cyanic-selkie/wikianc huggingface dataset:
Pope Boniface VIII
Pope
Boniface VIII made a rule that if a ruler (king) fined people taxes without the church or popes' permission that the ruler would be excluded from the church. He would make rash decisions without consideration. He was known to be harsh, mean, cruel, and did not listen to other people's recommendations. For example, He declared a very rash papal law that all people, not just Christians, must follow him if they want to go to heaven. He believed as the Pope, all rulers should bow down to him and respect him.
List of biochemistry topics
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fat - formaldehyde -
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gel electrophoresis - glycolysis - glycoprotein - granzyme - guanine -
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hemoglobin - hormone - hydrocarbon - hydrogen bond - hydrolysis -
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immunoglobulin - immunology - insulin - intermolecular force - ion channel - ionic bond - isomer -
K
keratin - kinetic energy - Krebs cycle -
L
Le Chatelier's principle - light-dependent reactions - light-independent reactions - Link reaction - lipid -
M
macromolecule - membrane protein - metabolism - microbiology - molecular biology - molecule - monosaccharide -
N
NADPH - neurotransmitter - niacin - nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate - Nobel Prize in Chemistry - nucleic acid - nucleobase - nucleotide - nutrient - nutrition -
O
organic chemistry - organic compound - osmosis - oxidation -
P
peptide - pesticide - pH - photosynthesis - physiology - polymer - polysaccharide - potential energy - prion - protein - protein biosynthesis -
S
saturated fat - scientific notation - sequence analysis - signal transduction - solvation - starch - substrate (biochemistry) - sugar - synapse
T
T cell - thymine - toxin - trans fat - transcription (genetics) - translation (genetics) -
U
unsaturated fat - uracil -
V
vaccine - virus - vitamin - Vitamin A - Vitamin C - Vitamin D - Vitamin E - Vitamin K -
Y
yeast -
List of political parties in New Zealand
Politicians in New Zealand can belong to one of several political parties. Two of the largest parties are the Labour Party and the National Party.
Bert Romijn
Bert Romijn, also written as Bert Romyn, (22 August 1934 – 19 July 2018) was a Dutch track cyclist. He became world champion in the amateur motor-paced event at the 1966 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. Between 1960 and 1966, he won two silver medals and a bronze medal at the Dutch national track cycling championships. He was awarded the Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau. He was also awarded the “Golden Wheel” of the KNWU.
List of political parties in New Zealand
List of major political parties
The following parties have members in the New Zealand Parliament:
List of minor political parties
The following parties are registered political parties that can stand in elections but currently have no elected members of the New Zealand Parliament:
Rick Hendrick
Joseph Riddick Hendrick III (born July 12, 1949) is the owner of the NASCAR race team Hendrick Motorsports. In the time that he has owned the team, he and his team have won ten Sprint Cup series championships.
Nelly Olin
Nelly Olin (23 March 1941 – 26 October 2017) was a French politician. She was a Minister of Environment in France under Dominique de Villepin's government from 2005 through 2007. From 2004 to 2005, Olin was the Minister-Delegate for Social Security. She was a Senator for the Oise department.
Olin served as Mayor of Garges-lès-Gonesse and Senator, both offices from 1995 to 2004.
Olin died on 26 October 2017 in Paris of complications from breast cancer. She was at age 76.
Universidade de Vigo
The University of Vigo is a public university included in the University System of Galicia (NW Spain) based in the city of Vigo. It has campuses in three cities: Vigo, Pontevedra and Ourense. In 2010, the University of Vigo became the center of the Campus do Mar international interuniversity excellence campus, in which the three Galician and several universities in the north of Portugal, as well as CSIC and Spanish Institute of Oceanography participate.
Since 2018, Manuel Reigosa, a plant physiologist, has been the Rector.
History
The direct antecedent of the institution was the so-called University College of Vigo, created after the approval in 1972 of the construction of the aforementioned in the Lagoas, in Marcosende, in the parish of Zamáns, and under the sponsorship of Caixa de Aforros de Vigo. In the course 1977 - 78 began classes in the degrees that time were offered: Chemistry and Biology, Economics and Philology. Two years after the start of teaching at the institution, the University of Santiago de Compostela, founded in the 15th century, integrated the studies taught in Vigo under its administrative and academic tutelage.
Law 11/1989 of 20 July on the organization of the Galician university system reorganized the university landscape of the Autonomous Community. The University of Vigo was established as such in 1990 after its segregation from the University of Compostela. The first president ( 1990 - 1994 ) was the chemical engineer Luis Espada Recarey would be replaced in office by Professor José Antonio Vázquez (1994-1998). Between 1998 and 2006 the post was held by professor Domingo Docampo, between 2006 and 2010 Alberto Gago, and between 2010 and 2018 Salustiano Mato.
The University achieved the highest number of enrollments in the 1999-2000 academic year (29000 students), since then there has been a continuous decline in students. In 2006 it had 21263 enrolled (12820 on the Vigo Campus, 4991 in Ourense and 3452 in Pontevedra). In the 2016-17 academic year, the total number of students amounted to 21235.
Campus
The Vigo Campus, or Vigo Technological Campus, is distributed in various locations. The main one is the University Town of As Lagoas-Marcosende located in the parish of Zamáns. However, in the center of Vigo is the so-called Urban Campus, located in a building from the 1930s designed by the architect Jenaro de la Fuente. This building, located in Conde Torrecedeira Street and still known today as the School of Industrial Experts, is now part of the University's School of Industrial Engineering. Attached to this building is a university library. Just across the street is the University School of Business Studies. Toralla Island, in the Filomena Dato Building, is home to the Toralla Marine Science Station (ECIMAT), on the southern shore of the Ría de Vigo.
The Pontevedra Campus has several spaces within the city of the same name. It has a central campus known as A Xunqueira, in the northern part of the town, as well as several faculties in the city center. The headquarters of the Vice-Rectorate are located in the Casa das Campas, a historic building owned by the municipality for use by the University of Vigo.
The Ourense Campus Campus da Agua is fully integrated into the city center, in the neighborhood of As Lagoas. It occupies the facilities of the old Hospital da Lonia. It also has other infrastructures, such as the Iron Building (headquarters of the Faculties of Education and Social Work and History), or the Polytechnic Building, which houses the Faculty of Science and the School of Computer Engineering. In the new part, known as Campur Sur, are the Faculties of Business and Tourism Sciences and the Faculty of Law, both in the same building, and the School of Aeronautical and Space Engineering. Other facilities include the Rosalía de Castro University Library, the university swimming pool, the sports court and different outdoor sports areas, including a synthetic grass field.
Government structure
On May 20, 2010, elections for the rectory were held with two candidates: Nova Universidade, led by Jaime Cabeza Pereiro, and Alternativa Universitaria, led by Salustiano Mato. The latter was the winner in the election, reaching 52.6% of votes. In 2014, Mato ran for New University and was re-elected by 751 votes in an election he ran as the sole candidate. From July 4, 2014 to 2018, the university's governing board was composed of:
Degrees, master's degrees, student and other data of interest
Since its segregation from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), the University of Vigo (UdV or UdVigo) has been gradually increasing both the number of degrees and the number of teachers and students.
The university has in its three fields 22 own university centers, 7 affiliated centers and 5 technological centers, and that cover 140 areas of the knowledge. In them predominates degrees in social and legal sciences and engineering companies In 2017 the university has trained 21235 students: 17237 pursuing degrees, 2,048 master's and doctoral degrees in 1365. It also had 1376 people dedicated to research and teaching, 434 researchers in training or technicians and 484 people linked to projects. The administration and service staff were 702 people. In addition, it went from an investment in research of 0.51 million euros in 1991 to 5.23 million in 2001. The total budget of the institution for 2016 amounts to €160,586,524. Most of the expenditure corresponds to staff and current expenditure and is mostly distributed in technological, legal and social research groups.
Scalar (physics)
In physics, a scalar or scalar quantities are the physical quantity which are expressed only by their magnitude without detection. The contrary notion is vector.
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney is an adventure game made by Capcom for the Nintendo DS handheld. It's about a lawyer who has to defend his clients for murder.
Haaretz
Haaretz (lit. "The Land [of Israel]", originally Ḥadashot Ha'aretz –,  – "News of the Land [of Israel]" in English The Palestine News ) is an Israeli newspaper. It was founded in 1918. It is the longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel, and is now published in both Hebrew and English.
The English edition is published and sold together with the International New York Times. Both Hebrew and English editions can be read on the Internet.
Hanger steak
Hanger steak is a type of meat cut. It comes from the plate muscle like the skirt steak. It is similar to a flank steak. It is known to be a cheap and tender cut.
It might be called the hanger steak as the muscle is hanged on the diaphragm.
Other terms
It was known as a butchers steak since butchers would previously keep the steak for themselves.
The hanger steak is becoming more popular in Europe. In Britain it is called a "skirt steak", not to be confused with the American skirt steak. In French it is known as the onglet, in Italian the lombatello, in Dutch the longhaas, in Polish the świeca wołowa, and in Spanish the solomillo de pulmón or entraña or entécula.
Inchy
Inchy is a commune in Nord in north France. In 2018, 708 people lived there.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Trials and Tribulations
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations is an adventure game made by Capcom for the Nintendo DS handheld. It's about a lawyer who has to defend his clients for murder.
Cases
A flashback case where Mia Fey has to defend Phoenix Wright for the murder of his girlfriend's ex-boyfriend. This is Mia Fey's second case, and the first time she and Phoenix meet.
Someone impersonates Phoenix and does a bad job defending someone to frame them for murder. Phoenix learns that it's Maggey Byrde, a client he defended, and tries to find the real killer.
Mia Fey's very first case; she defends an escaped convicted murderer for the murder of a police officer.
Phoenix goes with Maya and Pearl to a shrine so that the two girls can train. They meet a famous writer, who is murdered the night they arrive. After this, the bridge to where Maya is training is set on fire by a bolt of lightning, and Phoenix tries to get across to save her, but falls into the raging water far below, so Miles Edgeworth, a prosecutor and friend of Phoenix, has to come and act as a defense attorney for him.
Yuzu (band)
Yuzu (ゆず) is a Japanese popular music duo. Its members are Kitagawa Yujin (北川悠仁) and Iwasawa Kouji (岩沢厚治). Both of the band members come from Yokohama in the Kanagawa Prefecture. At first, they sung on the street in Yokohama. They have known each other since they were small children.
Gapik
Qapik (or gapik, from qəpik) is a monetary unit of Azerbaijan, equal to 1/100 of the Azerbaijani manat. The 2006 currency denomination of the Azerbaijani manat introduced 1, 3, 5, 10, 20 and 50 qapik into circulation.
Yuzu (band)
They are famous for their concerts in front of the department store, Matsuzakaya in Isezakicyo in Yokohama. They officially debuted in 1997. The first CD was 'Yuzu no Moto'.
Gapik
The 1, 3 and 5 qapik are made of copper-covered steel. The 10 and 20 qapik are made of brass-covered steel, the 50 qapik are in two colors.
A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin is a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, the writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin. She was trying to show that the stories she wrote about slaves in Uncle Tom's Cabin were true. However, later studies showed that Stowe had actually read lots of the books she wrote about in A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin after she had published her novel. It was first published in 1853 by Jewett, Proctor & Worthington.
Gapik
The word qapik comes from the Russian word "kopek" which means spear, and which was a currency since the time of Ivan the Terrible in the 16th century and is now the monetary unit of the Russian ruble, Ukrainian hryvnia and Belarusian ruble.
Mahakala
Mahakala is a dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of 80 million years ago.
It is based on a partial skeleton found in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia.
Mahakala was a small dromaeosaur, about 70 centimeters long (28 in). Its skeleton shows some features which are also found in early troodontids and avialans. However, its short forearms rule it out of the Alialae.
Despite its late appearance, its structure is that of a basal dromaeosaur. Its small size, and the small size of other basal deinonychosauria, suggests that small size came before flight in birds.
Description
Although this individual was small, comparable in size to Archaeopteryx, Caudipteryx, and Mei, it was close to adulthood.
This genus can be distinguished from other paravians (dromaeosaurs, troodonts, and birds) by details of the ulna, thighbone, ilium, and tail vertebrae.
It had a typical dromaeosaurid form of the second toe, with an expanded claw. Mahakala also had very short forelimbs compared to other Dromaeosaurs.
Classification
A phylogenetic analysis performed by Turner and colleagues, who described the specimen, found Mahakala to be the most basal known dromaeosaur. Their results, along with the small size of other theropods found at the base of paravian lineages, suggest that small size was not an innovation of early birds, but a common trait of early paravians.
In evolution, small size would have come before flight. Like birds, troodonts and dromaeosaurs did not keep small size throughout their evolutionary history. They had several separate size increases among different lineages.
Mahakala also shows a combination of characteristics found among basal troodonts and birds, and is missing some that are present in more derived (specialised) dromaeosaurs.
Paleoecology and paleobiology
The paleoenvironment had a semiarid climate, with sand dunes and alluvium (loose stuff). The semiarid steppe landscape was drained by streams after rain, and was affected by dust and sandstorms. Rainfall was low, and seasonal.
Animals present included terrestrial turtles and crocodilians, lizards, mammals, and a variety of dinosaurs; aquatic animals like fish were not present. The majority of the fauna was small to medium-sized.
Small coelurosaurians are the most diverse dinosaurs, including fellow dromaeosaurid Velociraptor, troodonts Byronosaurus and Saurornithoides, oviraptors Citipati, Khaan, and Oviraptor, and alvarezsaurs Mononykus and Shuvuuia; other dinosaurs present included the ceratopsian Protoceratops and the ankylosaur Pinacosaurus. Like other dromaeosaurs, Mahakala would have been a small, active, predaceous carnivore.
Disjoint sets
In mathematics, two sets are disjoint when they have no elements in common. For example, the sets \{1, 3\} and \{2, 4\} are disjoint, but the sets \{1, 3\} and \{1, 5\} are not disjoint.
Movie projector
A movie projector is a machine that shows moving pictures by projecting them on a projection screen. Most of the optical and mechanical elements, except for the illumination and sound devices, are present in movie cameras. Many movie projectors use film and are called "film projectors". They are similar to slide projectors but with additional parts to keep the film moving at the correct speed.
Blackmail (disambiguation)
Emotional blackmail is a form of psychological manipulation.
Mari Amimoto
Mari Amimoto (born 15 November 1988) is a Japanese wheelchair basketball player (4.5 wheelchair basketball classification). She is a member of the Japan women's national wheelchair basketball team and her club Cocktail. She plays as a forward. She finished fourth at the 2008 Summer Paralympics and won the silver medal at the 2018 Asian Para Games. In 2021 she competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.
Life
Amimoto was born with an bone impairment in her right ankle. She started with wheelchair basketball when she was in grade five of primary school. She started playing competitively in grade 10 of high school. After competing at the 2006 World Championships where she finished with the team 6th, she competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics. She made it with the team to the semi finals, and finished fourth after also losing the bronze medal match. After competing at the 2010 and 2014 World Championships, she won the silver medal, with the team at the 2018 Asian Para Games. She competed at the 2019 Asia Oceania Championships.
Aham, Germany
Aham is a municipality in Landshut in Bavaria in Germany. It is on the river Vils.
List of historical plagues
This list contains famous or well documented outbreaks of plagues or disease. They are examined in individual entries.
Yatsuhashi
Izutsu Yatsuhashi Honpo
Izutsu Yatsuhashi was established by Sahei Tsuda in 1805. At one of the Izutsu yatsuhashi shops, Kyogoku Ichibangai, people can make their own yatsuhashi.
Otabe
In 1946, a confectionery retail store was started at the Kawaramachirokkaku. In1949, the store started to sell yatsuhashi. In 1969, the name of company has changed to “Otabe”. In 2010, Otabe’s Choco-Yatsuhashi won a special gold prize in Monde Selection.
Honke Nishio Yatsuhashi
The history of Honke Nishino Yatsuhashi began in 1687 in the Edo period, so three hundred years have passed. It has a long story. At the time, “Shiramochi” which is like old raw yatsuhashi was sold there.
List of women linguists
This is a list of women linguists by their country of origin. A linguist studies linguistics. Here in this list, this is the study of natural languages. These other people are not included in this list: polyglots (people fluent in several languages), grammarians (experts on prescriptive grammar), or language professionals such as translators or interpreters. Those are different professions.
Yatsuhashi
Honke Nishio Yatsuhashi
Besides these yatsuhashi stores, there are famous shops in Kyoto. They are 'Goden Yatsuhashi, 'Seikodo', 'Hakushindo', and 'HonkeNishio'.
Izutsu Yatsuhashi Honnpo
Izutsu Yatsuhashi: This is a confection from a famous shop shaped like a long Japanese zither with thirteen strings. It has been sold for more than 200 years.
Nama-Yatsuhashi: This is tender taste.
Yuko: This is a lyric confection containing bean jam. This is a Yatsuhashi which is associated with Yuko who is a heroine of “the gobantyo-yugirirou". Other tastes: strawberry, powdered green tea, chocolate and apple.
Otabe
Otabe: This Nama-Yatsuhashi uses rice grown in Fukui prefecture which is called "Koshihikari", Hokkaido adzuki bean, and water in Fukui prefecture. Other taste: chocolate, powdered green tea, salt, and sesami.
Yatsuhashi: This is a confection from Kyoto which has been loved by people since more than 300 years ago.
Choco-Yatsuhashi: This is the original confection of Otabe. Yatsuhashi is baked thin, and then it is coated in chocolate.
Pinhole camera
A pinhole camera is a camera without a conventional glass lens. An extremely small hole in a thin material can create an image when all light rays from a scene go through a single point. In order to produce a reasonably clear image, the aperture has to be about 1/100th the distance to the screen, or less. The shutter of a pinhole camera usually consists of a hand operated flap of some light-proof material to cover and uncover the pinhole.
Yatsuhashi
Otabe
Nama-Yatsuhashi: This is tender dough which is baked.
Sesame Street
Sesame Street is an American children's television series with many Muppets (puppet characters) and non-Muppet characters (human characters). There are also many animated characters. The show deals with issues like music, song, alphabet, numbers, and teaching children basics in learning, as well as more serious issues like death, divorce, HIV/AIDS, autism, and foster care. Part of the profits, go to an international project for children's schools.
The show has been on TV since January 1, 1969. Jim Henson made the Muppets and a lot of writers and puppeteers worked together to make the show. The Muppets were used afterwards in a different show called The Muppet Show. Sesame Street has been on TV in 120 countries all over the world. More than 4000 episodes have been made over 50 seasons. One unique feature of the show is that the episode number appears at the start of each episode.
For most of its history, Sesame Street had been shown on PBS. In 2015, new episodes began airing on HBO in January 2016, but those episodes would be shown on PBS nine months later. In 2020, Sesame Street aired on HBO for the last time. After five seasons on HBO Max, the show returns to PBS as its first-run program, for the newer episodes, starting with the 51st season.
Shutter (photography)
In photography, a shutter is the part of a camera that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in during taking a picture.
Sesame Street
The Puppets
Other muppets for Sesame Street include a girl fairy named Abby Cadabby, Murray, his lamb named Ovajita, Juila, and the Two-Headed Monster. Not only Muppets play in the show but also a diverse cast of human characters who live with the Muppets.
Shutter (photography)
Camera shutters
Camera shutters can be fitted in two positions:
Shutters immediately behind the lens were used in some cameras with limited lens interchangeability. Shutters in front of the lens were used in the early days of photography.
Yatsuhashi
Honke Nishio Yatsuhasi
Yatsuhashi: This is crisp. Tastes: powdered green tea, sesami, and banana.
Pocket-Yatsuhashi: This is a Yatsuhashi which you can carry in your pocket. Tastes: cacao, strawberry, and powdered green tea.
Ryan Miller
Ryan Miller (born July 17, 1980) is an American former ice hockey goaltender. He currently plays for the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has also played for the Buffalo Sabres, Vancouver Canucks, and St. Louis Blues.
Pinhole camera
A common use of a pinhole camera is to capture the movement of sunlight over a long period of time. This type of photography is called Solargraphy. Pinhole cameras require much longer exposure times than conventional cameras because of the small aperture; typical exposure times can range from 5 seconds to hours or days.
Ryan Miller
On July 1, 2014, Miller signed a three-year, $18 million contract with the Vancouver Canucks.
Pinhole camera
The image may be projected on a translucent screen for real-time viewing (popular for viewing solar eclipses; see also camera obscura).
Ryan Miller
On April 5, 2022, Miller announced that he was retiring from playing professional ice hockey at the end of the season. On May 8, 2021, Miller played his final game in the NHL in a 4-3 loss to the Minnesota Wild. On January 19, 2023, the Buffalo Sabres retired Miller's jersey number #30.
Altdorf, Lower Bavaria
Altdorf is a market town and municipality in Landshut, in Bavaria, Germany. It is 4 km northwest of Landshut.
Signal (electrical engineering)
The concept is broad, and hard to define precisely. Definitions specific to subfields are common. For example, in information theory, a signal is a codified message, i.e., the sequence of states in a communications channel that encodes a message. In a communications system, a transmitter encodes a message into a signal, which is carried to a receiver by the communications channel. For example, the words "Mary had a little lamb" might be the message spoken into a telephone. The telephone transmitter converts the sounds into an electrical voltage signal. The signal is transmitted to the receiving telephone by wires; and at the receiver it is reconverted into sounds.
References
Shannon, C. E., 2005 [1948], "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," (corrected reprint ), accessed Dec. 15, 2005. Orig. 1948, Bell System Technical Journal, vol. 27, pp. 379–423, 623-656.
Pestilence
Pestilence is a word that is used for any highly infectious disease that can cause an epidemic or even a pandemic. It is commonly used for parasites too, but only when they cause large scale sickness or death, such as the Guinea worm.
The word meant the disease plague, which is called pestis in Latin. It was used for the Black Death as well, an epidemic of the 14th century that killed Millions of people in Europe.
Power set
In mathematics, the power set of a set S, written as P(S) or, is the set of all subsets of S. In terms of cardinality, a power set is larger than the set it originates from. If S is a finite set with n elements, then P(S) would have 2^n elements.
Wong Tai Sin Temple (Guangzhou)
Wong Tai Sin Temple is a Taoist temple in Huadi County, Fangcun District, Guangzhou. It is dedicated to the Chinese deity Wong Tai Sin. It is a major tourist attraction. This temple is very famous in the Pearl River Delta.
Maru (cat)
Maru is a famous cat on the internet. He is from Japan and he is famous for sliding on his belly. A lot of people like to watch videos of Maru and look at pictures of him on his website. Maru also has a friend named Harry, who is a hedgehog.
Computer Algebra System
A computer algebra system (CAS) is a large computer program that helps people with mathematics and algebra. It changes and moves around (manipulates) mathematical equations and expressions containing numbers and symbols called variables. Variables can stand for known or unknown values that can be solved for, or can be replaced with any value. It always keeps the formula exactly the same mathematically as the original equation or expression, unless it is being transformed, by a transformation algorithm.
A CAS might be used for integration or differentiation (and other calculus transformations), simplification of an expression (making it smaller and/or simpler), optimizing and finding the minimum and maximum values of results or variables, etc. Most have the ability to plot functions and expressions for visualization, which can be helpful and educational too.
Numeric capabilities
Modern computer algebra systems often include extensive numeric capabilities for convenience and which fit together with its symbolic abilities. Numeric domains supported often include real, complex, interval, rational, and algebraic numbers.
Usually floating point arithmetic is available to use if desired, because the arithmetic is done by most computer hardware very quickly. The down-side of floating point arithmetic is that it is not always exact, and is mostly useless for rocket science, because of only 14 decimal digits of accuracy (with double precision floats), and because of a growing round-off error with each calculation, sometimes even less digits are accurate. Rational number arithmetic is exact if all numbers are rational. Interval arithmetic can be used to easily calculate the total possible error of an inexact arithmetic system. Complex number arithmetic is generally supported by allowing the imaginary unit (i) in expressions and following all of its algebraic rules.
Peter Navarro
Peter Kent Navarro (born July 15, 1949) is an American economist and author. He works in the Trump administration as the Assistant to the President, Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, and the national Defense Production Act policy coordinator.
He was a Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the White House National Trade Council, a newly created job in the executive branch of the U.S. government.
He is also a professor emeritus of economics and public policy at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, and the author of Death by China.
Government of New Zealand
The Government of New Zealand is a constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy. It is based on the Westminster system.
The head of state in New Zealand is the monarch of the United Kingdom. The monarch is represented by the Governor-General. The head of government is the Prime Minister. He is also a member of the Parliament of New Zealand. The current head of state is Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand; the current Prime Minister is Jacinda Ardern. The Prime Minister is the leader of the Cabinet.
Elections are held every 3 years.
New Zealand has been a self-governing country since 1853.
Kirby: Canvas Curse
Kirby: Canvas Curse, known in Japan as Touch! Kirby (タッチ!カービィ) and in PAL regions as Kirby: Power Paintbrush is a platform game made by HAL Laboratories and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS game console. It is about a character called Kirby who has to defeat a witch called Drawcia. The game is played using the touch screen only.
Plot
Kirby has to go into a painting to defeat an evil witch called Drawcia. He turns into a ball when he goes in, and the player has to use a magical item called the Power Paintbrush to help Kirby beat Drawcia.
Gameplay
The player uses the touch screen for everything. To move Kirby, the player has to touch him, making Kirby roll forward. The player can also draw lines with the stylus that Kirby can ride. Kirby will stick to them until they disappear, and these lines can be used to get Kirby higher or get Kirby across a pit. While Kirby games have Kirby eating enemies to get their powers, Canvas Curse does not do that. The player touches an enemy to stun it, and then has Kirby run into it. If it has a power, Kirby will gain it. To use the power, the player has to touch Kirby and he will use the power.
Altfraunhofen
Altfraunhofen is a municipality in Landshut in Bavaria in Germany.
Wong Tai Sin Temple (Hong Kong)
Wong Tai Sin Temple (黃大仙祠, or literally: the Temple for Big Deity Wong) is a famous temple in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The temple sits on land of about 18,000 m². This temple holds statue of Wong Chor Ping (黃初平) - a well-known celebrity of southern-China during East Jin Dynasty's time.
Lever-action firearms
Lever-action firearms are guns that hold multiple bullets and are loaded by pulling and pushing a lever at the bottom of the gun.
Lever-action rifles first became important weapons during the American Civil War. Two rifles made during this time were the Henry and Spencer rifles. They fired much more quickly and could be loaded much faster than muzzleloading rifles. However, their use was limited because many generals felt that the ability to shoot many bullets without reloading would cause soldiers to shoot with less accuracy. However, after the Civil War, lever-action guns became much more popular. They were popular with not just soldiers, but also with hunters and even civilians. They were so popular that the most famous lever-action rifle, the Winchester Model 1873, was called "the gun that won the West".
Both the militaries of the United States and the Russian Empire used lever-action guns often until the beginning of the 20th century. Even though lever action guns can fire much faster than bolt-action rifles (lever-actions can fire 2 rounds a second in skilled hands,) the bolt-action rifle was chosen to be the main gun for most infantry. This was because bolt-action rifles could easily be fired when soldiers are lying on the ground, but lever-actions cannot do so easily.
Lever-action guns were made for many different types of bullets, both pistol and rifle bullets. Most lever-action guns are rifles, but there are also lever-action shotguns as well. The most famous of these are the Winchester Model 1887.
Epistaxis
Epistaxis is when blood comes out of the nose. It is more commonly known as a nosebleed. Even though nosebleeds can seem scary, they are usually not serious or life threatening. Most nosebleeds happen in the front of the nose, and these are called anterior nosebleeds. Sometimes, people get nosebleeds in the back of their noses, called posterior nosebleeds. These are more serious, and somebody who has one may have to go to the hospital.
Nosebleeds are more frequent during the winter months. During this time, more upper respiratory infections occur and changes in temperature and humidity are larger.
Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory
Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory (abbreviated ZF) is a system of axioms used to describe set theory. When the axiom of choice is added to ZF, the system is called ZFC. It is the system of axioms used in set theory by most mathematicians today.
Epistaxis
What causes them
Most nosebleeds are caused by one of the following: They can also be caused by a reaction to something in the environment.
Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory
After Russell's paradox was found in the 1901, mathematicians wanted to find a way to describe set theory that did not have contradictions. Ernst Zermelo proposed a theory of set theory in 1908. In 1922, Abraham Fraenkel proposed a new version based on Zermelo's work.
Epistaxis
Dealing with a nosebleed
Many people tilt their heads back during a nosebleed, but this is actually not safe because it can make blood go down their throats and make them choke or get sick. Instead, the best way to deal with a nosebleed is to tilt one's head forward and pinch the bottom of their nose between one's nostrils with a wet piece of tissue paper.
Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory
Axioms
An axiom is a statement which is accepted without question, and which has no proof. ZF contains eight axioms.
Axiom of choice
The axiom of choice says that it is possible to take one object out of each of the elements of a set and make a new set. For example, given the set, the axiom of choice would show that a set such as \{3, 5\} exists. For finite sets, this axiom can be proved from the other axioms, but not for infinite sets.
Baierbach
Baierbach is a municipality in Landshut in Bavaria in Germany.
Jaime Lerner
Jaime Lerner (December 17, 1937 – May 27, 2021) was a Brazilian politician. He was the governor of the state of Paraná, in southern Brazil. He was an architect and urban planner. He was mayor of Curitiba, capital of Paraná, three times (1971–75, 1979–84 and 1989–92). In 1994, Lerner was elected governor of Paraná, and was reelected in 1998.
Lerner died of kidney disease on May 27, 2021, at the age of 83.
Adventure Time: Distant Lands
Adventure Time: Distant Lands is the name for four hour-long web television specials based on the American animated television series Adventure Time, which was created by Pendleton Ward and originally aired on Cartoon Network from 2010 to 2018.
Gatling gun
The Minigun is based on the Gatling gun. The Gatling gun is a machine gun, but it is not called an automatic weapon because a user must continue to crank it instead of merely holding down the trigger. Still it was very useful in the wars.
Adventure Time: Distant Lands
The specials are produced by Cartoon Network Studios and Frederator Studios and will be released on HBO Max starting June 25, 2020.
The series is about the adventures of Finn (a human boy) and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and size at will. The show will also include Princess Bubblegum, Marceline the Vampire Queen, and BMO.
Eva Krížiková
Krížiková died on March 31, 2020 in Malacky, Slovakia at the age of 85.
Louise Ebrel
Louise Ebrel (27 July 1932 – 30 March 2020) was a French singer and guitarist. She was born at Treffrin in the Côtes-du-Nord. From 1991 to 2006 she worked with singer-poet Denez Prigent in concerts, both as a duo and with his musical group.
Beginning in 1996 she performed with Ifig Flatrès in kan ha diskan at festoù noz. In 2006 she began performing on Breton stages with the punk group Les Ramoneurs de menhirs and the rockers of Red Cardell.
Plymouth Fury
The Plymouth Fury is an American car produced by Plymouth of Chrysler from the 1959 to 1978 model years.
The Plymouth Sport Fury is a top-model of the Fury made from 1959 and 1962 to 1971.
The Plymouth VIP is a luxury version of the Fury made from 1966 to 1969.
The Plymouth Fury was succeeded by the Plymouth Gran Fury in the late 1970s.
A 1958 Plymouth Fury was famous for the 1983 horror movie Christine.
Great American Interchange
The Great American Interchange was an important zoogeographic event about three million years ago. Land and freshwater fauna migrated between North America and South America.
The migration happened during the Pliocene, 3.6–2.6 million years ago (mya). The volcanic Isthmus of Panama rose from the seafloor and bridged the two continents.
The land bridge in what is now Panama joined the Neotropic (roughly South America) and Nearctic (roughly North America) ecozones to form the Americas.
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Great American Interchange
The interchange is visible from both stratigraphy and nature. Its most dramatic effect is on the distribution of mammals, but weak-flying or flightless birds, reptiles, amphibians, arthropods and even freshwater fish also migrated.
The differences in the fauna of North and South America had been known for some time. Both Humboldt and Darwin discussed it. The interchange as a concept was first fully laid out in 1876 by the "father of biogeography", Alfred Russel Wallace. Wallace had spent 1848–1852 exploring and collecting specimens in the Amazon Basin. Others who made significant contributions to understanding the event in the century that followed include Florentino Ameghino and George Gaylord Simpson.
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Great American Interchange
Plate tectonics
When the global continent Pangaea broke up early in the Jurassic period, the great southern supercontinent Gondwana was formed. It separated from Laurasia 200–180 mya.
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Great American Interchange
Plate tectonics
In stages, Gondwana also broke up, eventually into half-a-dozen continents we recognise today. They were Australasia, Indian subcontinent, Africa, Madagascar, Antarctica and South America.
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Great American Interchange
Plate tectonics
South America drifted west from Africa, starting about 130 mya in the Lower Cretaceous. There was open sea between them by 110 mya. The last connection of South America with any part of Gondwana was a link with West Antarctica, which broke in the Oligocene, only 30 mya.
Relevance to biogeography
When Gondwana was separated from Laurasia, evolution of most animals and plants went on separately in the two great supercontinents. Later, as Gondwana broke up, most of its fauna and flora also evolved separately.
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Great American Interchange
Relevance to biogeography
This is not obvious in Africa and India, since they moved north and joined the Eurasian continent long ago. Animals and plants moved north and south there also, but the original pattern is now hard to see. But in Australasia and South America the pattern is clear.
The mammals are a good example. Eutherian mammals evolved in Laurasia but few got to Gondwana before it was separated. Earlier groups of mammals did get to Gondwana. They were the marsupials, the monotremes and other (now extinct) therian mammals.
Plymouth (automobile)
Plymouth was a brand of automobiles based in the United States, produced by the Chrysler Corporation and its successor DaimlerChrysler. The brand was founded in 1928 and ended in 2001.
Great American Interchange
Relevance to biogeography
Thus, when South America was completely separated, it had only the earlier types of mammals, including some early eutherians such as the Xenarthra. The groups which evolved later, and which dominate the northern continents, only got to South America by the Great American Interchange.
Oswald Mosley
Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980) was a British fascist politician.
Great American Interchange
South America's endemic fauna
After the late Mesozoic breakup of Gondwana, South America spent most of the Cainozoic era as an island continent.
Oswald Mosley
He rose to fame in the 1920s as a Member of Parliament and later became disillusioned with mainstream politics.
Great American Interchange
South America's endemic fauna
Its "splendid isolation" allowed the fauna to evolve into many forms found nowhere else on earth, most of which are now extinct.
Oswald Mosley
He became the leader of the British Union of Fascists (BUF). Mosley was the sixth baronet to hold the title, which had been in his family for over a century.
Great American Interchange
Early mammals
The endemic mammals initially consisted of metatherians (including marsupials, xenarthrans, and a diverse group of South American ungulates.
Oswald Mosley
After belonging to both the Conservative Party and the Labour Party, Mosley set up his "New Party", which became the British Union of Fascists. He was anti-semitic (against jews), and there were street riots in London and Leicester in 1935.
Mosley was interned in May 1940, and the BUF was banned. He was released in 1943. Internment is putting people in prison to prevent their being able to act against the national interest. Its main use is to protect public safety. It has not been done in Britain since WWII.
Great American Interchange
Early mammals
Marsupials appear to have travelled from South America through Antarctica to Australasia in the late Cretaceous or early Tertiary.
Ratites (relatives of South American tinamous) probably migrated by this route about the same time, in the direction from South America towards Australia/New Zealand.
Other taxa that may have dispersed by the same route (if not by flying or rafting) are parrots, chelid turtles and (extinct) meiolaniid turtles.
One living South American marsupial, the tiny Monito del Monte, is more closely related to Australian marsupials than to other South American marsupials. Since it is the most 'basal' (= primitive) australidelphian we know, its group probably evolved in South America and then colonized Australia.
A 61 mya old platypus-like monotreme fossil from Patagonia may be an Australian immigrant.
Marsupials in South America included didelphimorphs (opossums), shrew opossums and several other small groups.
Predators
Sparassodonts shared the ecological niches for large predators with fearsome flightless "terror birds" (phorusrhacids), whose closest extant (living) relatives are the seriemas. Terrestrial ziphodont crocodilians were also present at least through the middle Miocene. Some of South America's aquatic crocodilians reached monstrous sizes, with lengths up to 12 m.
Through the skies over late Miocene South America (6 Ma ago) soared the largest flying bird known, the teratorn Argentavis, with a wingspan of 6 m or more, which may have lived in part on the leftovers of Thylacosmilus kills.
Later herbivores
Xenarthrans are a curious group of mammals that developed morphological adaptations for specialized diets very early in their history.
In addition to those extant today (armadillos, anteaters and tree sloths), a great diversity of larger types were present, including pampatheres, the ankylosaur-like glyptodonts, various ground sloths, some of which reached the size of elephants (e.g. Megatherium), and even semiaquatic sloths.