The National Olympic Committee for Nicaragua ("Comité Olímpico Nicaragüense") was formed in 1959; and it was recognized by the International Olympic Committee the same year.
Nicaragua was first at the Olympic Games in 1968.
Teams from Nicaragua have been in every Summer Olympic Games since 1968, except when they boycotted the 1988 Games in support of North Korea. The nation has never been in the Winter Olympic Games.
As of 2012, Nicaragua has never won an Olympic medal.
The baseball team finished in fourth place at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Panama at the Olympics
Panama at the Olympics is a history which includes 16 games in 14 countries and 70+ athletes. Since 1928, Panama has contributed to the growth of the "Olympic Movement".
The International Olympic Committee's official abbreviation for Panama is PAN.
A team from Panama was first at the 1928 Summer Olympics. They have been in 12 Summer Olympic Games, but none of the Winter Olympic Games.
Paraguay at the Olympics
Paraguay at the Olympics is a history which includes 11 games in 10 countries and 90+ athletes. Since 1970, the Paraguay has contributed to the growth of the "Olympic Movement".
The International Olympic Committee's official abbreviation for Paraguay is PAR.
The Paraguay National Olympic Committee was formed in 1970. It was recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1970.
Paraguay's team first competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.
Paraguay athletes have been in every Summer Olympic Games since 1968, except the boycotted 1980 Summer Olympics. They have never been in the Winter Olympic Games.
The nation has only ever won one medal, the silver medal in the men's football in Athens.
Peru at the Olympics
Peru at the Olympics is a history which includes 20 games in 15 countries and 300+ athletes. Since 1900, the Peru has contributed to the growth of the "Olympic Movement".
The International Olympic Committee's official abbreviation for Peru is PER.
The Peru National Olympic Committee was formed in 1924. It was recognized by the International Olympic Committee in 1936.
Peru's team first competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris.
Since 1936, the nation has been in all but one Summer Olympic Games. Peru was in the Winter Olympic Games in 2010.
Afsharid dynasty
The Afsharid dynasty (Persian: افشاریان‎) was an Iranian dynasty that originated from the Turkoman.From Afshar Turkoman tribe in Iran's north-eastern province of Khorasan, ruling Iran (Persia) in the mid-eighteenth century. The dynasty was founded in 1736 by the brilliant military commander Nader Shah, who deposed the last member of the Safavid dynasty and proclaimed himself as the Shah of Iran.
At its height it controlled modern-day Iran, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan Republic, parts of the North Caucasus (Dagestan), Afghanistan, Bahrain, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Pakistan, and parts of Iraq, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Oman. After his death, most of his empire was divided between the Zands, Durranis, Georgians, and the Caucasian khanates, while Afsharid rule was confined to a small local state in Khorasan. Finally, the Afsharid dynasty was overthrown by Mohammad Khan Qajar in 1796, who would establish a new native Iranian empire and restore Iranian suzerainty over several of the aforementioned regions.
The dynasty was named after the Turcoman Afshar tribe from Khorasan in north-east Iran, to which Nader belonged. The Afshars had originally migrated from Turkestan to Azerbaijan (Iranian Azerbaijan) in the 13th century. In the early 17th century, Shah Abbas the Great moved many Afshars from Azerbaijan to Khorasan to defend the north-eastern borders of his state against the Uzbeks, after which the Afshars settled in those regions. Nader belonged to the Qereqlu branch of the Afshars.
List of countries by oil use
This is a list of countries by oil use mostly based on The World Factbook website.
Digital Living Network Alliance
The Digital Living Network Alliance is a trade-association, which was established by Sony in 2003. As of 2011, over 250 companies are part of this organization. The idea of the association is to develop standards and technologies that make it possible that several devices at home interact, so that the consumer has a better feeling. An example might be a television, that can be used to play a film on a computer, or to show photos stored on a mobile phone.
Polymerase chain reaction
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a way to make many copies of a sequence of DNA (this is sometimes called 'amplifying' the DNA). It is done in a lab, using an enzyme called DNA polymerase. It is called chain reaction because the result of one cycle is used immediately for the next cycle. This allows exponential growth to happen.
PCR has many uses in a biological or biochemical setting. Because DNA is unique for every living thing, experimenters can often extract only small amounts of the DNA they are interested in from a specimen. These amounts are usually too little to be useful, and so a scientist will use PCR to make enough copies to start experimenting with. For this reason, it is one of the most common techniques used in genetics labs around the world, making it useful in experiments on many things, including gene therapy, infectious diseases, and even forensics.
This process was developed in 1983 by Kary Mullis. He was not the first person to develop the PCR process, but he was the first to make the process usable. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in the PCR process. It was a joint award, the other scientist being Michael Smith, who worked on a related project.
The method consists of repeated heating and cooling, causing "melting" (separation of the two strands) and replication of the original DNA, also called a template. Short DNA fragments consisting of DNA sequences complementary to the ends of the template, called primers, and a DNA polymerase are key materials for selective and repetitive steps.
The technique proceeds in three steps:
After the first cycle, there are 4 DNA strands. The process repeats with the 4 DNA strands, which will go on to make 8 strands, then repeat itself again to make 16 strands. In this way, PCR doubles the amount of DNA in a sample after each cycle, making it possible to obtain millions of copies of a DNA strand overnight.
Presidio of Ahu
Presidio of Ahú was a prison in the city of Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
It was the first prison in Curitiba, opened in 1905
. Closed in 2006, now is the site of recordings for film and television, such as:
Apocrita
Apocrita is a suborder of insects in the order Hymenoptera, the other being the Symphyta.
Included in the Apocrita are the ants, bees, wasps, braconids, ichneumons, chalcids, nearly all parasitic hymenopterans, and a few other forms. The suborder includes the most highly evolved members of the order. There are well over a hundred thousand species distributed worldwide.
Jejemon
A Jejemon (tl: ) is a type of person in the Philippines who makes the English language hard to read. The "Philippine Daily Inquirer" call them different but happy because of their language and clothes.
The word "Jejemon" came from people who like to write "hehehe" as "jejeje" because "jeje" is Spanish for hehe due to the sound J makes in Spanish. "-Mon" is added at the end. This is from the Japanese anime Pokémon. "-Mon" means "monster." They are "jeje-monsters."
Jejemons started to appear because of cellphones. Cellphones can only use 160 characters so people who use them write shorter words to save space. Jejemons don't want this so they made their words longer. Most Jejemons are poor.
People who are Jejemons are described based on levels. These are "mild," "moderate", "severe", or "terminal."