Pan-American Highway (route) - not meant to be an official guide to traveling the Pan-American Highway. Always check into local seasonal conditions before planning to travel any significant stretch of the highway, especially south of the contiguous United States. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 United States (Alaska) 2 Canada 3 United States 4 Mexico 5 Guatemala 6 El Salvador 7 Honduras 8 Nicaragua 9 Costa Rica 10 Panama United States (Alaska) Alaska Circle The Pan-American Highway unofficially begins in Circle, Alaska, following Alaska Highway 6 southwest to Fairbanks, Alaska. Fairbanks From Alaska's third largest city, the Pan-American Highway and the Alaska Highway become one in the same, following Alaska Highway 2 southeast to the Canadian border southeast of Northway, Alaska and adjacent to the Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge. ''Note: The Pan-American Highway reenters the U.S..
Early history of Cambodia - of Western Europe were absorbing the classical culture and institutions of the Mediterranean, the peoples of mainland and insular Southeast Asia were responding to the stimulus of a civilization that had arisen in northern India during the previous millennium. The Britons, Gauls, and Iberians experienced Mediterranean influences directly, through conquest by and incorporation into the Roman Empire. In contrast, the Indianization of Southeast Asia was a slower process than the Romanization of Europe because there was no period of direct Indian rule and because land and sea barriers that separated the region from the Indian subcontinent are considerable. Nevertheless, Indian religion, political thought, literature, mythology, and artistic motifs gradually became integral elements in local Southeast Asian cultures. The caste system never was adopted, but Indianization stimulated the rise of highly-organized, centralized.
San Francisco, California - the top of Telegraph Hill. Surrounded on three sides by water, San Francisco's climate is strongly influenced by the cool currents of the Pacific Ocean. The weather is remarkably mild all year round, with a so-called Mediterranean climate characterized by cool, foggy summers and relatively warm winters. Rain in the summer is extremely rare, but winters can often be very rainy. High temperatures in the summer are typically the mid to upper 60s Fahrenheit, while in the winter it virtually never reaches freezing. Occasional offshore flows of air bring hot air into San Francisco during the summer, when temperatures can reach into the high 90s Fahrenheit, but this is rare and it usually only lasts a few days, before the region's "natural air conditioning" takes over and cools the city down.
Ethics in religion - the New Testament. Jewish ethics Jewish ethics is based on the fundamental concepts of Judaism, which holds that ethical duties of all mankind can be derived from the Hebrew Bible. The starting point is the belief in the unity and holiness of God, in whose image man was created. This section has its own article, Jewish ethics. Ethics in the Apocrypha Ethics in systematic form, and apart from religious belief, is as little found in apocryphal or Judæo-Hellenistic literature as in the Bible. However, Greek philosophy greatly influenced Alexandrian writers such as the authors of IV Maccabees, the Book of Wisdom, and Philo. Much progress in theoretical ethics came as Jews came into closer contact with the Hellenic world. Before that period the Wisdom literature shows a tendency to dwell solely.
Irish poetry - on themes from religion or the world of nature. They were frequently written by their scribe authors in the margins of the illuminated manuscripts that they were copying. Another source of early Irish poetry is the poems in the tales and sagas, such as the Táin Bó Cúailnge. Unlike many other European epic cycles, the Irish sagas were written in prose, with verse interpolations at moments of heightened tension or emotion. Although usually surviving in recensions dating from the later medieval period, these sagas, and especially the poetic sections, are linguistically archaic, and afford the reader a glimpse of prechristian Ireland. Medieval/Early Modern Bardic Poetry Irish bards formed a professional hereditary caste of highly trained, learned poets. The bards were steeped in the history and traditions of clan and country, as.
Government of the United States - The national government consists of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. The head of the executive branch is the President of the United States of America. The legislative branch consists of the United States Congress, while the Supreme Court of the United States is the head of the judicial branch. The legal system of the United States is based on English common law; judicial review of legislative acts; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Legislative branch 2 Executive branch 2.1 The Executive Departments 2.1.1 Department of Agriculture 2.1.2 Department of Commerce 2.1.3 Department of Defense 2.1.4 Department of Education 2.1.5 Department of Energy 2.1.6 Department of Health and Human Services 2.1.7 Department of Homeland Security 2.1.8 Department of Housing and Urban Development 2.1.9 Department of the.
Folic acid - low birth weight and premature infants, and infants with neural tube defects. In adults, anemia is a sign of advanced folate deficiency. In infants and children, folate deficiency can slow growth rate. Some of these symptoms can also result from a variety of medical conditions other than folate deficiency. It is important to have a physician evaluate these symptoms so that appropriate medical care can be given. Who may need extra folic acid to prevent a deficiency? Women of childbearing age, people who abuse alcohol, anyone taking anti-convulsants or other medications that interfere with the action of folate, individuals diagnosed with anemia from folate deficiency, and individuals with malabsorption, liver disease, or who are receiving kidney dialysis treatment may benefit from a folic acid supplement. Folic acid is very important for.
François Guizot - and this was also the time of his greatest literary activity. In 1822 he had published his lectures on representative government (Histoire des origines du gouvernernent representatif, 1821-1822, 2 vols.; Eng. trans. 1852); also a work on capital punishment for political offences and several important political pamphlets. From 1822 to 1830 he published two important collections of historical sources, the memoirs of the history of England in 26 volumes, and the memoirs of the history of France in 31 volumes, and a revised translation, of Shakespeare, and a volume of essays on the history of France. The most remarkable work from his own pen was the first part of his Histoire de la revolution d'Angleterre depuis Charles I a Charles II (2 vols., 1826-1827; Eng. trans., 2 vols., Oxford, 1838), a.
Enigma machine - schedules distributed to Enigma users. Basic Cryptanalysis Ciphers can be attacked in a number of ways, and by the opening of World War I code-breaking departments were good enough that most cyphers could be broken with enough effort. However most of the techniques used relied on gaining access to sufficient quantities of text encyphered with a particular key, from which patterns might be discerned with much statistics and hard work. In the frequency analysis technique, letters and letter patterns are counted. Since certain letters appear much more frequently than others in every language, these counts usually reveal information about likely substitutions in the cipher. Users typically look for some important letters and combinations. For instance, in English, E, T, A, O, I, N and S, are usually easy to identify, as.
Amphetamine - Today it is officially admitted for treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and narcolepsy. General Info Amphetamine is a synthetic substance used to suppress appetite, control weight, treat narcolepsy and also ADHD. It is a commonly abused drug, usually bought on the street very impure or mixed with other drugs. Amphetamine can be snorted, taken orally, smoked, or injected. When the drug is snorted, smoked or injected, the effects can be felt within a few minutes, but the duration is usually lessened. When taken orally, the effects of the drug tend to feel “smoother” and are generally longer-lasting. Amphetamine was introduced in most of the world in the form of the pharmaceutical Benzedrine from the late 1920s. It was banned except for prescribed use in the late 1950s. It is also.
Thai language - Song. Spoken by about 20,000 to 30,000 (1982). Shan. Spoken by about 3 million (1993) in Myanmar. Statistics from Ethnologue 2003-10-4. Thai alphabet The Thai alphabet (q.v. for full details) originates from the Devanagari script via Pali, and is quite complex from the perspective of Unicode and computer text rendering, because: It is an abugida script, in which the default vowel is a long O. Vowels associated with consonants are nonsequential: they can precede, follow, or surround their associated consonant(s). Tone markers can occur at several places relative to the vowel grapheme. There is no universal standard for transliterating Thai into English. For example, the name of King Rama IX, the present monarch, is transliterated variously as Bhumibol, Phumiphon, or many other versions. Each guide book, text book and dictionary invents.
Business ethics - moral controversies relating to the social responsibilities of business practices, in any economic system. It looks at various business activities and asks "Is this ethically right or wrong". Topics within this field include deception in advertising, covert monitoring of employee computers and telephones, insider trading, disinformation planting, ponzi scheme, employee rights, confidenciality, job discrimination, affirmative action, drug testing, bribery, political contributions, price discrimination, product churning, unethical labour practices, retail price maintenance, environmental issues, collusion, grey marketing, patent and copyright enfringement, tort law, negligence, product liability, sexual harassment, accounting accountability, tax avoidance, numerous sales techniques, covert marketing research, product placement, planned obsolescence, business intelligence gathering, industrial espionage, undercover marketing, kick-backs, sex in advertising, spam, telemarketing, payola, pyramid schemes, black market, competitive raiding, corporate crime, union busting, preditory pricing, hostile take-overs, creative accounting,.
Tomahawk missile - Tomahawk gives it a low radar cross section and its low-level flight profile makes it difficult to intercept. Before launch, each missile is contained within a pressurized canister to form an all-up-round (AUR) to protect the missile during transportation and storage, and to act as a launch tube. The submarine AUR is launched from torpedo or vertical tubes (e.g. the later Los Angeles class submarines). Surface ships employ a vertical launching system (VLS). A solid fuel booster with steering vanes in its exhaust is used for launch and to provide steering during the initial few seconds of flight while the wings and control surfaces are deployed. The Tomahawk is launched on a preset course above the water and, as it crosses over land, switches to an inertial and Terrain Contour Matching.
PageRank - a search engine. Its properties are much discussed by search engine optimization (SEO) experts. The PageRank system is one of the methods that the most successful search engine, Google, uses to determine a page's relevance or importance. It was developed by Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin while at Stanford University in 1998. As Google puts it: PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that.
Phelsuma - novorum ab ill. Dr. Christ Rutenberg in insula Madagascar collectorum. Zool. Anz. Leipzig 4: 46-48. Boettger, O. (1881 b). Reliquiae Rutenbergiana II: Reptilien und Amphibien. Abl. bremer naturwiss. Ver. Bremen 7: 177-190. Boettger, O. (1881 c) Die Reptilien und Amphibien von Madagaskar. Dritten Nachtrag Abh. senck. naturfors. Gesellschaft 12: 435-558. Boettger, O. (1893). Katalog der Reptilien Sammlung im Museum der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main. I. Teil Frankfurt a/M.Gesellschaft 12: 435-558. Boettger, O. (1894). Diagnose eines Geckos und Chameleons aus Südmadagascar. Zool. Anzeiger (Leipzig) 17: 137-140. Boettger, O. (1913). Reptilien und Amphibien von Madagaskar, den Inseln und dem Festland Ostafrikas (Sammlung Voeltzkow 1889-1895 und 1903-1905) in: Voeltzkow, A. 1908-1917, Reise in Ostafrika. Stuttgart 3: 269-375. Böhme, W. & Meier, H. (1981) Eine neue form der madagascariensis-Gruppe der Gattung Phelsuma.
Project Nike - by Bell Labs, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system. The project delivered the world's first operational anti-aircraft missile system in 1953, the Nike Ajax. A huge number of the technologies and rocket systems used to develop the Nike Ajax were re-used in a number of roles, many of which gained the "Nike" name. The missile's first-stage solid rocket booster became the basis for everything from the Nike Hercules missile to NASA's Nike Smoke rocket, used for upper-atmosphere research. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Nike Ajax 2..1 Specifications (Nike Ajax) 3 Nike Hercules 4 Nike Zeus 5 See also History Project Nike began in 1944 when the US military demanded a new defense system to combat the potential new jet aircraft, as existing gun-based systems proved completely incapable of.
Nanotechnology - most physical objects. Whilst progress has been made in producing ever-smaller computer circuits and nanowires, and manipulating individual atoms, constructing real nanomachines is currently well beyond our present capabilities and is widely believed to be decades away. Critics doubt that controllable self-replicating nanobots are possible at all, citing the possibility of mutations removing any control and favouring reproduction of the mutant pathogenic variations. Advocates counter that bacteria are designed to mutate, and nanobot mutation can be prevented by common error-correcting techniques used in computers today. They also note that self-replicating machines are not a necessary part of a productive nanotechnology. Research in this area has included the development of simulation software, such as NanoCAD. Despite its current early developmental status, there has been much speculation about the impact of nanotechnology on.
Dionysius Exiguus - translated from Greek into Latin 401 ecclesiastical canons, including the apostolical canons and the decrees of the councils of Nicaea, Constantinople, Chalcedon and Sardis, and also a collection of the decretals of the popes from Siricius to Anastasius II. These collections had great authority in the West and still guide church administrations. He was known for his mathematical skill and for being versed in astronomy, as well. Pope John I requested that Dionysius compute a table for future dates of Easter. In 525, Dionysius produced his Liber de Paschate. It starts with a letter to a bishop Petronius introducing the work. Then follow the tables and an explanation on how to use and compute them. Letters from the Alexandrian bishops to Pope Leo, and by Dionysius form appendices to this work..
Definition of religion - century Christianity: one thinks here of Raimundo Panikkar's phrase "The unknown Christ of Hinduism". But while this strategy may be more refined than the "only my religion is the truth" approach, it is imperialistic in nature. It refuses to take other people seriously, preferring instead to remake them in its own image. The second major way of reacting to the problem of the differences between religions is to declare that the only true religion is mysticism. The third reaction to the problem is to ignore it. This approach, which grows naturally out of the exclusivism of the first strategy, was perhaps possible in certain periods in the past, when religions dominated large areas almost entirely. But today, it would imply shutting oneself up in a self- imposed ghetto, avoiding all contact.
X.509 - X.509 is part of the hierarchial X.500 standard and thus assumes a strict hierarchial system of certificate authorities (CAs) for issuing the certificates. This is in contrast to web of trust models, like PGP, where everyone may sign the keys of others. The X.500 system have never been fully implemented, so the IETF's public-key infrastructure working group have made extensive updates to the standard in order to make it work with the more loose organization of the Internet. In fact today X.509 certificate usually refers to the X.509 v3 certificate specified in RFC2459. In the X.509 system, a CA issues a certificate binding a public key to a particular name. This name is supposed to be the Distinguished Name defined by X.500. However as no real implementation of this standard exists,.
