A sounding line is a way to measure the depth, usually inside a body of water. The basic concept is that of a weight attached to a long rope.
Structural violence
Structural violence is when a social structure or social institution hurts people by preventing them from getting their basic needs.
Unlike physical violence, there is no bloodshed and is not very obvious. However, people are still hurt and structural violence is tied to physical violence in a lot of ways.
A lot of social institutions are run by people who come from the advantaged classes. They want to make the social structures work for them so they make it hard for disadvantaged groups to live in society.
Yoho National Park
Yoho National Park is a national park in British Columbia, Canada. It is in the Canadian Rockies. The park has large ice fields and mountains, as well as many waterfalls. The name "Yoho" comes from a Cree word that is said in awe, probably because of the beauty of the area. It is to the north of the Kootenay National Park and to the west of the Banff National Park in Alberta. The park is part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site.
Arizona's 2nd congressional district
Arizona's 2nd congressional district is a congressional district in southeast Arizona. It is one of 9 districts in Arizona and 435 in the USA. It is represented in the House of Representatives by Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick, and includes the city of Tucson. It has a CPVI of R+1.
Arizona's 3rd congressional district
Arizona's 3rd congressional district is a district in southwestern Arizona. It is one of 9 districts in Arizona and one of 435 in the US. It has a CPVI of D+13, and is represented by Raúl Grijalva.
Hamber Provincial Park
Hamber Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia. It is next to Jasper National Park and the border with Alberta. It has an area of about . It is part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site. The Trans-Canada Highway was built a different way to make sure it didn't go through the park.
Mukden Palace
The Mukden Palace (), also known as the Shenyang Imperial Palace (), was a former imperial palace for the emperor of the Qing dynasty. It became part of UNESCO World Heritage List in in 2004. It was added to the Imperial Palace of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Forbidden City, Beijing.
It was built in 1625 for the for the early Qing dynasty who ruled the Manchu. China's first three Qing emperors lived there between 1625 to 1644. After the fall of dynasties in China, the place was turned into a museum. It is at the center of Shenyang, Liaoning.
Some items that are inside the place:
Terrestrial television
Terrestrial television is a type of television broadcasting where the television signal is sent by radio waves from a transmitter on the land. In North America, it is usually called over-the-air television (OTA). This type of TV is different to newer types such as satellite, cable, and IPTV.
TV is broadcast between 52 and 600 MHz in the VHF and UHF radio bands. This can be sent in digital or the older analog format. Many countries switched (or are switching) to digital and turned off the analog signals.
Shinichi Oishi
Shinichi Oishi is a Japanese mathematician at Waseda University. He is also the director of Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and Japan Society for Simulation Technology.
Oishi has done many studies in numerical analysis and their branches:
Deadline - U.S.A.
Deadline - U.S.A. is a 1952 American crime drama movie directed by Richard Brooks and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Ed Begley, Warren Stevens, Martin Gabel, James Dean, Fay Baker. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox.
Les Misérables (1998 movie)
Les Misérables is a 1998 British German American romantic drama movie directed by Bille August and is based on the 1862 novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. It stars Geoffrey Rush, Liam Neeson, Uma Thurman, Claire Danes, Patsy Byrne, Ralph Nossek, Kathleen Byron, Hans Matheson, John McGlynn.
Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter
Anne of York (10 August, 1439 – 1476) was a member of the House of York in England, a branch of the English Royal Family. She was the second and eldest surviving daughter of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and Cecily Neville, Duchess of York.
Stephenson 2-18
Stephenson 2-18 (St2-18, also known as Stephenson 2-18 and RSGC2-18) is a red supergiant (RSG) star. It is close to, and a possible member of, the open cluster Stephenson 2. It is about 6,000 parsecs (20,000 ly) away from Earth in the constellation of Scutum and is one of the largest known stars.
It is also one of the most luminous of its type. It has a radius of 2,150 times that of the Sun, and has a volume 10 billion times that of the Sun.
This star has a spectral type of M6, which is pretty unusual for a supergiant star and corresponds to its cool temperature of 3,200 Kelvin.
List of museums in Baku
This is a list of museums in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan.
Qeysar (movie)
Qeysar (, meaning "Caesar") is a 1969 Iranian crime drama movie directed by Masoud Kimiai and starring Behrouz Vossoughi, Pouri Banai, Nasser Malekmotei, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Bahman Mofid.
Genopole
Genopole is a biocluster in France for biotherapies, research in genetics, genomics, post-genomics and for biotechnology companies. It is located in Évry-Courcouronnes.
In 2018, the Genopole has 17 academic research laboratories, 87 biotechnology companies, as well as 20 scientific platforms shared with the University of Évry Val d'Essonne.
Indiana Dunes National Park
Indiana Dunes National Park is a national park in Indiana, United States. Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is known for its beautiful beaches.
More than 3.5 million people visit a sandy, hilly area called Indiana Dunes each year. It sits along the shores of Lake Michigan, about southeast of Chicago. Visitors to the area swim and sail on the lake. They watch birds in the wetlands. They study plant life in the forests of oak and maple trees. Now, the 6,000-hectare site is the newest national park, and also 61st national park in the United States. It became Indiana Dunes National Park on February 15, 2019.
The park used to be known as Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, managed by National Park service. The related act in February, 2019 did not influence finance and the area of the park at all. It changed the name from Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore into Indiana Dunes National Park. It does, however, give the area the same recognition as more well-known national parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite.
The park is one of the most ecologically mixed places in North America. Indiana Dunes has about 1,500 different kinds of plants.
The Dunes are also along a major migration path, and birdwatching is a big reason visitors come to Indiana Dunes each year. The area is home to more than 300 species of birds. The birds include waterbirds such as loons and herons, as well as birds of prey like bald eagles and hawks. Several species of songbirds also live there.
In winter season, people living near by or visitors enjoy collecting sap from maple trees in the park in order to make maple syrup. Sap is a liquid containing sugar inside the trees. People can get sap by making a small hole in a tree. Maple tree sap was historically collected by local American Indians, pioneers and early residents of a farm.
A Maple Sugar Time festival is held in March every year. visitors can learn how American Indians first boiled maple sap into sugar, and how early settlers used large iron kettles to make syrup. Pure maple syrup and sugar, and related products like maple-flavored popcorn and maple water, are for sale.
Tilehurst Water Tower
Tilehurst Water Tower was erected by Reading Borough Council in 1932. It is estimated to hold approximate 900,000 litres of water.