Talking to Americans - However, the prime minister's name (back then) was Jean Chrétien; poutine is a French-Canadian fast food dish of french fries and cheese curd, and also was potentially inspired by recent jokes about Russian president Vladimir Putin who has a similar name. Also, Chrétien had not endorsed any candidate at the time and, in any event, it does not behoove the head of a neighboring country's government to take such a stand regarding U.S. presidential races. Bush's opponent, Vice President Al Gore, also fell victim to Mercer, when he was asked about the Canadian capital Toronto (it is actually Ottawa). Read here for more info The special was a co-production between Island Edge Inc and Salter Street Films. Alliance Atlantis has shut the doors of Salter Street Films. Review Why Should Americans.
Crop circle - people want to believe supernatural explanations for phenomena that are not yet explained. Methods to create a hoaxed crop circles have been well-documented on the Internet. A counter argument to hoaxing is that circles often appears in crops mature-enough that they carry seeds, seed-pods are unbroken, whereas trampling causes seed-pod breakage. Crop circle hoaxers counter that it is easy to leave dry seed pods unbroken during stomping and also leave no trace of entrance and egress trampling when the plants and ground are both dry and some care is taken while walking. Several crop circles that were later to have been determined to be hoaxes were at first certified as being genuine by cerealogists due the lack of seed pod breakage. Farmers are not very happy with crop circles, as they.
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.
Victor Cousin - cherished collection of a lifetime. He died at Cannes on the 13th of January 1867, in his sixty-fifth year. In the front of the Sorbonne, below the lecture rooms of the faculty of letters, a tablet records an extract from his will, in which he bequeaths his noble and cherished library to the halls of his professorial work and triumphs. Philosophy There are three distinctive points in Cousin's philosophy. These are his method, the results of his method, and the application of the method and its results to history,--especially to the history of philosophy. It is usual to speak of his philosophy as eclecticism. It is eclectic only in a secondary and subordinate sense. All eclecticism that is not self-condemned and inoperative implies a system of doctrine as its basis,--in fact,.
Area code - xxxx: Edinburgh (0)13 82xx xxxx: Dundee, a typical area code History Area codes were first introduced in 1958, allowing a caller to call another telephone direct instead of via a manual telephone exchange, a process known as Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD), although the process was not completed until 1979. The four-digit codes were originally assigned based on the first three letters of the respective place's name and the corresponding numbers on a telephone keypad. For example Aylesbury was given the STD code (0)296, where the letter (a) can be found on the number 2, the letter (y) on the number 9 and the letter (l) on the number 6. However as more and more places were given STD codes this system became unworkable. In May 1990, growth of phone numbers in.
Colorado - -Highest -Mean -Lowest 451 km 612 km 4399 meters 2,073 meters 1021 meters ISO 3166-2: US-CO Colorado is a state in the western United States. The name of Colorado came from the Spanish word "colorado" which means "reddish". It is famous for the Rocky Mountains, where the highest peaks of the range exist. The state capital and largest city is Denver. As of the 2000 census, Colorado's population is 4,301,261. The U.S. Post Office abbreviation for the state is CO. USS Colorado was named in honor of this state. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Law and Government 3 Geography 4 Colorado Tourism and Recreation 4.1 National Parks 5 Monuments and Historical Sites 6 Economy 7 Demographics 8 Important Cities and Towns 9 Education 9.2 Colleges and Universities 10.
Commodore 64 - sound cards for PCs). For all others than special enthusiasts, however, the C64 lost its top position when the 16-bit Atari ST and Commodore Amiga were released in the mid-80s. Description The C64 used an 8-bit 6510 microprocessor (a close derivative of the 6502 which had the ability to bank-switch the machine's ROM in and out of the processor's address space) and had 64 kilobytes of RAM, of which 38 KB were available to BASIC. In the UK, the C64 rivalled the British-built Sinclair ZX Spectrum in popularity, benefitting from a full-sized full-travel keyboard and more advanced graphics and sound chips. The graphics chip, VIC II, featured 16 colors, eight sprites, scrolling capabilities, and two bitmap graphics modes. The standard text mode featured 40 columns, like most Commodore PET models. Computer/video.
Simon's Rock College - you can't make students call you "professor" or "doctor." People don't refer to the dean as "Dr. Bernard Rodgers." He's Bernie. Classes are small. Class sizes do not exceed 17 students, usually have no more than 15, and average around 12. It isn't unheard of to have a class with as few as 4 students. Learning is much better facilitated, of course. Students interact with each other and the professor more. There's no such thing as sleeping in the back of a huge lecture hall at Simons' Rock. Classes are discussion-oriented. Professors do not have a monopoly on knowledge. All participants in the class can learn from each other. Professors do not (and should not) lecture most of the time; they should facilitate and guide discussion. Classes occur mainly around tables..
Inorganic table information - S0gas, 1 bar J/mol·K S0liquid, 1 bar J/mol·K S0solid J/mol·K Safety Ingestion Inhalation Skin Eyes More info [ Hazardous Chemical Database] SI units were used where possible. Unless otherwise stated, standard conditions were used. Disclaimer and references This page is a maintenance page, so please do not remove the self-link This page refers to the data given in inorganic compound property tables (pictured to the right). Disclaimer These tables are constructed by amateurs and edited by passers-by. Their accuracy cannot be guaranteed. This includes the safety information, which is provided for curiosity value only. When handling chemicals, always take the proper precautions as defined by a reliable source of information. References By far the bulk of the data came from: SI Chemical Data Book.
United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest - Average Score: 94.931 Year Artist Song Place Points More Info Author Composer Conductor 1957 Patricia Bredin All 7 6 1957 Alan Stranks Reynell Wreford Eric Robinson 1959 Pearl Carr & Teddy Johnson Sing Little Birdie 2 16 1959 Syd Cordell Stan Butcher Eric Robinson 1960 Bryan Johnson Looking High, High, High 2 25 1960 John Watson John Watson Eric Robinson 1961 The Allisons Are you Sure? 2 24 1961 Bob Allison & John Allison Bob Allison & John Allison Hank Robinson 1962 Ronnie Carroll Ring-a-ding Girl 4 10 1962 Stan Butcher Syd Cordell Wally Stott 1963 Ronnie Carroll Say Wonderful Things 4 28 1963 Norman Newell Philip Green Eric Robinson 1964 Matt Monro I Love the Little Things 2 17 1964 Tony Hatch Tony Hatch Harry Rabinowitz 1965 Kathy Kirby I.
Computation - addition to the general computational models, some simpler computational models are useful for special, restricted applications. Regular expressions, for example, are used to specify string patterns in UNIX and in some programming languages such as Perl. Another formalism mathematically equivalent to regular expressions, Finite automata are used in circuit design and in some kinds of problem-solving. Context-free grammars are used to specify programming language syntax. Non-deterministic pushdown automata are another formalism equivalent to context-free grammars. Primitive recursive functions are a defined subclass of the recursive functions. Different models of computation have the ability to do different tasks. One way to measure the power of a computational model is to study the class of formal languages that the model can generate; this leads to the Chomsky hierarchy of languages. The following table.
Comics Journal - superhero comics publishers for its hardline non-mainstream editorial slant and insistence upon investigating industry news in the manner of a traditional journalistic enterprise — a practice that runs in sharp contrast to the uncritical and overtly fannish approach of such other publications as Comics Buyer's Guide and Wizard. Nevertheless the Journal has taken home multiple industry awards over the years. The Journal has also prevailed in a handful of intense lawsuits, one of which involved author and critic Harlan Ellison. Though co-defendants at the time, Groth and Ellison are now bitter adversaries. External site The Comics Journal Online.
Communist Romania - Romania away from the Axis and bringing it over to the Allied side, Michael could do nothing to erase the memory of his country's recent active participation in the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Although Romanian forces fought heroically under Soviet command, driving through Northern Translvania into Hungary proper, and on into Czechosolvakia and Germany, the Soviets still treated Romania as conquered territory. The Yalta Conference had granted the Soviet Union a predominant interest in Romania, the Paris Peace Treaties failed to acknowledge Romania as a co-belligerant, and the Red Army was sitting on Romanian soil. The Communists played only a minor role in Michael's wartime government, headed by General Nicolae Rădescu, but this would change in March 1945, when Dr. Petru Groza of the Ploughmen's Front, a party closely.
Second French Empire - Body was elected by universal suffrage, but it had no right of initiative, all laws being proposed by the executive power. This new political change was rapidly followed by the same consequence as had attended that of Brumaire. On December 2, 1852, France, still under the effect of the "Napoleonic virus", and the fear of anarchy, conferred almost unanimously by a plebiscite the supreme power, with the title of emperor, upon Napoleon III. Ideals of Napoleon III Although the machinery of government was almost the same under the Second Empire as it had been under the First, its founding principles were different. The function of the Empire, as he loved to repeat, was to guide the people internally towards justice and externally towards perpetual peace. Holding his power by universal suffrage,.
NP-complete - that some new problem is NP-complete is to reduce some known NP-complete problem to it. Therefore, it is useful to know a variety of NP-complete problems. Here are a few: Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) Fifteen puzzle Knapsack problem Minesweeper Tetris Hamiltonian cycle problem Traveling salesman problem Subgraph isomorphism problem Subset sum problem Clique problem Vertex cover problem Independent Set problem Here is a diagram of some of the NP-Complete problems and the reductions typically used to prove their NP-completeness. In this diagram, an arrow from one problem to another indicates the direction of the reduction. Note that this diagram is misleading as a description of the mathematical relationship between these problems, as there exists a polynomial-time reduction between any two NP-complete problems; but it indicates where demonstrating this polynomial-time reduction has.
List of leading legal cases in copyright law - for the legal reasoning or the conclusions they reach. Please note: Wikipedia does not give legal advice. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Advent Sys. Ltd. v. Unisys Corp (1991) held that the sale of software is the sale of a good within the meaning of Uniform Commercial Code. Applied Info. Mgmt., Inc, v. Icart (1997) held that the sale of software is the sale of a good. Autodesk v Dyason (No.2) (1993) 176 CLR 300 (the idea-expression divide is the "dominant principle in copyright law" per Mason CJ: "when the expression of any idea is inseparable from its function, it forms part of the idea and is not entitled.
Aztec calendar - for the consideration of the would-be interpreter of the tonalamatl. Since each "month" consisted of twenty days, and there were twenty day-signs, it is obvious that each month in a given year started with the same sign; but that since the last month was followed by the five unlucky days, each year began with a day-sign five days later than the last. Also since 365 is divisible by 13 with 1 as remainder, it follows equally that each year began wit a day-number one in advance of the last. Further, since there were 20 day-signs, and 5 (the highest common factor of 365 and 20) goes into twenty exactly four times, the year began with one of the four signs only. The four signs mentioned by T.A. Joyce (1970: 63-65), which.
Islam as a political movement - 1914 struck an alliance with the Grand Sherif of Mecca, and on 31st October pledged that "If the Arabs assist England in this war, England will guarantee that no intervention takes place in Arabia and will give the Arabs every assistance against external foreign aggression." This agreement served as the basis of the Arab Revolt which generally aligned Arabs with the British Empire. Islam as a political force in that war was not unified, as the Ottoman Turks were resented oppressors of Arab populations. There were scattered objections to the idea of uniting with non-Muslims to defeat nominal Muslim Turks but these were relatively muted. At least, until the British recanted on all their important promises: Following World War I and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, and the subsequent dissolution.
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Homeopathy - the entire visible universe! [1] Park points out that Hahnemann was likely unaware of exceeding the dilution limit because he did not know about Avogadro's number, a physical constant which makes it possible to calculate the number of molecules in a given mass of a substance. Park explains the early success of homeopathy by comparing it with the use of actually harmful remedies at the same time: "Physicians still treated patients with bleeding, purging, and frequent doses of mercury and other toxic substances. If Hahnehmann's infinitely diluted nostrums did no good, at least they did no harm, allowing the patient's natural defenses to correct the problem." Park further explains how modern homeopathologists agree that there is no actual molecule of medication in their medicine, but that the liquid "remembers" the substance.
