KnowledgeWeb Project - KnowledgeWeb Project The KnowledgeWeb Project is a learning web site about knowledge envisioned and supervised by James Burke and the James Burke Institute for Innovation in Education. It is a non-profit, all volunteer project. The mission of the site is to present knowledge in a highly interconnected, holistic way. The goal is not only to inform about the scientists, artists, innovators and explorers of history but also to find the connections between them and impact they have had on modern life. Initially the Knowledge Web will have 2200 entries linked over 16,000 ways. Later it will grow to include a theoretically unlimited amount of information. In later phases data visualization technologies will allow users visual interaction with the contents of the site. The project is looking.
Knowledge - refers to the knowledge, facts and beliefs that a person has; this entry also discusses ways that people gain such knowledge. A priori knowledge Empirical knowledge or a posteriori knowledge Procedural knowledge or Know-how: The term "know-how" refers to knowing how to perform some task. Distinguishing propositional knowledge from know-how Suppose that Fred says to you: "The fastest swimming stroke is the front crawl. One performs the front crawl by oscillating the legs at the hip, and moving the arms in an approximately circular motion". Here, Fred has propositional knowledge of swimming and how to perform the front crawl. However, if Fred acquired this propositional knowledge from an encyclopedia, he will not have acquired the skill of swimming: he has some propositional knowledge, but does not have any know-how. In general,.
James Burke - on PBS channel in the US. The series was a great success for Burke. Later it was shown in more than 50 countries and appeared in about 350 university and college curriculums. Additionally the book that followed the series was also a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic. Other documentary series made by James Burke : The Real Thing on the human brain and various aspects of perception Connections2 The Day the Universe Changed The Masters of Illusion on Reinessanse painting After the Warming on the Greenhouse effect His books : The Axemaker's Gift James Burke is the leading figure of the KnowledgeWeb Project In the closing scenes of The Day the Universe Changed, Burke suggested that a forthcoming revolution in communication and computer technology would allow people all over.
VENONA project - VENONA project This is most definitely a work in progress, much of this information is written from memory. Please contribute more information and references! The VENONA project was a long-running and highly secret collaboration between the United States intelligence agencies and England's MI5. US Army codebreakers had intercepted large volumes of encrypted high-level Soviet diplomatic and intelligence traffic during and immediately after World War II. The British had stopped intercepting Soviet traffic, at Churchill's orders, shortly after Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 and had no traffic to contibute to the project after that time. This traffic, some of which was thought to be encrypted with a one-time pad system, was stored and analyzed in relative secrecy by hundreds of cryptanalysts over a 40-year period starting.
Jakarta Project - Jakarta Project The Jakarta Project creates and maintains open source solutions in Java. Major contributions by the Jakarta Project include tools, libraries and frameworks such as: Ant - a build tool Maven - a project build tool OJB Slide Struts Tomcat - a JSP/Servlet container Torque Turbine Velocity - a template engine POI - a pure Java port of Microsoft's popular file formats. Jakarta is under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation..
Karl Guthe Jansky - every 24 hours, but every 23 hours and 56 minutes. This is characteristic of the fixed stars, and other objects far from our solar system (sidereal day). He eventually figured out that the radiation was coming from the Milky Way and was strongest in the direction of the center of our Milky Way galaxy, in the constellation of Sagittarius. The discovery was widely publicized, appearing in the New York Times of May 5, 1933. Jansky wanted to follow up on this discovery and investigate the radio waves from the Milky Way Galaxy in more detail. He proposed to Bell Labs to build a 30 meter diameter dish antenna. But Bell Labs had the answer they wanted about static: the static was not a problem for transatlantic radio communication. Jansky was assigned.
Veloute sauce - Wikipedia Cookbook. Source: ''The Cook's Decameron: A Study In Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes'' from a project that puts out-of-copyright texts into the public domain. This is from a *very* old source, and reflects the cooking at the turn of the last century. Update as necessary..
Venetian soup - little soup, strain off, put them into the tureen and pour a good clear soup over them. See also: Wikipedia Cookbook. Source: ''The Cook's Decameron: A Study In Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes'' from a project that puts out-of-copyright texts into the public domain. This is from a *very* old source, and reflects the cooking at the turn of the last century. Update as necessary..
Kansai International Airport - man-made island, 4 km long and 1 km wide, was proposed. Engineers faced the risk of earthquakes (very high) and typhoons (with storm surges of up to 3 meters). Construction started in 1987. The sea wall was finished in 1989 (made of rocks and 48,000 tetrahedral concrete blocks). Three mountains were excavated for 21 million cubic meters of landfill. 10,000 workers and 10 million work hours over 3 years, using 80 ships, were needed to complete the thirty-meter layer of earth over the sea floor and inside the sea wall. In 1990, a three-kilometer bridge was completed to connect the island to the mainland at Rinku-Town, at a cost of $1 billion. By then, the island had sunk 8 meters (far more than predicted) and the project became the most expensive.
Karl Lachmann - method becomes increasingly apparent in the Auswahl aus den hochdeutschen Dichtern des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts (1820), in the edition of Hartmann's Iwein (1827), in those of Walther von der Vogelweide (1827) and Wolfram von Eschenbach (1833), in the papers "Über das Hildebrandslied," "Über althochdeutsche Betonung und Verskunst," "Über den Eingang des Parzivals," and "Über drei Bruchstucke niederrheinischer Gedichte" published in the Abhandlungen of the Berlin Academy, and in Der Nibelunge Not und die Klage (1826), which was followed by a critical commentary in 1836. Lachmann's Betrachtungen über Homer's Iliad, first published in the Abhandlungen of the Berlin Academy in 1837 and 1841, in which he sought to show that the Iliad consists of sixteen independent "layers" variously enlarged and interpolated, have had considerable influence on modern Homeric criticism, although his views are.
Kai Tak International Airport - dynasty emperor. Japanese surrendered shortly after the completion of the second runway in 1945. An official plan to modify Kai Tak to be a modern airport was released in 1954. In 1962, the passenger terminal was completed and Kai Tak became an international airport. At first Kai Tak was "far away" from residental areas. But as both the residental areas and the airport expanded, Kai Tak became too close to the residental areas. There were many talks about a new airport but no plan really worked out due to various reasons. Finally in 1990, in response to the political instability due to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Hong Kong government decided to go ahead with the so-called "Rose Garden Plan" of which the Chek Lap Kok International Airport was the.
Kara-Tur - (1986) Ochimo the Spirit Warrior (1987) Blood of the Yakuza (1987) Mad Monkey vs. the Dragon Claw (1988) Ninja Wars (1990) Ronin Challenge (1990) Test of the Samurai (1990) Books There were 3 choose your own adventure style books (one was actually released before the original Oriental Adventures book): Blade of the Young Samurai - Endless Quest 23 (1984) Test of the Ninja - AD&D Adventure Gamebook 5 (1985) Warlords - 1 on 1 Book 7 (1986) External Links Wizards of the Coast Oriental Adventures Page James Wyatt, Author 3E Oriental Adventures The Oriental Adventures Project.
Katherine Young - needed a break. Needing something else to do, she made the fateful decision to take a 12-week-long computer class offered at her retirement home. By the end of these sessions, she was logging on, and the centenarian decided to become an activist for the cause of encouraging seniors to use the Net. A Pew Internet & American Life Project study showed that only 18% of Americans 65 and older get online, as opposed to 58% of the American population as a whole. Five years later, on her 102nd birthday, she became a celebrity for being the oldest person to surf the Net. She was feted with numerous birthday emails and an emailed sonogram of her great-grandson, who was eventually born in August 2003. She studies Chinese genealogy on Google, and researches.
Kathleen Hanna - of Bikini Kill (early 1990s) in between which she had a solo project as Julie Ruin. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
KDE - for Unix workstations, similar to the desktop environments found under MacOS or Microsoft Windows." KDE was originally patterned after CDE, the "Common Desktop Environment." CDE is an older Unix desktop environment used by commercial Unix vendors, such as Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. Historically, the GNU project had concerns about the licensing of the Qt library, leading to their founding the GNOME Desktop project (and Harmony, a now-abandoned project to duplicate Qt). Qt was re-licensed to provide the GNU General Public License as an option, which has mitigated those concerns. KDE is highly configurable and features many cosmetic elements such as the translucency in menus and antialiasing, which are comparable to features in Windows and Mac OS X. A typical KDE session: the main menu (left), kmail (background), konqueror the KDE web.
Kemp Town - 1823 on Arundel Terrace, Chichester Terrace, Lewes Crescent and Sussex Square. In 1837 Thomas Kemp fled the country to escape his creditors. The project continued under Cubitt with the support of the Fifth Earl of Bristol. It was completed in 1855 with Sussex Square larger than Grosvenor Square and the biggest housing crescent in Britain. The original estate is a good example of Regency architecture..
Kettlebaston - features one of Suffolk's finest modern rood screens, (designed by Father Ernest Geldart, and decorated by Patrick Osborne, and Enid Chadwick), and a rare Sacred Heart altar upon a Stuart Holy Table. It now unfortunately lacks the small lead spire which once topped the tower. Regarded as a place of pilgrimage to the followers of the Anglo-catholic movement from all over the UK, Kettlebaston was the liturgically highest of all Suffolk's Anglican churches. From 1930, (until his retirement in 1964), Reverend Father Harold Clear Butler said Roman Mass every day, and celebrated High Mass and Benediction on Sundays. He also removed state notices from the porch, and refused to keep registers, (or to recognise the office of the local Archdeacon of Sudbury)! Still without an electricity supply, the church is illuminated.
Kessingland - remains of an ancient forest lie buried on the seabed. The Suffolk Coast and Heaths area was designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1970, and the Suffolk Coasts and Heath Project runs many conservation projects. Famous residents Sir H. Rider Haggard, novelist, was born here..
Ken McVay - (also called Holocaust revisionism) and the methods used by revisionists to promote it. He is the founder of the Nizkor Project, one of the first (and largest) World Wide Web sites dedicated to exposing the truth about Holocaust revisionism and the hate groups that promote it. One of the most active participants on the newsgroup alt.revisionism, McVay describes himself as a person who found himself moved to action by the efforts of Holocaust revisionists on the newsgroup to promote "factual evidence" that he found to be poorly presented and claims that were vague at best. He also opposed the idea of censoring and suppressing the revisionists, as authorities and experts on hate groups often did. A former United States Marine and retired service station manager, McVay found that he had an.
Kepler Space Mission - Mission The Kepler Space Mission is a funded project whose intent is to find Earth-sized extrasolar planets..
