .


As a speculative theory , Neoplatonism had received its highest development from Plotinus .


Between the two worlds , at once separating and uniting them , some scholars think there was inserted by lamblichus , as was afterwards by Proclus , a third sphere partaking of the nature of both .


This engine was built by GM 's Chevrolet division until production was turned over to Allison .


This object is orbiting the Sun with a period of 4.58 " years , a semimajor axis of , and an eccentricity of 0.14 .


It is a rather unusual P-type asteroid , probably composed of organic rich silicates , carbon and anhydrous silicates , with possible internal water ice .


It was originally confused for 41 Daphne before it was confirmed not to be by its second sighting on August 27 , 1871 .


A " cap of maintenance " , known in heraldic language as a " chapeau gules turned up ermine " , is a ceremonial cap of crimson velvet lined with ermine , which is worn or carried by certain persons as a sign of nobility or special honour .


On 1 November 2003 he replaced Wim Duisenberg as president of the European Central Bank .


He is also an advisor for the transatlantic think-tank European Horizons .


He was cleared in June 2003 , which left the way clear for him to move to the ECB .


Apart from the extinct great auk , all auks can " fly " under water as well as in the air .


The speed at which small fish ( which along with krill are the auk 's principal food items ) can swim doubles as the temperature increases from , with no corresponding increase in speed for the bird .


The first to explicitly describe the argument form " modus ponens " was Theophrastus .


Two elaborate early 20th - century forged codices were in the collection of William Randolph Hearst .


However , it is revealed he suffers from severe pyrophobia ( fear of fire ) as a side-effect .


The first to explicitly describe the argument form " modus tollens " was Theophrastus .


" Book " is the closest term to describe the loose collection of texts consisting of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead person 's journey through the " Duat " , or underworld , and into the afterlife and written by many priests over a period of about 1,000 years .


There are also spells to enable the " ba " or " akh " of the dead to join Ra as he travelled the sky in his sun-barque , and help him fight off Apep .


Then the dead person 's heart was weighed on a pair of scales , against the goddess Maat , who embodied truth and justice .


It also uses dongchimi broth or a mixture of it , while adding the sliced pieces of the radish to the dish .


In South Jeolla Province , " mul naengmyeon " is often served with red chili paste that is mixed in with the broth .


A version of " bibim naengmyeon " originates from Hamhung , the " hwe naengmyeon " ( 회 냉면 ) .


It is eaten with the spicy " gochujang " dressing and other ingredients all mixed .


Vinegar , sugar , and sometimes sesame oil is added according to taste .


In addition to skate , pollock ( 명태 ) can also be used in " hwe naengmyeon " .


A plastic package of mustard oil is often supplied .


This order has traditionally been grouped together with the mayflies and several extinct orders in a group called the " Paleoptera " , but this grouping might be paraphyletic .


The smallest damselflies ( and also the smallest odonates ) are species of the genus " Agriocnemis " ( Zygoptera : Coenagrionidae ) with a wing span of only 17 – 18 " mm .


When Sir Frederick McCoy died in May 1899 he became honorary director of the national museum .


He was both Plato 's pupil and Xenocrates ' friend .


The day also fell after the anniversary of the birth of noted conservationist John Muir .


Beginning with the Baroque era artists received private commissions from a more educated and prosperous middle class .


In Paleolithic times , the representation of humans in cave paintings was rare .


Jitish Kallat had shot to fame in the late 1990 s with his paintings which were both modern and beyond the scope of generic definition .


Others , like Jamini Roy , consciously drew inspiration from folk art .


Early modernist painters such as Damián Domingo was associated with religious and secular paintings .


While other artists such as Fernando Zóbel used realities and abstract on his work .


In the Low Countries , especially in modern day Flanders , a new way of painting was established in the beginning of the 15th century .


The adoption of oil painting whose invention was traditionally , but erroneously , credited to Jan van Eyck , made possible a new verisimilitude in depicting this naturalism .


Illusionistic church ceiling frescoes by Pietro da Cortona seemed to open to the sky .


Louis XV 's succession brought a change in the court artists and general artistic fashion .


There is a pantheist philosophy ( see Spinoza and Hegel ) within this conception that opposes Enlightenment ideals by seeing mankind 's destiny in a more tragic or pessimistic light .


This thinking led romantic artists to depict the sublime , ruined churches , shipwrecks , massacres and madness .


Some of the major painters of this period are Eugène Delacroix , Théodore Géricault , J. M. W. Turner , Caspar David Friedrich and John Constable .


The visionary landscape , a motive largely dependent on the ambiguity of the nocturne , found its advocates in Albert Pinkham Ryder and Ralph Albert Blakelock .


The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse and André Derain – friendly rivals of a sort , each with his own followers .


Masters like Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard continued developing their narrative styles independent of any movement throughout the 20th century .


Yves Tanguy , René Magritte and Salvador Dalí are particularly known for their realistic depictions of dream imagery and fantastic manifestations of the imagination .


Other prominent surrealist artists include Giorgio de Chirico , Méret Oppenheim , Toyen , Grégoire Michonze , Roberto Matta , Kay Sage , Leonora Carrington , Dorothea Tanning , and Leonor Fini among others .


Art critics had favorable opinions about the painting , like Gertrude Stein and Christopher Morley , they assumed the painting was meant to be a satire of rural small-town life .


The figurative work of Francis Bacon , Frida Kahlo , Edward Hopper , Lucian Freud , Andrew Wyeth and others served as a kind of alternative to abstract expressionism .


Jackson Pollock 's dripping paint onto a canvas laid on the floor is a technique that has its roots in the work of André Masson .


Many other artists began exhibiting their abstract expressionist related paintings during the 1950 s including Alfred Leslie , Sam Francis , Joan Mitchell , Helen Frankenthaler , Cy Twombly , Milton Resnick , Michael Goldberg , Norman Bluhm , Ray Parker , Nicolas Carone , Grace Hartigan , Friedel Dzubas , and Robert Goodnough among others .


American pop art is exemplified by artists : Andy Warhol , Claes Oldenburg , Wayne Thiebaud , James Rosenquist , Jim Dine , Tom Wesselmann and Roy Lichtenstein among others .


Along with Henri Matisse , Pablo Picasso , Pierre Bonnard , Georges Braque , and other 20th - century masters .


During the early 1950 s Dubuffet ( who was always a figurative artist ) , and de Staël , abandoned abstraction , and returned to imagery via figuration and landscape .


Yves Klein , Martial Raysse , Niki de Saint Phalle , Wolf Vostell , David Hockney , Alex Katz , Malcolm Morley , Ralph Goings , Audrey Flack , Richard Estes , Chuck Close , Susan Rothenberg , Eric Fischl , John Baeder and Vija Celmins were a few who became prominent between the 1960 s and the 1980 s .


Artists like Clyfford Still , Mark Rothko , Hans Hofmann , Morris Louis , Jules Olitski , Kenneth Noland , Helen Frankenthaler , John Hoyland , Larry Zox , and others often used greatly reduced references to nature , and they painted with a highly articulated and psychological use of color .


Some critics viewed the work of artists like Ad Reinhardt , and declared the ' death of painting ' .


The veteran painters Philip Guston , Frank Auerbach , Leon Kossoff , Gerhard Richter , A. R. Penck and Georg Baselitz , along with slightly younger artists like Anselm Kiefer , Eric Fischl , Susan Rothenberg , Francesco Clemente , Jean-Michel Basquiat , Julian Schnabel , Keith Haring , and many others became known for working in this intense expressionist vein of painting .


Notable illustrator M. C. Escher was influenced by this geometrical and pattern-based art .


champions , Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings , by a significant margin .


They are found throughout Central and South America and in the southwestern area of North America .


A peccary is a medium-sized animal , with a strong resemblance to a pig .


Its stomach is not ruminating , although it has three chambers , and is more complex than those of pigs .


Three ( possibly four ) living species of peccaries are found from the Southwestern United States through Central America and into South America and Trinidad .


It is found in the dry shrub habitat or Chaco of Paraguay , Bolivia , and Argentina .


Fossils have later been found in all continents except Australia and Antarctica .


Peccaries became extinct in the Old World sometime after the Miocene period , possibly because of competition from evolving pigs .


Gerry Conway is credited as the writer for these two issues .


Steve Ditko is given solo credit as the artist for issue # 2 and given a co-credit with Al Milgrom for issue # 3 .


From the internal evidence , the earliest possible date for this correspondence is the final decade of the reign of Amenhotep III , who ruled from 1388 to 1351 " BC ( or 1391 to 1353 " BC ) , possibly as early as this king 's 30th regnal year ; the latest date any of these letters were written is the desertion of the city of Amarna , commonly believed to have happened in the second year of the reign of Tutankhamun later in the same century in 1332 " BC .


This property was used in incendiary weapons during the firebombing of cities in World War II , where the only practical civil defense was to smother a burning flare under dry sand to exclude atmosphere from the combustion .


Antoine Bussy prepared it in coherent form in 1831 .


In the UK , the recommended daily values for magnesium are 300 " mg for men and 270 " mg for women .


The most common symptoms of overdose are nausea , vomiting , and diarrhea ; other symptoms include hypotension , confusion , slowed heart and respiratory rates , deficiencies of other minerals , coma , cardiac arrhythmia , and death from cardiac arrest .


The rigid cork material eventually came to be supplanted by pouches containing watertight cells filled with kapok , a vegetable material .


Kapok buoyancy was used in many navies fighting in World War II .


His chief work was a critical and exegetical commentary on Homer .


He is also famous for constructing the earliest known globe of the Earth .


The Mint of Finland was chosen to mint the coins through an international tender in 2007 .


As the 17th - century Scientific Revolution progressed the popularity and growth of antiquarian collections , those claiming to house highly improbable items grew .


However , his major editors , Simon Wilkin in the nineteenth century ( 1834 ) and Sir Geoffrey Keynes in the twentieth ( 1924 ) , summarily dismissed it .


Based on a Leo Tolstoy short story , the film co-starred a young Marlene Dietrich .


Jennifer Jones stars as the recipient of the letters who falls in love with the writer .


The book maintained its popularity as late as the 17th century , especially in Germany .


The format of this adheres to that of the original dish in everything but the use of potatoes , in place of which are found minuscule squares of locally produced pasta , crozets de Savoie ( usually made from buckwheat but sometimes durum ) .


The suborder Symphyta includes the sawflies , horntails , and parasitic wood wasps .


In a list of nontechnical books he has read , computer scientist Donald Knuth referred to this book as " perhaps the greatest 20th century novel " .


The arms of Bohemia show a silver double-tailed lion on a red background .


In England & Wales they have often been woven from ash tree , willow or hazel withies , and made windproof with wattle , and so called ' wattle hurdles ' .


In the 2000 s , annual leave or vacation in some organizations was seen as absence from the workplace rather than ceasing work , and some office employees used telework to continue to check work e-mails while on vacation .


Some organizations adopt teleworking for environmental reasons , as telework can reduce congestion and air pollution , with fewer cars on the roads .


In 2009 , the United States Office of Personnel Management reported that approximately 103,000 federal employees were teleworking .


A 2007 study of National Science Foundation employees indicated that approximately one-third participated in telework regularly , characterized staff satisfaction with the program , and noted savings in employee time and greenhouse-gas emissions as a result of telework .


The migration created a gay community in the city with enough political clout to elect a gay representative to city government , Harvey Milk .


They are native only to the northern parts of North America , principally Canada , but also Alaska and , to some extent , the northeastern United States .


Some lakes do not have pelagic forage fish during the period of summer stratification .


In those lakes that do contain deep-water forage , lake trout become piscivorous .


Lake trout were fished commercially in the Great Lakes until lampreys , overharvest and pollution extirpated or severely reduced the stocks .


During this period , the station carried " Sexually Speaking " with Dr. Ruth Westheimer .


Tommy Edwards joined the station as program director in 1986 .


He received a Ph.D. in political philosophy from the University of Washington .


The question that puzzled Heinrich Ewald ( " Gesch .


Testing by PMI in 1995 showed that the beer knot preserves about 80 % of the strength of the webbing .


He was born in Macau in 1947 , and then moved to Hong Kong in 1959 .


The voiceless consonants are straightforward voiceless stop consonants : .


This original logo was designed by Donald Deskey , an architect and famous industrial designer .


Travis Kvapil ran for PPI in 2006 but with four DNQs .


In 1861 , the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a ruling on the invention of the polarizing reaper design .


It was televised by the BBC from 18 November to 9 December 1990 , to critical and popular acclaim .


After Margaret Thatcher 's resignation , the ruling Conservative Party is about to elect a new leader .


Their place of publication was afterwards transferred to Strasbourg .


There he was commissioned by Stefan Lorant to produce a photographic profile of the city of Pittsburgh .


The series was initially written by Steve Englehart and drawn by Al Milgrom and Joe Sinnott .


From issue # 42 to 57 the title was written and illustrated by John Byrne .


and viewers in a Channel 4 poll placed it sixth .


The two collaborators with the most meaningful and plentiful contributions have been Neil Innes and Carol Cleveland .


Stand-up comedian Eddie Izzard , a devoted fan of the group , has occasionally stood in for absent members .


Over time , the buttery became a general food storeroom ; the larders of Oxbridge colleges in particular became places where students purchased food and drink .


with Children " was adapted into a comic book series by NOW Comics in 1990 .


The series takes place in Yerevan , Armenia .


The series was also shown by local channels in Uruguay , Paraguay , and Peru .


Top of the Heap " was a sitcom starring Matt LeBlanc .


He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1907 to 1908 and graduated from Harvard University in 1910 as a public accountant .


According to Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza , " From a scientific point of view , the concept of race has failed to obtain any consensus ; none is likely , given the gradual variation in existence .


Henry Harpending argued that this value implies on a world scale a " kinship between two individuals of the same human population is equivalent to kinship between grandparent and grandchild or between half siblings " .


In 1972 , Richard Lewontin performed a F statistical analysis using 17 markers ( including blood-group proteins ) .


The racial naturalist Nicholas Wade considers that the results “ make no genetic or geographic sense ” .


Some doctors and scientists such as geneticist Neil Risch argue that using self-identified race as a proxy for ancestry is necessary to be able to get a sufficiently broad sample of different ancestral populations , and in turn to be able to provide health care that is tailored to the needs of minority groups .


The reason for such , he argues , was not necessarily a result of the prevalence of the FABP2 gene , which is associated with insulin resistance .


Some chimpanzee troupes have been observed consuming aspilia , possibly for medicinal purposes , because it has been seen to remove intestinal parasites , and is otherwise unpalatable .


as well as the " Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter " and " MAVEN " , were healthy after the Comet Siding Spring flyby .


Other artists depicted scenes , regardless of when they occurred , in classical dress and for a long time , especially during the French Revolution , history painting often focused on depictions of the heroic male nude .


This can cause food and plaque to build up , and bacteria can eventually develop on the surface of the teeth , leading to periodontal disease .


There are many health issues associated with teacup dogs , such as luxating patellae , heart disease , hydrocephalus , hypoglycaemia , chronic pelvic pain syndrome , open fontanels and seizures .


The first run was written by Charles Soule and illustrated by a rotating cast of artists .


Similar cultures of peoples across the Bering Strait in both Siberia and Alaska suggest human travel between the two places ever since the strait was formed .


In June 2016 , Purdue University published the results of research on six metal and composite metal artifacts excavated from a late prehistoric archaeological context at Cape Espenberg on the northern coast of the Seward Peninsula in Alaska .


A 2013 genetic study suggests the possibility of contact between Ecuador and East Asia .


200 BCE , among which he noted what appeared to be a depiction of a custard-apple ( " Annona squamosa " ) .


A re-examination in the 1970 s of the mummy of Ramesses II revealed the presence of fragments of tobacco leaves in its abdomen .


Their boat was hung in Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim along with another , longer boat also taken from " pygmies " .


Hardly anyone understands Albert Einstein .


Hushing was also widely used in Britain in the Medieval and later periods to extract lead and tin ores .


The same year he was admitted to the Vilnius University to study foreign languages .


The first was Huldu to whom he was already married when he became king .


Nevertheless , there are several larger red supergiants in the Milky Way , including VY Canis Majoris and possibly Mu Cephei .


Subsequent studies have reported an angular diameter ( i.e. , apparent size ) ranging from 0.042 to 0.056 arcseconds ; that range of determinations is ascribed to non-sphericity , limb darkening , pulsations and varying appearance at different wavelengths .


Between mid-September to mid-March ( best in mid-December ) , it is visible to virtually every inhabited region of the globe , except in Antarctica at latitudes south of 82 ° .


Its mass is such that the star will eventually fuse higher elements through neon , magnesium , and silicon all the way to iron , at which point it will collapse and explode , probably as a type II supernova .


Its core will eventually collapse , producing a supernova explosion and leaving behind a compact remnant .


This would be easily visible in daylight , with a possible brightness up to a significant fraction of the full moon , though likely not exceeding it .


The most common hybrid is the mule , a cross between a " jack " ( male donkey ) and a mare .


A related hybrid , the hinny , is a cross between a stallion and a jenny ( female donkey ) .


With rare exceptions , most equine hybrids are sterile and cannot reproduce .


In 1865 , France , Belgium , Italy , and Switzerland formed the Latin Monetary Union , in which they agreed to value their national currencies to a standard of 4.5 grams of silver or 0.290322 " grams of gold .


By March 2005 , following a gold-selling program , the Swiss National Bank held 1,290 tonnes of gold in reserves , which equated to 20 % of its assets .


The next largest member identified by the analysis was 258 Tyche of 65 " km diameter .


Spectroscopic studies have shown that the family members span a noticeable range of compositions , although all remain within the S spectral class .


She graduated from Wesleyan University in 1997 and uses her work to address issues of capitalism , racism , sexism , homophobia , heterosexism , misogyny , and patriarchy .


The family moved to Clearwater Beach , Florida .


As a child in New York City , he saw his wealthy parents slain before his very eyes .


Rakuten Kitazawa ( 1876 – 1955 ) first used the word " manga " in the modern sense .


The group included Moto Hagio , Riyoko Ikeda , Yumiko Ōshima , Keiko Takemiya , and Ryoko Yamagishi .


Other magazines such as the anime fandom magazine " Newtype " featured single chapters within their monthly periodicals .


Matters changed when translator-entrepreneur Toren Smith founded Studio Proteus in 1986 .


Francophone artists have also developed their own versions of manga ( " manfra " ) , like Frédéric Boilet 's " la nouvelle manga " .


In the United States , mainly two grades of LPG are sold : commercial propane and HD-5 .


LPG is commonly used in North America for domestic cooking and outdoor grilling .


One particular test , conducted by a professor at the University of New South Wales , unintentionally tested the worst-case scenario of a sudden and complete refrigerant expulsion into the passenger compartment followed by subsequent ignition .


The - céntimo coin was last minted in 1868 and featured Queen Isabel II .


The political turbulence of the early twentieth century ( especially during the years after the World War I ) caused the monetary union to break up , although it was not until 1927 that it officially ended .


During the Civil War ( 1936 - 1939 ) , gold and silver coinage was withdrawn and copper-nickel coins were introduced .


5 - and 10-céntimo coins were quickly nicknamed " perra chica " ( small dog ) and " perra gorda " ( fat dog ) respectively , as people then were unable to recognize the shape of the lion in them , mistaking it for a dog .


The first 1-peseta coins bearing the portrait of Francisco Franco were issued in 1947 .


Peseta notes issued since 1939 and coins that were legal tender on 31 December 2001 remain exchangeable at any branch of the Spanish Central Bank until 31 December 2020 .


A " small craft advisory " is a type of wind warning issued by the National Weather Service in the United States .


In 1956&ndash ; 1964 he worked at Kyiv University .


Other descriptions of the grape from the 19th century called the variety " lou seme doù flube " ( meaning " the seedling from the river " ) with the grape thought to have originated on one of the islands found along the Garonne river .


Merlot tends not to go well with strong and blue-veined cheeses that can overwhelm the fruit flavors of the wine .


Production of all three cars began in 2005 at a factory in Kolín , Czech Republic .


Estes Industries released a flying model rocket version .


The nave interior houses three Baroque carved altars with statues of saints and images .


Surrounded by a wreath , the national emblem also acted as the emblem for the National People 's Army , and when surrounded by a twelve pointed white star , for the People 's Police .


The display of the national emblem was for some years regarded as unconstitutional in West Germany and West Berlin and was prevented by the police .


It is an S-type asteroid in composition .


The orbital period of this asteroid is close to a 2:1 commensurability with Jupiter , which made it useful for perturbation measurements to derive the mass of the planet .


It is classified as a C-type asteroid , meaning that its surface is very dark and it is likely carbonaceous in composition .


He is especially famous for his metrical homilies in the dodecasyllabic verse of which , says Bar Hebraeus , he composed over eight hundred known to us .


This object is orbiting the Sun with a period of , a semimajor axis of , and an eccentricity of 0.18 .


This is a stony S-type asteroid with a cross-sectional size of 60.2 " km that is spinning with a rotation period of 25.2 " hr .


Deployed in New York City , it gave instant ratings data on what people were watching .


Armament majors from several countries , including Australia , Brazil , Britain , Belgium , Canada , Czech Republic , France , Germany , Italy , Ireland , Israel , Malaysia , Norway , Poland , Romania , Russia , Singapore , South Africa , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , Netherlands , Ukraine and United States .


The major foreign companies were from US ( 67 companies ) , France ( 49 ) , United Kingdom ( 33 ) , Russia ( 29 ) and Germany ( 22 ) .


Both are genetically important , as each parent provides half of the genetic makeup of the ensuing offspring , called a foal .


The initial single cell combination is already dividing and by the time of entry into the uterus , the egg might have already reached the blastocyst stage .


Shortly after fixation , the embryo proper ( so called up to about 35 days ) will become visible on trans-rectal ultrasound ( about day 21 ) and a heartbeat should be visible by about day 23 .


Halfway through gestation the fetus is the size of between a rabbit and a beagle .


Mares are given vaccinations against diseases such as the Rhinopneumonitis ( EHV-1 ) virus ( which can cause miscarriage ) as well as vaccines for other conditions that may occur in a given region of the world .


Pre-foaling vaccines are recommended 4 – 6 weeks prior to foaling to maximize the immunoglobulin content of the colostrum in the first milk .


During the first several months of pregnancy , the nutritional requirements do not increase significantly since the rate of growth of the fetus is very slow .


Originally , this was due in part to a need for protection from the harsh winter climate present when mares foal early in the year , but even in moderate climates , such as Florida , foaling stalls are still common because they allow closer monitoring of mares .