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Puffbird

2005-11-18T19:05:00.000-08:00

Puffbirds feed on flying insects. They resemble their close relatives the jacamars in habits

Yuma Desert

2005-10-16T16:00:00.000-07:00

The Yuma Desert is a region of low sandy plains and dunes. The area is nearly barren,

Coincidence Counting

2005-08-08T20:50:00.000-07:00

In physics, the detection of two nuclear or cosmic ray events that occur almost simultaneously (e.g., within a time of 10-5 second). Coincidence counting involves two or more particle counters exposed to the same source of cosmic rays or nuclear radiation and connected to an electronic coincidence circuit. One principal use of the coincidence technique is to detect particles

Narratology

2005-07-27T18:40:00.000-07:00

The foundations of narratology

Fischer-dieskau, Dietrich

2005-07-23T00:45:00.000-07:00

Fischer-Dieskau studied with Georg Walter before serving in World War II and with Hermann Weissenborn afterward. In 1947 he made his concert debut in Johannes Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem at Freiburg, and the next year

Mole Crab

2005-07-08T10:05:00.000-07:00

Also called sand bug (Emerita, or Hippa, talpoida) crab of the Atlantic beaches from New England to Mexico. It is so named from its digging mole-fashion in sand. The shell is about 3.75 centimetres (1.5 inches) long, somewhat egg shaped and yellowish white with purplish markings. It lives on beaches in the intertidal zone. E. analoga, a broader and flatter species, occurs on the California coast.

Kadoma

2005-07-06T14:30:00.000-07:00

City, Osaka fu (urban prefecture), Honshu, Japan, bordering Osaka city. The city is located on the left bank of the Yodo River and is known for its cultivation of lotus flowers. After the establishment of a railway connection to Osaka in 1909, industrialization was rapid. The Matsushita Electric Industrial Company moved to Kadoma in 1933 to establish factories producing electrical

Vega, Lope De

2005-06-30T16:20:00.000-07:00

Outstanding dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age, author of as many as 1,800 plays and several hundred shorter dramatic pieces, of which 431 plays and 50 shorter pieces are extant.

Nagercoil

2005-06-22T22:45:00.000-07:00

City, southernmost Tamil Nadu state, southern India. Nagercoil lies west of the Aramboli Gap in the Western Ghats. It controls the major routes between Madras and Trivandrum and is a commercial centre for a rich agricultural area. Its name, meaning “snake temple,” indicates the early significance of the town's Saiva temple. Although historically a part of the Hindu kingdom

Ostariophysan, Feeding habits

2005-06-16T07:55:00.000-07:00

The remarkable diversity of feeding habits among ostariophysians is associated with a fantastic variety of adaptations in mouth shapes and tooth types (especially in the suborder Characoidei) probably unsurpassed by any other group. At one extreme are certain cyprinids (e.g., Notropis atherinoides) with highly developed gill rakers that strain phytoplankton

Wildland Fire

2005-06-03T16:40:00.000-07:00

Fire danger in a wildland setting varies with weather conditions: drought, heat, and wind participate in drying out the timber or other fuel, making it easier to ignite. Once a fire is burning, drought, heat, and wind all increase its intensity. Topography also affects wildland fire, which spreads

China, Japan and Ryukyu

2005-06-01T11:30:00.000-07:00

Three years after the Meiji Restoration of 1868—which inaugurated a period of modernization and political change in Japan—a commercial treaty was signed between China and Japan, and it was ratified in 1873. Understandably it was reciprocal, because both signatories had a similar unequal status vis-à-vis the Western nations. The establishment of the new Sino-Japanese relations

Hindu Kush, Animal life

2005-05-16T07:55:00.000-07:00

Well-adapted species of wildlife are found throughout the mountains. The Siberian ibex and the markhor (both wild goats) negotiate the high crags, while Marco Polo sheep and urial (another wild sheep) occasionally are found in the high pamir. Black and brown bears still exist in isolated valleys, and the Chitral valley wildlife preserve is a domain of the rare snow leopard.

Herzen, Aleksandr Ivanovich

2005-05-14T05:45:00.000-07:00

Herzen also spelled Hertzen, or Gertsen political thinker, activist, and writer who originated the theory of a unique Russian path to socialism known as peasant populism. Herzen chronicled his career in My Past and Thoughts (1861–67), which is considered to be one of the greatest works of Russian prose.

SE1 and all things London

2005-04-05T08:13:00.000-07:00

Are you going to san francisco? Or are you staying in London. If so, have you considered buying a house? Or a flat. get me? If not then you must be daft!! yes you, you're daft!

Anyway, I though I might buy some pants and socks and then some cravats as well as take a short break in the west country.

Can anybody think of a place to stay in southern england? I certainly can't. I checked the site above but it came up with naught! Yes, and if that is not all.... and it is not, I can tell you... then it is certainly enough.

see you soon and post me if you've anything to say.

Yours

Fu-ch'un River

2005-03-15T15:12:00.000-08:00

The westerly

Later Le Dynasty

2005-03-14T05:54:00.000-08:00

The Later Le was established when its founder, Le Loi, began a resistance movement against the Chinese armies then occupying Vietnam; by 1428 he had liberated the country and was free to begin the process of recovering the southern

Earth Sciences, Weather modification

2005-03-11T09:55:00.000-08:00

As late as the 1890s experiments were conducted in the United States in the hope of producing rain by setting off charges of dynamite lofted by balloons or kites. No positive results were reported, however. More promising were the cloud-seeding experiments of the 1940s, in which silver iodide was released into clouds as smoke or solid carbon dioxide broadcast into clouds

Calais

2005-03-04T01:14:00.000-08:00

Industrial seaport on the Strait of Dover, Pas-de-Calais d�partement, Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, northern France, 21 mi (34 km) by sea from Dover (the shortest crossing from England). On an island, now bordered by canals and harbour basins, Calais originated as a fishing village. It was improved by the Count of Flanders in 997 and was fortified by the Count of Boulogne in 1224. After the Battle

Mountain, Intracontinental mountain belts

2005-03-03T15:07:00.000-08:00

In some regions, mountain belts have been formed by crustal shortening within a continental mass, rather than where two continents have collided. Some 40,000,000 to 80,000,000 years ago, the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming formed in this way, and today both the Tien Shan and the Atlas Mountains of northwestern Africa are actively forming within a continent. In general, intracontinental

Crocker, Lucretia

2005-03-02T17:08:00.000-08:00

Crocker graduated from the State Normal School in West Newton, Massachusetts, in 1850 and remained there for four more years as an instructor

Muhando, Penina O.

2005-03-01T07:27:00.000-08:00

Muhando studied education and theatre in Tanzania at the University of Dar es-Salaam, later joining the faculty of the department of theatre arts. Her plays include Hatia (1972; �Guilt�), Tambueni haki zetu (1973; �Reveal Our

M�l�

2005-02-28T18:12:00.000-08:00

Also spelled �mellay� ancient and medieval game, a predecessor of modern football (soccer), in which a round or oval object, usually the inflated bladder of an animal, was kicked, punched, carried, or driven toward a goal. Its origins are not known, but, according to one British tradition, the first ball used was the head of an enemy Dane. The games were played by large numbers of people with few rules

China, Industry

2005-02-27T02:01:00.000-08:00

The development of industry has been given considerable attention since the advent of the Communist regime. Overall industrial output has grown at a rate of more than 10 percent per year, and China's industrial work force probably exceeds the combined total for all other developing countries. Industry has surpassed all other sectors in economic growth and degree

Aureus

2005-02-26T11:03:00.000-08:00

Basic gold monetary unit of ancient Rome and the Roman world. It was first named nummus aureus (�gold money�), or denarius aureus, and was equal to 25 silver denarii; a denarius equaled 10 bronze asses. (In 89 BC, the sestertius, equal to one-quarter of a denarius, replaced the bronze ass as a unit of account.) In Constantine's reform of AD 312, the aureus was replaced by the solidus as the basic monetary