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Logarithmic scale 
 Some of our senses operate in a logarithmic fashion (multiplying the actual input strength adds a constant to the perceived signal strength, see: Stevens' power law).
Logarithmic scale 
 In particular, our sense of hearing perceives equal multiples of frequencies as equal differences in pitch.
Logarithmic scale 
 On most logarithmic scales, small multiples (or ratios) of the underlying quantity correspond to small (possibly negative) values of the logarithmic measure.
Logarithmic scale 
 Richter magnitude scale and moment magnitude scale (MMS) for strength of earthquakes and movement in the earth.
Logarithmic scale 
 rating low probabilities by the number of 'nines' in the decimal expansion of the probability of their not happening: for example, a system which will fail with a probability of 10−5 is 99.999% reliable: "five nines".
Logarithmic scale 
 Some logarithmic scales were designed such that large values (or ratios) of the underlying quantity correspond to small  values of the logarithmic measure.
Logarithmic scale 
 A logarithmic scale is also a graphical scale on one or both sides of a graph where a number x is printed at a distance c·log(x)  from the point marked with the number 1.
Logarithmic scale 
 On a logarithmic scale an equal difference in order of magnitude is represented by an equal distance.
Logarithmic scale 
 Plots on paper with one log scale can show up exponential laws, and on log-log paper power laws, as straight lines (see semilog graph, log-log graph).
Noodle soup 
 Ban mian - popular in China, Malaysia and Singapore; a noodle soup with flat noodles, egg, and usually vegetables.
Scale (ratio) 
 The scale of a map shows the ratio between the distances on the map and the corresponding distances in reality.
Scale (ratio) 
 When a drawing or model or photograph of an object is larger or smaller than the original, the scale represents how much the object has been "grown" or "shrunk".
Scale 
 Architect's scale — (or draughtsman's scale) is a ruler-like device, which facilitates the production of technical drawings.
Scale 
 Mizan or Balance is a comprehensive treatise on the contents of Islam written by Javed Ahmed Ghamidi, a Pakistani Sunni Islamic scholar.
Scale 
 The Hounsfield Scale is a linear transformation of the original linear attenuation coefficient measurement into one in which the radio-density of distilled water at standard pressure and temperature (STP) is defined as zero Hounsfield units (HU), while the radiodensity of air at STP is defined as -1000 HU.
Scale 
 One degree Brix is 1 gram of sucrose in 100 grams of solution and represents the strength of the solution as percentage by mass.
Scale 
 Okta (cloud cover) - a unit of measurement used to describe the amount of cloud cover at any given location such as a weather station.
Scale 
 Sky conditions are estimated in terms of how many eighths of the sky are covered in cloud, ranging from 0 oktas (completely clear sky) through to 8 oktas (completely overcast).
Scale 
 The Apgar score is determined by evaluating the newborn baby on five simple criteria on a scale from zero to two, then summing up the five values thus obtained.
Scale 
 The five criteria are summarized using words chosen to form a backronym (Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respiration).
Scale (map) 
 A map scale is the size of an object compared to the size of the object's smaller representative on a map.
Scale (map) 
 This can be shown by a scale bar and a ratio 1:n. The reader can measure a distance on the map to know what is the distance on the ground.
Scale (map) 
 For example, an island displayed on a 1:10,000 map will appear larger than if it were displayed on a 1:25,000 map.
Scale (map) 
 What can be confusing is that for a map of a given physical size, say 11 by 17 inches, a "large scale" map will have a smaller geographic extent than a "small scale" map centred on the same point.
Scale (map) 
 Maps with a ratio of 1:50 000 or larger (for example, 1:40 000 would be larger) are considered large scale.
Midnight sun 
 Midnight sun is a phenomenon that exists north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle.
Midnight sun 
 There are no people living permanently south of the Antarctic Circle, but in Alaska, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, and some other countries it is possible to watch the Midnight sun in the summer.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono 
 General Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (born 9 September 1949), is an Indonesian retired military general and politician.
Order of the Garter 
 Membership in the Order is limited to those people who have done many great things for the United Kingdom.
Order of the Garter 
 He or she is known as the Sovereign of the Garter, and the Prince of Wales is known as a Knight Companion of the Garter.
Order of the Garter 
 Knights Companion can use the title "Sir" before their first name, and their wives can use the title "Lady" before their surnames.
Order of the Garter 
 Ladies Companion can use the title "Lady" before their first name, but their husbands cannot use any title.
HD DVD 
 HD DVD, also known as High-Definition DVD, is an optical disc that is able to store large amounts of data, such as high-definition videos.
HD DVD 
 It used to compete against the Blu-ray Disc, a similar version of an optical disc that is designed to hold large amounts of media, but all of the companies that backed it decided to only use Blu-ray discs, so the HD DVD format is now considered dead.
HD DVD 
 HD-DVD Winning the European Race at Next Generation - Interactive Entertainment Today (Tuesday, 10 April 2007)
Immortality 
 Stories about immortal people or animals are popular in fiction and mythology, but not yet actually possible.
Immortality 
 Others feel that death is what defines all living things, and as a natural part of life, should not be taken away.
Immortality 
 Insurance actuaries have calculated that even if everyone were physically immortal, the average life span would still be only be 400 years because of the accident rate; eventually, everyone would die of a fatal accident and it would be very unusual to encounter anyone more than 800 years old.
Immortality 
 Therefore, it would seem that the only practical way to achieve actual immortality is to upload one's mind into a supercomputer to live in virtual reality.
Immortality 
 Futurists such as Ray Kurzweil believe this will become possible about the year 2045 in the technological singularity.
Immortality 
 The color amaranth represents immortality in Western civilization, while the color peach represents immortality in Chinese civilization.
Immortality 
 Immortality Institute - Advocacy and Research on Indefinite Lifespan Scientific and sociological discussions, activism, research
European Union budget 
 The European Union (EU) has an independent parliament and civil service which is distinct from those of the 27 member states.
European Union budget 
 The EU has three elements to its government: the Council of Ministers, the European Commission and the European Parliament.
European Union budget 
 Traditional own resources are taxes raised on behalf of the EU as a whole, principally import duties on goods brought into the EU.
European Union budget 
 VAT based own resources are taxes on EU citizens as a proportion of Value added tax in each member country.
European Union budget 
 VAT rates and exemptions vary in different countries, so a formula is used to create the 'harmonised tax base'.
European Union budget 
 The largest single expenditure item is the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) at around 45% of the total budget.
European Union budget 
 Expenditures, revenues and procedures are all inconsistent with the present and future state of EU integration." -
Golden Gloves 
 The Golden Gloves is the name given to competitions held every year for amateur boxing in the United States.
Golden Gloves 
 The Golden Gloves is often the term used to refer to the National Golden Gloves competition, but it can also mean a few other amateur tournaments, including regional golden gloves tournaments and other notable tournaments such as the Intercity Golden Gloves, the Chicago Golden Gloves, and the New York Golden Gloves.
Golden Gloves 
 There is also a Silver Gloves amateur tournament, which is for young amateur male boxers age 8 to 15 years old.
Sonny Liston 
 He was a boxer who was disliked by much of the public because of his criminal history and rumored association with organized crime characters.
Sonny Liston 
 He lost the championship to Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) when he quit in his corner before the start of the seventh round in their 1964 fight.
Buckwheat 
 Buckwheat is referred to as a pseudocereal because its seeds are used in cooking the same as cereals, because they have complex carbohydrates.
Buckwheat 
 The cultivation of buckwheat grain declined sharply in the 20th century with the adoption of nitrogen fertilizer which increased the productivity of other staples.
Kinston Indians 
 - Over the years, this publication has also been known as Carolina League Media Guide and Record Book and Carolina League Directory and Record Book
Columbia University 
 Columbia University (officially Columbia University in the City of New York) is a research university in the United States.
Columbia University 
 After the American Revolution it was renamed "Columbia College" in 1784 and renamed once again to "Columbia University" in 1896 when it moved to its current location in Morningside Heights.
Columbia University 
 Ninety-Six Nobel Prize winners have been at Columbia, the second most in the United States after Harvard University.
Columbia University 
 Five Founding Fathers attended Columbia: Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Robert Livingston, Gouverneur Morris and Egbert Benson.
Columbia University 
 Three U.S. Presidents have attended Columbia: Barack Obama, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Columbia University 
 Ten Supreme Court Justices have attended Columbia including the most recent Associate Justice, Neil Gorsuch, and the first Chief Justice, John Jay.
Columbia University 
 Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and College of Dental Medicine are in Washington Heights in Northern Manhattan.
Columbian Exchange 
 The Columbian Exchange, sometimes called the Grand Exchange was the exchange of goods and ideas from Europe, Africa, and Asia and goods and ideas from the Americas.
Columbian Exchange 
 By the  1840s, Ireland was so dependent on the potato that a diseased crop led to the devastating Irish Potato Famine.
Columbian Exchange 
 The first European import to the Americas, the horse, changed the lives of many Native American tribes on the Great Plains, letting them to change to a nomadic lifestyle based on hunting bison on horseback.
Columbian Exchange 
 Italy became famous for its Tomato sauce, made from New World tomatoes, while coffee from Africa and sugarcane from Asia became the main crops of very large Latin American plantations.
Columbian Exchange 
 Also the chili and paprika from South America was introduced in India by the Portuguese and it is today an important part of Indian cuisine.
Columbian Exchange 
 Before the Columbian Exchange, there were no oranges in Florida, no bananas in Ecuador, no paprika in Hungary, no zucchini in Italy, no pineapples in Hawaii, no rubber trees in Africa, no cattle in Texas, no chili peppers in Thailand and India, no cigarettes in France and no chocolate in Switzerland.
Columbian Exchange 
 Before there was regular communication between the two hemispheres, the different types of domesticated animals and diseases were more numerous in the Old World than in the New.
Columbian Exchange 
 The Columbian Exchange: Plants, Animals, and Disease between the Old and New Worlds in the Encyclopedia of Earth by Alfred W. Crosby
Ragusa 
 Ragusa is the capital of the Province of Ragusa in Italy, with 72,808 inhabitants in the city and more than 310,000 in the province area.
Elliott Carter 
 He recently composed a piece called Interventions for Piano and Orchestra which was given its first performance in the Symphony Hall, Boston where it was played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Levine with the pianist Daniel Barenboim as soloist.
Elliott Carter 
 The same players played it again a week later on December 11, 2008 in the Carnegie Hall, New York to celebrate Carter's 100th birthday.
Elliott Carter 
 He then went to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger, returning to the US in 1935 where he directed the Ballet Caravan.
Elliott Carter 
 Carter has taught music and other related subjects in a number of well-known places including the Peabody Conservatory, Columbia University, Queen’s College, New York, Yale University and the Julliard School.
Elliott Carter 
 When Carter went to study in Paris in the early 1930s Stravinsky was the most famous composer who worked there.
Elliott Carter 
 Carter was influenced to some extent by Stravinsky’s music as well as by that of his friend Charles Ives, but he worked hard to find a style of his own.
Elliott Carter 
 Some of his music during the Second World War is quite tonal, but his later music uses more atonality (music not in any key) and has complicated rhythms.
Elliott Carter 
 His best known works include the Variations for Orchestra (1954-5); the Double Concerto for harpsichord, piano and two chamber orchestras (1959-61); the Piano Concerto (1964-65), written as an 85th birthday present for Igor Stravinsky; the Concerto for Orchestra (1969) and A Symphony of Three Orchestras (1976).
Dubrovnik 
 The Italian name of the city is still "Ragusa"; this sometimes leads to confusion because there is already a city named Ragusa on Sicily.
Dubrovnik 
 Because of its age and unique buildings, the old city of Dubrovnik has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Dubrovnik 
 The old city of Ragusa was started by Greeks who left Illirya after their home was invaded in the sixth century.
Dubrovnik 
 Ragusa was once the only city in Dalmatia with Roman influence not to be controlled by the Republic of Venice.
Dubrovnik 
 After the Middle Ages more and more Croats and Serbs from inland areas of Bosnia-Herzegovina moved to the area.
Dubrovnik 
 The original population (the Dalmatian Italians) was reduced to the few people of the ruling class: in the 19th century nearly all the people living in Ragusa were Slavs (Croats and Serbs).
Dubrovnik 
 Ragusa officially changed its name to "Dubrovnik" (a Croatian name) after 1918, when the city became part of the newly created country of Yugoslavia.
Dubrovnik 
 Dubrovnik is famous for its Old Town - this is an ancient fortress with large stone walls, which helped Dubrovnik keep its freedom for many centuries.
Dubrovnik 
 There was a major earthquake in 1667 that destroyed many buildings, but the people living there were able to rebuild the town.
Sichuan pepper 
 Although the plants are called peppers, they are not related to either black pepper or Chili pepper.
Sichuan pepper 
 Sichuan pepper is widely used in food from Sichuan, China, from which it takes its name, as well as Tibetan, Bhutani, and Japanese food cultures, among others.
Sichuan pepper 
 Recipes say that sichuan pepper should be slightly toasted, then crushed, before it is added to food.
Sichuan pepper 
 Ma la (; literally "numb and hot"), a flavour common in Sichuan cooking, is a combination of Sichuan pepper and chili pepper.
Sichuan pepper 
 The preferred recipe includes ginger oil and brown sugar to be cooked with a base of noodles and vegetables, with rice vinegar and Sichuan pepper oil to be added after cooking.
Sichuan pepper 
 Hua jiao yan is a mixture of salt and Sichuan pepper, roasted and browned in a wok and served as a condiment to accompany chicken, duck and pork dishes.
Sichuan pepper 
 Sichuan pepper is one of the few spices which are important for Tibetan and Bhutanese cookery of the Himalayas.
Sichuan pepper 
 One Himalayan specialty is the momo, a dumpling stuffed with vegetables, cottage cheese or minced yak meat, beef or pork and flavoured with Sichuan pepper, garlic, ginger and onion.
Sichuan pepper 
 In Japan the dried and powdered leaves of Zanthoxylum sancho are used to make noodle dishes and soups mildly hot and fragrant.
Sichuan pepper 
 The whole leaves, kinome, are used to flavour vegetables, especially bamboo shoots, and to decorate soups.
Sichuan pepper 
 From 1968 to 2005, the United States Food and Drug Administration banned the importation of Sichuan peppercorns because they were found to be capable of carrying citrus canker (as the tree is in the same family, Rutaceae, as the genus Citrus).
Sichuan pepper 
 This bacterial disease, which is very difficult to control, could potentially harm the foliage and fruit of citrus crops in the U.S. It was never an issue of harm in human consumption.
Sichuan pepper 
 In 2005, the USDA and FDA lifted the ban, provided the peppercorns are heated to around 70 degrees Celsius (160 degrees Fahrenheit) to kill the canker bacteria before importation.
Antiparticle 
 In the example of the neutron, the 'ordinary' particle is made out of quarks and the antiparticle out of antiquarks.
Antiparticle 
 These processes are used in  particle accelerators to create new particles and to test theories of particle physics.
Antiparticle 
 The word antimatter properly refers to (elementary) antiparticles, composite antiparticles made with them (such as antihydrogen) and to larger assemblies of either.
Antiparticle 
 In 1932, soon after the prediction of positrons by Paul Dirac, Carl Anderson found that cosmic-ray collisions produced these particles in a cloud chamber  a particle detector in which moving electrons (or positrons) leave behind trails as they move through the gas.
Antiparticle 
 The antiproton and antineutron were found by Emilio Segrè and Owen Chamberlain in 1955 at the University of California, Berkeley.
Antiparticle 
 Since then the antiparticles of many other subatomic particles have been created in particle accelerators.
Antiparticle 
 In recent years, complete atoms of antimatter have been assembled out of antiprotons and positrons, collected in electromagnetic traps.
Antiparticle 
 Feynman, Richard P. The reason for antiparticles, in The 1986 Dirac memorial lectures, R.P. Feynman and S. Weinberg.
Hamo Beknazarian 
 Hamo Beknazarian, also known as Hamo Bek Nazarov (born May 19, 1891 in Yerevan, died April 27, 1965 in Moscow) was an Armenian movie director.
Hamo Beknazarian 
 Between 1914 and 1918, he played about 70 parts, becoming a popular actor in pre-Revolutionary Russian movie.
Hamo Beknazarian 
 In 1920, instead of going to Armenia as he planned, he went to Tbilisi, where he developed a movie department for Georgian Commissioner's office of Public Education.
Hamo Beknazarian 
 A movie about an 18th-century Armenian hero, David Bek (died 1728) who fought to free Armenia from the Ottoman Empire.
Henrik Malyan 
 Henrik Malyan (Armenian language:Հենրիկ Մալյան; September 30, 1925 in Telavi, Georgia – March 14, 1988 in Yerevan, Armenia) was an Armenian movie director.
Henrik Malyan 
 His 1977 movie Life Triumphs (Nahapet) is considered to be one of the most important Armenian movies to deal with the Armenian Genocide.
Septuagint 
 The original Septuagint (often referred to LXX) was a translation of the Torah, the five books of Moses from the Hebrew Bible into the Greek language.
Septuagint 
 After 350 years, the Church translated all the books of the Old Testament, and it also has books that Catholics and Orthodox Christians call the Deuterocanon.
Septuagint 
 An ancient tradition says that 70 Jewish scholars were in a different room when they translated the Torah from Hebrew into Greek, yet they all wrote down exactly the same text.
Septuagint 
 Another way to write "70" is "LXX" which is why writers sometimes use that as a short name for Septuagint.
Septuagint 
 The Septuagint Online - Comprehensive site with scholarly discussion and links to texts and translations
Septuagint 
 Bible Resource Pages - contains Septuagint texts (with diacritics) side-by-side with English translations
Septuagint 
 Greek text - Complete Greek text (no diacritics, needs special font) hyperlinked to Strong's concordance.
Septuagint 
 The Septuagint LXX: Greek and English  partial version of Brenton's edition, wiki text and PNG images. (
Septuagint 
 Project to produce an Orthodox Study Bible (OSB) whose Old Testament is based entirely on the Septuagint.
Septuagint 
 The Holy Orthodox Bible, another English translation project of the Septuagint using Greek Orthodox texts of the Septuagint
Septuagint 
 The Septuagint LXX in English (Online text of the entire LXX English translation by Sir Lancelot Brenton)
Septuagint 
 The New Testament and the Septuagint  - Instances where the New Testament quotes the LXX against the Masoretic Hebrew
Septuagint 
 The New Testament and the Hebrew OT  - Instances where the New Testament quote agrees with the Masoretic Hebrew meaning
Katharine McPhee 
 She was the runner-up to Taylor Hicks on the fifth season of the television show American Idol in 2006.
World Heavyweight Championship (WWE) 
 The World Heavyweight Championship was one of the top wrestling championships in the WWE along with the WWE Championship.
World Heavyweight Championship (WWE) 
 Some of the past champions include Edge, Triple H, The Undertaker, Booker T, Batista, and Kurt Angle.
World Heavyweight Championship (WWE) 
 The World Heavyweight Championship was brought to Raw by then-General Manager Eric Bischoff after WWE Champion Brock Lesnar became exclusive to SmackDown.
World Heavyweight Championship (WWE) 
 Bischoff awarded the championship to Triple H, but he had to defend it against his then-best friend, Ric Flair.
World Heavyweight Championship (WWE) 
 Other holders of this prestigious championship include Shawn Michaels, Undertaker, Rey Mysterio and more.
World Heavyweight Championship (WWE) 
 He was already WWE Champion when he won the championship and unified the World Heavyweight Championship with the WWE Championship to make the "WWE World Heavyweight Championship".
Islamic calendar 
 It is a lunar calendar: it uses the phases of the Moon (rather the Earth's orbit of the Sun) to count the passing of time.
Islamic calendar 
 This means that each year of the Hijri calendar is about 11 days shorter than a solar calendar such as the Gregorian.
Islamic calendar 
 Islamic years are often called hijra years, because the first year of the calendar when the hijra occurred, that is when Prophet Muhammad went from Mecca to Medina.
Islamic calendar 
 Two Islamic countries (Iran and Afghanistan) use a different calendar, the Solar Hijri Calendar ("SH").
Islamic calendar 
 But that "a little over" is 44 minutes every month so, to keep the calendar in step with reality, an extra day is needed nearly every third year, so these years are 355 days long.
Islamic calendar 
 For desert communities, cloud-cover is rarely a problem but that is not true for people who live in the rain forest.
Islamic calendar 
 One option is to use the tabular Islamic calendar, which predicts the moment of waxing crescent moon assuming perfect visibility.
Islamic calendar 
 This method is used routinely by some Islamic communities but regarded by others as just an aid to securing a successful observation.
Town privileges 
 Notable ones in the territory of modern-day Germany  include the  Lübeck law, the Magdeburg rights and the Kulm law.
Afternoon 
 It is generally agreed upon that afternoon starts at 12:00 pm, but there is no exact definition of when it ends.
Medieval music 
 We do not know a great deal about music of this time because it was such a long time ago and music was not often written down.
Medieval music 
 In Europe there were people who went around the countryside making a living by singing and playing musical instruments.
Medieval music 
 These travelling musicians were called minstrels in England, and troubadours or trouvères in many other countries, or Minnesinger in Germany.
Medieval music 
 Sometimes we know the words of these songs because they wrote them down, but they did not write the tunes down.
Medieval music 
 Instruments could be divided into quiet ones which were used indoors, and loud ones which were used outside.