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Other waves, such as sound waves, travel at much much lower speeds and can not travel through a vacuum.
Visualizing electromagnetic waves
One way to visualize this is if there were two trains traveling at the same speed, but the size of the train cars was smaller on one train than the other.
If someone picked something that was not moving, like a signpost, and then counted how many train cars passed the sign post in one second for each train, they would know the frequency of cars passing in each train.
The number and frequency of train cars passing the sign post would be different, because the train with smaller train cars would have more train cars passing the sign post in a second than the train with larger train cars.
Knowing how many cars passed the sign post in one second, and knowing the speed of the train, one could figure out mathematically the size of each train car for each train.
For example, if the train was moving at 10 miles per second, and 10 train cars passed in one second, then each train car would be 1 mile long.
If the other train was also moving at 10 miles per second and 20 train cars passed in one second, then one would know that each train car was 1/2 of a mile long for that train.
This example shows that knowing the frequency of an electromagnetic wave gives you the wavelength, since all electromagnetic waves travel at the speed of light so that c = v (lambda) where v is frequency and lambda is wavelength, and c is the speed of light.
Therefore, another way of expressing frequency is to say frequency is c over lambda.
Mechanical vibrations
A hockey stick is a long, wooden pole used to push, pass, or shoot in the sports of ice hockey and field hockey.
The art of developing ice hockey sticks is a complex science and has become big business.
Ice hockey sticks are mostly made of composite materials and they have different "flexes", meaning some sticks are more flexible than others.
In ice hockey, the end or blade of the stick is normally curved, to help the player get better control of the puck and better shots at the goaltender.
The goaltender has a bigger blade, to make it easier to stop shots.
Players sometimes use hockey sticks to hold back the bodies of other players, or to trip or hit them; sometimes players who do this get penalties.
In field hockey, sticks are shorter, but the blade is thicker, than in ice hockey.
It is used to move a ball instead of a puck.
More research has gone into studying how hockey sticks perform.
The main difference between the two sticks is how they are used in the games.
The reason why he is called "Snoop Dogg" is because his mother nicknamed him after a character called "Snoopy", because Snoop Dogg was a fan of the Peanuts cartoon, which has the Snoopy character.
Musical career
2012–2013: Reincarnated
In 2012, Snoop Dogg went to Jamaica.
He studied the Rastafari movement.
He changed his name to Snoop Lion, after the Lion of Judah.
This is a name from the tribe of Judah.
It is sometimes used to describe Haile Selassie, who is worshipped by Rastafarians.
His 2013 album, Reincarnated, is his first reggae music album.
Doggystyle (1993)
Tha Doggfather (1996)
Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told (1998)
No Limit Top Dogg (1999)
Tha Last Meal (2000)
Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss (2002)
R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta): The Masterpiece (2004)
Tha Blue Carpet Treatment (2006)
Ego Trippin' (2008)
Malice n Wonderland (2009)
Doggumentary (2011)
Reincarnated (2013)
Bush (2015)
Coolaid (2016)
Neva Left (2017)
Bible of Love (2018)
I Wanna Thank Me (2019)
From tha Streets 2 tha Suites (2021)
The Algorithm (2021)
Collaboration albums
Snoop Dogg presents Tha Eastsidaz with Tha Eastsidaz (2000)
Duces 'n Trayz: The Old Fashioned Way with Tha Eastsidaz (2001)
The Hard Way with 213 (2004)
Mac & Devin Go to High School with Wiz Khalifa (2011)
7 Days of Funk with 7 Days of Funk (2013)
Royal Fam with Tha Broadus Boyz (2013)
Cuzznz with Daz Dillinger (2016)
Snoopdog TV on YouTube
African American movie producers
African-American television actors
Rap musicians from California
People from Long Beach, California
Twitch (service) streamers
The Malayan tiger (Panthera tigris jacksoni) is a subspecies of the tiger that was discovered in 2004.
People used to think they were Indo-Chinese tigers, But now they have their own subspecies.
They have the same length and weight as the Indo-Chinese tiger.
They live in southern Malaysia and they are an endangered species.
Ngandong tiger
Trinil tiger
Wanhsien tiger
The Caspian tiger (Panthera tigris virgata) is an extinct sub species of the tiger.
It was the most western sub species of the tiger, very close to Europe.
They became extinct in the 1970s.
They were found in Turkey, Armenia, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Iran, Mongolia, and  Georgia.
Recent research by scientists looking at the tiger's DNA, have found that it is almost identical to the Siberian tiger.
They now believe that the two species of tiger may not have become separate until the 1900s.
The Caspian tiger was the second largest of the tiger species.
It had a bigger, muscular body, with longer strong legs.
It had large paws and more claws.
It had small, short ears.
The color was different from other tiger subspecies, with yellow to gold fur with light to dark brown stripes.
The chest and stomach area are white with yellow stripes.
In winter it grew longer fur.
It was the furriest of all the tiger subspecies.
A string instrument is a musical instrument that makes sound by vibrating the strings on it.
The strings are plucked to produce sounds.
Each string has a different frequency.
The desired frequency can be obtained by adjusting the tension on the string.
A string instrument plays soft notes.
The strings on the instrument usually come in many shapes and forms.
There are many types of stringed instruments.
The most common of these appear in the violin family.
The violin is a small, stringed instrument played with a bow, usually made of horse's hair.
When the bow is drawn across the strings it creates a vibration.
You can select what vibration the bow makes by choosing the note on the fingerboard.
It is tuned to G, D, A and E. The viola is a very similar instrument aside from some small differences - it is slightly larger, and is tuned to C, G, D, and A. The cello is a stringed instrument that is played in the bass clef.
It is much bigger than the violin, and is also played much differently.
The double-bass is bigger still and is the lowest of them all.
There are also plucked strings, the most famous of which would probably be the guitar.
The guitar uses a fret board and a pick to pluck the strings while holding down on the fret board.
It was made famous by rock groups like Led Zeppelin and artists like Eric Clapton.
You play by strumming with one hand while choosing notes on the fret-board (string board) with the other.
Banjos are also very similar.
String bass
Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 biographical musical movie.
It starred James Cagney as George M. Cohan.
1942 movies
American biographical movies
Movies directed by Michael Curtiz
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 American comedy-drama movie, starring Spencer Tracy (in his final film role), Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Houghton.
It centers around what happens between a young white woman and her parents, after she falls in love with a black man in San Francisco.
1967 comedy movies
1967 drama movies
1960s comedy-drama movies
Columbia Pictures movies
Movies about interracial romance
Movies set in San Francisco
American romantic comedy movies
American romantic drama movies
Movies directed by Stanley Kramer
Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 American comedy movie starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn and directed by Howard Hawks.
It is set in Connecticut.
1938 movies
1930s comedy movies
1930s romance movies
Movies set in Connecticut
Movies directed by Howard Hawks
The Searchers is a 1956 epic western movie set in Texas in the 1860s.
it is directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, about a man looking for his niece who was taken by Native Americans.
It is also one of the movies that influenced Star Wars.
1956 movies
American western movies
Movies set in Texas
Movies set in the 19th century
1950s western movies
Movies directed by John Ford
Goodfellas is a 1990 American biographical crime movie directed by Martin Scorsese.
It is about life in the Mafia.
It gained six nominations for Oscars.
It won one (for Joe Pesci's role).
Many people thought the movie was great.
It is set in New York City.
The movie is based on the life of mafioso Henry Hill (1943-2012) from 1955 - 1980.
Goodfellas uses information from New York crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi's book Wiseguy.
Scorsese and Pileggi worked together to write the movie.
Goodfellas was first shown at the 1990 Venice Film Festival.
Scorsese received the Silver Lion award for Best Director.
Director David Chase said the movie made him want to make the HBO television series The Sopranos.
1990 crime movies
1990 drama movies
1990s biographical movies
1990s crime drama movies
American crime drama movies
American gangster movies
BAFTA Award winning movies
Movies directed by Martin Scorsese
Movies set in the 1970s
Movies set in the 1980s
If people fight in irregular (not normal forces) armies not wearing a uniform, and not part of the official military (fighting group of a nation), they are called partisans if they fight against another nation's army, or terrorists, if they fight civilians.
Soldiers can be volunteers or conscripts.
A conscript is a person who has been forced to become a soldier and fight.
In countries such as Switzerland, Israel, and Finland, men are conscripted for a few months once they become legal adults.
There are many different kinds of soldiers, and the term to describe them changes depending on their job and part of the military they serve in.
For example, soldiers that serve in the navy can be called sailors or seamen.
Military ranks
The Yellowstone River is a river in the northwestern part of the United States.
It is a tributary of the Missouri River and flows through the states of Wyoming, Montana, and North Dakota.
It also flows through Yellowstone National Park and feeds Yellowstone Lake.
Rivers of Wyoming
A toy is something to play with.
Toys are for children, adults, and animals.
Before 1970, most toys were made of metal and wood.
Now, they are mostly made of plastic.
Sometimes they are made of electronic material.
Some people also consider video games toys.
Toys include balls, plastic cars, and dolls.
They also can be sex related products.
Toys originated many years ago.
Dolls of infants, animals, and soldiers and toy tools are found in archaeological places.
The origin of the word "toy" is not known.
However, it is thought that it was first used in the 14th century.
The earliest toys were made from rocks, sticks or clay.
In Ancient Egypt, children played with dolls made of clay and sticks.
In Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, children played with dolls made of wax or terracotta, sticks, bows and arrows, and yo-yos.
Later these developmental games were used in creation of indoor playsets for homes.
When Greek children, especially girls became adults, it was required to sacrifice the toys to the gods.
On the eve of their wedding, young girls around fourteen would offer their dolls in a temple as a rite of passage into adulthood.
A unicorn is a legendary and mythical creature.
It looks like a pony with one long, single and white  horn on its head.
The word unicorn means literally "one-horn".
It comes from the Latin word ūnus, which means one, and cornu which means horn, which term is in itself borrowed from the earlier Greek word monokerōs (also 'one horned').
Unicorns are found in many stories and myths from different parts of the world, especially China and India.
Its blood and horn usually have mystical powers.
In Western culture, its horn is said to have power (often called alicorn in medieval literature) to heal wounds and sickness, and to neutralize poison.
In mythology and heraldry unicorn symbolizes innocence, purity and feminine power.
It is often seen as the counterpart of lion, which symbolizes the masculine virtues.
A Narwhal is an animal that is about 8 feet long.
They live in the water around Canada and Greenland.
Narwhal’s horns were said to be the horns of unicorns by some.
People would sell the horn of a narwhal to others and say it was a horn of a unicorn.
Christian legends say the Unicorn is as small as a normal sized goat.
They are so fearful that no hunter can catch them.
Only a maiden that goes into the forest alone can catch a unicorn.
The unicorn will come and fall asleep in the maiden’s lap.
Around the time of the Middle Ages, some stories of unicorns became more popular.
People bought what were said to be the horns of a unicorn at very high prices.
They were mostly a tusk of a walrus or a horn from a narwhal.
Real animals
Unicorns in history
In On the Nature of Animals (Περὶ Ζῴων Ἰδιότητος, De natura animalium), Aelian, quoting Ctesias, adds that India has also a one-horned horse (iii.
41; iv.
52), and says (xvi.
20) that the monoceros () was sometimes called cartazonos (), which may be a kind of the Arabic karkadann, meaning "rhinoceros".
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Radium is a chemical element with the atomic number 88 and symbol Ra on the periodic table.
It was discovered by Marie Curie and Pierre Curie in the form of radium chloride in 1898.
It is an almost pure-white alkaline earth metal, but when it is exposed to nitrogen, it turns black quickly.
All isotopes of radium are radioactive, and it glows faint blue because of this.
It's used in several things, like luminous watches, which are now banned because they can cause radiation poisoning.
This was caused because of a lawsuit that involved 5 women ( radium Girls ) that suffered from many disabilities because of the prolonged exposure they had to the element radium.
Dhaka is the capital city of Bangladesh.
It is also the largest city of Bangladesh and the most polluted and unhygienic city of the world.
In 2011, 8,906,039 people lived there.
In 2020 estimated at 21,005,860 live in the Greater Dhaka area.
Dhaka has grown by 3,408,683 since 2015, which represents a 3.60% annual change.
The city name was previously spelled Dacca.
It is located just north of the Buriganga River, a channel of the Dhaleswari River, in the south-central part of the country.
Dhaka is Bangladesh’s most populous city and is one of the largest metropolises in South Asia.
Pop. (
2001) city, 5,333,571; metro.
area, 9,672,763; (2011) city, 7,033,075; metro.
area, 14,543,124.
It was part of the Mughal Empire of Hindustan and served as the capital of the empire twice.
Once from 1608 to 1639 and once from 1660–1704.
After that, it became a part of the British Raj.
Then it became a part of Pakistan as part of the Partition of India on 15 August 1947.
Bangladesh was then called East Pakistan, and Dacca (Dhaka) became provincial capital of East Pakistan.
In 1971, the new nation of Bangladesh was created.
Dhaka is home to Bangladesh Bank which is the country's central bank.
Many multinational companies have offices in the city.
The Dhaka Stock Exchange is one of the largest stock exchanges in South Asia.
The Bangabhaban in Dhaka is the official residence and workplace of the President of Bangladesh.
It is also home to the National Parliament House.
There are 52 universities in Dhaka.
Dhaka College was started in 1841, making it the oldest institution for higher education in the city.
Dhaka’s name is said to refer to the dhak tree, once common in the area, or to Dhakeshwari (“The Hidden Goddess”), whose shrine is located in the western part of the city.
Although the city’s history can be traced to the 1st millennium CE, the city did not rise to prominence until the 17th century, when it served as the capital of the Muslim Mughal dynasty of Bengal province (1608–39 and 1660–1704).
It was the center of a flourishing sea trade, attracting English, French, Armenian, Portuguese, and Dutch traders.
Historic buildings of the Muslim period include Lal Bagh fort (1678) and its tomb of Bibi Pari (died 1684), wife of a governor of Bengal; the Bara Katra (great caravansary, a building historically used for sheltering caravans and other travelers; 1664); the Chhota Katra (small caravansary; 1663); and Husayni Dalan (a religious monument of the Shīʿite branch of Islam; 1642).
Other 17th-century buildings include the Hindu Dhakeshwari temple and Tejgaon church, built by the Portuguese.
With the removal of the provincial capital to Murshidabad (1704) and the weakening of the muslin industry, Dhaka entered a period of decline.
It passed under British control in 1765 and was constituted a municipality in 1864, but it continued to lose prominence until it was designated the capital of Eastern Bengal and Assam province (1905–12).
During the early 20th century Dhaka served as a commercial center and seat of learning.
Following the end of British rule, when the region became a part of Pakistan, it was named the capital of East Bengal province (1947) and of East Pakistan (1956).
Dhaka suffered heavy damage during the war of independence in 1971 but emerged as the capital of Bangladesh.
It has one of the best schools for students to study in and it is a very educational city.
Dhaka has the largest number of schools, colleges and universities of any Bangladeshi city.
The education system is divided into 5 levels: Primary (from grades 1 to 6), Junior (from grades 6 to 8), Secondary (from grades 9 to 10), Higher Secondary (from grades 11 to 12) and tertiary.[98] The five years of Primary education concludes with a Primary School Completion (PSC) Examination, the three years of Junior education concludes with Junior School Certificate (JSC) Examination, and next two years of Secondary education concludes with a Secondary School Certificate (SSC) Examination.
Students who pass this examination proceed to two years of Higher Secondary or intermediate training, which culminate in a Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSC) Examination.[98] Education is mainly offered in Bengali, but English is also widely taught and used.
Many Muslim families send their children to attend part-time courses or even to pursue full-time religious education alongside other subjects, which is imparted in Bengali and Arabic in schools, colleges and madrasas.
Dhaka College is the oldest institution for higher education in the city and among the earliest established in British India, founded in 1841.
Since independence, Dhaka has seen the establishment of numerous public and private colleges and universities that offer undergraduate and graduate degrees as well as a variety of doctoral programmes.
The Contemporary City
Since its establishment as the capital city, the population, area, and social and economic diversity of Dhaka have grown tremendously.
Together with its river port of Narayanganj, 10 miles (16 km) to the south, Dhaka now is one of the most densely industrialized regions in the country.
Traditional products include jamdani (fine-quality muslin), embroidery, silk, and jewelry.
Among the city’s major industries are jute processing and the manufacture of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, textiles, leather goods, ceramics, and electronics products.
A strong export-oriented garment industry emerged in the late 20th century.
The area around Dhaka consists of a level plain bounded by the Meghna, Padma (Ganges [Ganga]), and Jamuna (Brahmaputra) rivers.
The plain is crossed by a network of streams and rivers, the chief being the Dhaleswari, Buriganga, and Sitalakhya.
Important crops are rice, jute, sugarcane, and oilseeds; there is also some cattle farming.
The city contains several universities, among which the University of Dhaka (1921), the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (1962), and Jahangirnagar University (1970) are prominent.
Dhaka is also home to numerous government colleges, a nuclear-science training and research centre, the national library, a museum, and the national art gallery.
In addition, the area includes the site of the ancient city of Vikramapura, former capital of the Pala rulers of Bengal (8th–12th century).
Among Dhaka’s more recent buildings of note are the Star Mosque (Tara Masjid), built in the Mughal architectural style in the early 19th century with later renovations; Curzon Hall at the University of Dhaka, erected at the beginning of the 20th century, combining Mughal and European influences; and the National Assembly Building (Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban), designed by architect Louis I. Kahn and completed in 1982.
Place to visit
Ahsan Manzil Museum
Lalbagh Fort
National Parliament House
Sonargaon
Dhaka-Agartala Bus
After years of negotiations, the Dhaka-Agartala bus was agreed upon on July 11, 2001.
The bus connects Bangladesh with its eastern neighbor, the Indian state of Tripura.
Tripura has a substantial Bengali population and indigenous peoples who have close commercial and cultural links with the people of eastern Bangladesh.
Dhaka in Banglapedia
Darwin is the territorial capital of the Northern Territory in Australia.
The city has about 147,000 people living there.
The city is named after Charles Darwin.
A member of the crew of the ship that started a port there in 1839 named it Port Darwin in honor of Darwin, who had sailed on that same ship earlier.
Most of Darwin has been built since 1974, when Cyclone Tracy ripped through and destroyed the city.
Since then, the city has recovered.
It is a very important port, because it is on the coast closest to Indonesia and the rest of Asia.
Darwin also has a large military base.
Darwin also has many Indigenous Australians living in the city, about 9.7% of the people.
This is more than any other state capital in Australia.
Capital cities in Australia
Cities in the Northern Territory
The Northern Territory is a territory of Australia.
The capital city is Darwin.
Other large towns in the Territory include Alice Springs, Katherine and Tenant Creek.
The Northern Territory has large areas of desert.
It has many important places such as Uluru, or Ayers Rock.
The rock is sacred to the native people.
Kakadu National Park is a World Heritage area.
It has been lived in for more than 40,000 years.
There are cave paintings, rock carvings and archaeological sites.
These show the skills and way of life of the people who have lived there.
The park has different ecosystems, including tidal flats, floodplains, lowlands and rocky gorges.
It provides a place to live for a wide range of rare types of plants and animals.
Floral Emblem
The floral emblem of the Northern Territory is Sturt's Desert Rose, Gossypium sturtianum.
The flower is also featured on the Territory's flag.
It was named after explorer Charles Sturt who found the plant in creeks near the site of Broken Hill, New South Wales in 1844.
The Whiskey Rebellion was a rebellion against the federal government of the United States.
Some farmers in western Pennsylvania rebelled against the United States government in 1794 because they believed that a new tax on whiskey was not fair.
Selling whiskey was how people traded in western Pennsylvania, but farmers elsewhere did not need to sell whiskey.
The United States had borrowed a large amount of money for the American Revolutionary War, and Alexander Hamilton offered the idea to try to pay the war debt.
The government under George Washington, with advice from Alexander Hamilton, quickly stopped the rebellion.
Washington and Hamilton wanted to ensure that no one would question the power of the federal government and so Washington himself led almost 13,000 troops to stop the rebellion of a few hundred farmers.
The rebels went home before the army arrived.
The new federal government became more solid and the president more powerful.
Numerous examples of resistance are recorded in court documents and newspaper accounts.
That is the only time in American history that a president has led the army by himself.
1790s in Pennsylvania
Saginaw is a city in mid-Michigan, United States.
It had about 70,000 people in the city as of the 2000 census.
It is very cold there in the winter.
It is near Bay City, Michigan.
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (; born July 3, 1962), widely known as Tom Cruise, is an American movie actor and producer.
He has starred in many movies, including War of the Worlds and Jerry Maguire.
He is one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood.
His first movie was Endless Love.
His first leading role was in the movie Risky Business.
He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe Awards.
These were for the same movies: Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Jerry Maguire (1996), Magnolia (1999).
Tom Cruise was born in Syracuse, New York.
He is the son of Mary Lee, a special education teacher, and Thomas Cruise Mapother III (died 1984), an electrical engineer.
Cruise has three sisters, Lee Anne, Marian, and Cass.
Cruise's surname originates from his great-grandfather, born Thomas Cruise O'Mara, who was renamed "Thomas Cruise Mapother" (Mapother is a Welsh surname).
Cruise is of Irish, German and English ancestry.
One of his paternal great-great-great-grandfathers, Patrick Russell Cruise, was born in North County Dublin, in 1799; he married Teresa Johnson in Warrenstown House, County Meath, in 1825.
They left Ireland for America that same year and settled in New York.
Cruise is a Scientologist.
He is one of the most famous members of the organization.
Cruise has an adopted daughter and adopted son with his second wife Nicole Kidman.
He has a daughter Suri (born April 2006), by Katie Holmes.
He and Holmes married in November 2006 and separated in 2012.
People from Syracuse, New York
Orgy is an American alternative metal band.
They formed in 1997 in Los Angeles, California.
The band's first hit was Blue Monday, which was a remake of a song by 1980s band New Order.
The members of the band are:
Jay Gordon - singer
Bobby Hewitt - drummer
Ryan Shuck - guitarist
Amir Derakh - guitar, synthesizer player
Paige Haley - bass player
A magazine is a type of book people read.
Magazines are not like regular books.
This is because a new version of the magazine is printed many times each year.
Magazines are a type of periodical.
They are called periodicals because versions are published at a fixed frequency.
Magazines are printed on paper.
People usually need to subscribe to them.
An example of a magazine is Time.
There are magazines about many things.
Magazines are similar to newspapers, but usually the time between new versions is longer.
Each one costs more money, and many are in color on every page.
Also, sometimes magazines come with little gifts to reward the readers who buy it.
A zombie is a mythical dead person who has returned to life as a walking corpse.
Mythical things that have been "re-animated" are called undead, or the living dead.
The zombie myth came from the Caribbean.
Voodoo zombies
In Haiti people believe that Voodoo sorcerers or 'bokor' can bring dead people back to life, making a zombie.
The zombie is under the control of the sorcerer because zombies have no free will.
It's believed a zombie is a trapped human soul.
If a sorcerer can catch the trapped soul, the sorcerer becomes more powerful.
Studies on Haitian zombies
Wade Davis wrote about zombies in two books, The Serpent and the Rainbow (1985) and Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie (1988).
Davis went to Haiti in 1982 and wrote about how a living person can be turned into a zombie by two special powders being rubbed into a wound.
The first powder brings a 'deathlike' state because of a certain poison in it, called tetrodotoxin (the same deadly poison found in the Japanese blowfish).
At just the right amount, it can make a person almost die, but not quite.
The second powder puts the person in a zombie-like state where they seem to have no free will of their own.
Many people outside Haiti do not believe what Davis wrote about, but in Haiti, lots of people believe in the "zombie drugs".
Zombies in history
Ancient civilizations
"Father give me the Bull of Heaven,
So he can kill Gilgamesh in his delling.
If you do not give me the Bull of Heaven,
I will knock down the Gates of the Netherworld,
I will smash the doorposts, and leave the doors flat down,
and will let the dead go up to eat the living!
And the dead will outnumber the living!"
In the Middle Ages, many people believed that the souls of the dead could come back as ghosts and haunt the living, often because of a crime that the living person had committed.
Sometimes, the ghost could actually take on a physical shape and touch or attack things or people they can be very dangerous
Zombies in fiction
Zombies can walk, think (in some cases), and attack living persons.
Most zombies eat the brains of living humans.
In zombies, the heart, lungs, and a small part of their brain still work.
They may react to their environment, but they do not have consciousness.
Zombies can use their skeleton and muscles to move.
The skin is rotten.
Its hair and nails are falling off.
Zombies are usually covered in blood.
They often have open wounds and are dressed in ripped clothes.
Zombies appear a lot in horror and fantasy films.
Normally, the zombie is a mindless, clumsy corpse which eats human flesh.
Zombies can not be called cannibals because they do not eat each other, only living humans.
The first zombie stories appeared in the 1600s.
Since that time, zombies have appeared in lots of books and films.
They have become more popular in modern media, such as Capcom's Resident Evil series and AMC's The Walking Dead.
In zombie movies, zombies are almost always:
Mobile (able to move) but technically dead, without a heartbeat or other vital signs
In a decaying (rotting) state, with discolored skin and eyes
Non-communicative (groaning and howling instead of speaking)
Unemotional, with no mercy toward victims
Hungry for human flesh (zombies usually ignore animals)
Clumsy and violent
Vulnerable to destruction of the brain (which kills them).
Unaffected by injuries, even normally fatal ones, as long as the brain isn't damaged badly.
Contagious: a person that is bitten by a zombie will become a zombie
Extremely persistent
Ghoul stories
There is also the alternative metal band Orgy (band).
Orgy could also mean any activity done without limits.
Originally, the word comes from Latin.
There it referred to a feast (or a banquet) of a rich citizen.
When the Romans ate they were almost lying down, and the food was brought to them by slaves.
These slaves would also provide the entertainment which usually consisted of music and dancing slaves.
A Labradoodle is a mixed-breed dog, created by breeding  a Labrador Retriever with a Poodle.
Labradoodles are now bred worldwide.
Labradoodles are not a considered an official dog breed by most dog expert organizations, such as the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI).
The American Kennel Club (AKC )has now created the 'Canine Partners" category to include the Labradoodle and other hybrid breeds for agility and other competitions.
The Labradoodle has a very short but interesting history.
The labradoodle originated during the mid-to-late 1980s.
A vision-impaired woman needed a good service dog that would not give her husband an allergic reaction.
Ms. Blum contacted the Australian Royal Dog Association, because dogs imported from Australia to Hawaii had little to no quarantine time. (
Quarantine time is when they isolate an animal from other living things to make sure they don't have any disease)
Coat and saliva samples from more than thirty poodles were sent from Australia to Blum's doctor.
Unfortunately, Mr. Blum was allergic to all of the samples.
Wally Conron, who worked for Australia’s Royal Guide Association's breeding program, suggested crossing a Labrador retriever and a Standard Poodle and see if one didn't trigger Mr. Blum's symptoms.
Conron tried the test cross with a Standard Poodle named "Harley" and a Labrador retriever named "Brandy.”
Harley and Brandy had a litter of three puppies.
Coat and saliva samples from the puppy's coats were sent to Hawaii.
This time, Mr. Blum wasn't allergic to one of them.
The puppy also had a good temperament and was very friendly.
Conron named the puppy "Sultan".
Conron trained Sultan for eighteen months until he was ready to be a good service dog.
Sultan was then shipped to his new home.
Sultan is the first labradoodle on record.
Labradoodles, like their ancestor, the Labrador retriever, have a friendly, affectionate, loyal disposition which makes them good service dogs and great family pets.
Labradoodles are also known for their intelligence.
Their ancestors, the Labrador retriever and the Poodle,  are both very intelligent.
The Labrador retriever is very eager to please and loyal.
Labradoodles are also very good around children, and are also very outgoing and self-confident.
However, Labradoodles can sometimes get too excited around other dogs.
When a Labradoodle runs over to a less sociable dog, the dog might become scared and irritable.
Labradoodles should be trained early to have a respect for other animals.
Overall, though, Labradoodles have a fantastic temperament.
Appearance/Coat
There are mainly three different coat types in a labradoode: fleece, wool, and hair.
The fleece coat is usually wavy and long and has a silky feel to it.
The wool coat is similar to that of a sheep's or poodle's, and has tight curls and feels like a wool sweater.
The hair coat is straight or slightly and has a wispy look to it.
This type of coat is not as allergy friendly, but most people with allergies will be able to tolerate it.
Labradoodles come in almost any coat.
The labradoodle can also have what is called "parti" which is when it is a combination of two different colors like an apricot body and then white patches mainly on the feet and chest.
Generally, Labradoodles are usually quite healthy.
They have a life expectancy of 12 to 15 years.
Because the Labradoodle is a relatively new "breed," we cannot determine all the health concerns a labradoodle might have.
Heath concerns that we do know of originate from their ancestors.
Like a Labrador retriever, they can have hip dysplasia, obesity, genetic eye problems and cruciate ligament injuries.
Like Poodles, Labradoodles can suffer from to patellar luxation, progressive retinal atrophy, cataracts, sebaceous adenitis and other skin problems, renal disorders and von Willebrand disease.
Labradoodles have been diagnosed with Addison's disease.
Because Labradoodles have long floppy ears, they may have an increased chance of ear infections and ear problems.
Labradoodle Association of Australia website
St.Clair Labradoodle Kennels
Labradoodle Puppies for sale USA
Australian Labradoodles
Heilongjiang is the northeastern-most province in China.
It is considered to part of the region known as Manchuria.
It is bordered by Russia on the north and east.
To the south is Jilin province, and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region lies to the west.
The capital and largest city is Harbin.
There had been a considerable foreign population in the region, particularly in Harbin, first by the Russians in the late 19th century, and then by the Japanese in the 20th century.
The land is largely of plains and rolling hills, with relatively few low mountainous areas.
The climate is fairly dry with quite cold winters.
There are some famous winter "ice festivals" with elaborate snow and ice sculptures.
Harbin Municipality
Daqing Municipality
Hegang Municipality
Heihe Municipality
Jiamusi Municipality
Jixi Municipality
Mudanjiang Municipality
Qiqihar Municipality
Qitaihe Municipality
Shuangyashan Municipality
Suihua Municipality
Yichun Municipality
Daxing'anling Prefecture
Jilin is one of 3 provinces in the far northeastern part of China, also known as Manchuria.
It is bordered on the north by Heilongjiang province, to the west by the "Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region", and to the southwest by Liaoning province.
To the southeast lies North Korea.
The terrain and climate are much like that of neighboring Heilongjiang province.
Also like its neighboring provinces, one of the main agricultural products is corn, as the climate is too cold (and dry) for satisfactory rice cultivation.
Liaoning is a northeastern province of the People's Republic of China.
The capital city of Liaoning province is Shenyang.
From 1931 to 1945 Japan ruled Liaoning as part of Manchukuo.
It is bordered on the northeast by Jilin province, and has a coastline along the Yellow Sea to the southeast.
Hebei province and Beijing lie to the southwest.
Wash basin, a bowl-shaped container used for washing hands or food
Drainage basin, the area drained by a river
Oceanic basin, a low place in the Earth that holds an ocean
Sedimentary basin , like the Amazon Basin
An open, round container shaped like a bowl with sloping sides, used for holding food or liquid
A blade is the flat, sharp part of a tool or weapon used to cut or stab, such as a knife or sword.
Most blades have handles.
Blades can be used to stab, cut, or separate things.
It can also be the top part of grass or the leaf of a plant.
Blades come in all different sizes and shapes, sharpness and materials.
Anastacia Lyn Newkirk, best known as Anastacia , (born September 17, 1968) is an American singer, songwriter and stylist.
Anastacia has had several health problems in her life.
She was diagnosed with Crohn's disease when she was 13.
In early 2003 she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had surgery to remove it.
She was again diagnosed with breast cancer in early 2013.
On October 1, 2013 she told the media that she has had both of her breasts removed.
2000: Not That Kind
2001: Freak of Nature
2004: Anastacia
2005: Pieces of a Dream
2008: Heavy Rotation
2012: It's a Man's World
2014: Resurrection
2015: Ultimate Collection
2017: Evolution
2000: I'm Outta Love
2001: Cowboys & Kisses
2005: Heavy On My Heart
2012: Dream On
2014: Staring at the Sun
2015: Army of Me
2017: Caught In The Middle
2001: I Thought I Told You That (duet with Faith Evans)
2006: I Belong to You (duet with Eros Ramazzotti)
2009: Stalemate (duet with Ben's Brother)
2010: Burning Star (duet with Natalia)
2014: "Lifeline / Luce per sempre" (Anastacia and Kekko Fornarelli)
A key is an object used to open and close locks.
Many things have locks, for example, doors.
Keys are also used to turn on cars, machines and other things.
The earliest known lock and key device was discovered in the ruins of Nineveh, the capital of ancient Assyria.
Locks such as this were later developed into the Egyptian wooden pin lock, which consisted of a bolt, door fixture or attachment, and key.
When the key was inserted, pins within the fixture were lifted out of drilled holes within the bolt, allowing it to move.
The warded lock was also present from antiquity and remains the most recognizable lock and key design in the Western world.
The first all-metal locks appeared between the years 870 and 900, and are attributed to the English craftsmen.
It is also said that the key was invented by Theodorus of Samos in the 6th century BC.
Affluent Romans often kept their valuables in secure locked boxes within their households, and wore the keys as rings on their fingers.
The practice had two benefits: It kept the key handy at all times, while signaling that the wearer was wealthy and important enough to have money and jewelry worth securing.
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Picking Locks Popular Mechanics
The rat is a medium-sized rodent.
Rats are omnivores, they eat lots of different types of food.
Most rats are in the genus Rattus.
There are about 56 different species of rats.
The best known rats are the black rat (Rattus rattus), and the brown rat (Rattus norvegicus).
These two are known as Old World rats.
The group has its origins in Asia.
Usually rats are bigger than mice.
Rats are large muroid rodents, mice are small ones.
The muroid family is very large and complex.
That means the terms rat and mouse are not specific in a taxonomic way.
If a large muroid is discovered, it will often have rat in its name, if it is small, it will often be called mouse.
Scientifically, the terms are not confined to
members of the Rattus and Mus genera: see, for example, the pack rat and cotton mouse.
Some people keep rats as a pet.
They are called fancy rats.
Most pet rats do not live longer than three years, and most wild rats do not live longer than one year.
Rats also used for their meat.
Cambodia, Laos, Africa, China and Vietnam eat rat meat.
"Rats" that are not rats
Other mammals are called rat by many people, but those are not true rats, many are unrelated to the true Old World rat.
Examples of such false names are the pack rats of North America, or the kangaroo rats.
Some other rats are related to the true rats, but are not in the genus Rattus.
Such an example is the lesser bandicoot rat.
Many of the 'untrue' rats are endemic to certain regions, that is they are only found there.
Very often, they live on islands.
In many cases, these species are also endangered of disappearing.
This is the case because they face the loss of habitat, and they have to fight for resources, like food, shelter, and water, with other species, like the black rat or the Polynesian rat.
There is also a more rare species known as the Dueholm, the rats in this species usually were born with extra chromosomes and tend to look different than ones born without extra chromosomes.
People keep some types of rats as pets called "fancy rats".
Fancy rats are domesticated brown rats.
People have kept rats as pets since the 19th century.
Rats are social and smart animals that can be trained.
They also like to play with toys.
Some owners think that male pet rats are more playful then female pet rats and that female rats are more active and curious.
Pet rats do not act the same as wild rats.
They do not have more diseases than other common pets.
Pet rats live 1 to 3 years.
Female rats are smaller than male rats.
Pet rats have been known to "laugh" when tickled.
They can be all one color or have spots or other coloring.
Some rats have no hair.
These are called hairless rats.
Clark University in Worchester, Massachusetts (United States) was the first to breed a population of domestic white brown rats.
They did this to study the effects of diets, amongst other things.
Since then, rats have been used in many experiments.
They have helped scientists get a better understanding of
Laboratory rats have been used in psychological studies of learning and other mental processes (Barnett, 2002).
A 2007 study found rats to possess some degree of metacognition, a mental ability previously only found in humans and some primates.
In general, it has been difficult to measure intelligence in rats.
Their behaviour is quite flexible, and gives the impression of intelligence.
Flexible behaviour is good for problem-solving and learning.
Domestic rats are very different from wild rats.
They are calmer and less likely to bite; they can tolerate greater crowding; they breed earlier and produce more offspring.
Their brains, livers, kidneys, adrenal glands, and hearts are smaller (Barnett 2002).
Brown rats are often used as model organisms.
Genetic research is usually done with mice.
Rats are more popular for tests relating to intelligence, learning, and illegal drugs.
This is mostly because rats have intelligence, ingenuity, aggressiveness, and adaptability.
Their psychology seems to be very similar to human psychology.
Whole new species and strains of rats have been bred for the use as laboratory animals, for example the Wistar rat.
Much of the genome of Rattus norvegicus has been sequenced.
Rats are opportunists.
If they have the choice between a food that will need a fight to get, and another food that will not, they take the food that does not need a fight.
For this reason, rats have lived close to humans for a long time.
Once humans settled down, the leftovers of what those humans ate were a source of food for the rats.
So the rats followed.
Rats are present in almost all settlements.
In cities, they often live in the sewers.
Carriers of disease
Many scientists believe that the bubonic plague was spread through fleas on rats, because that plague is spread by the microorganism (or germ) Yersinia pestis, which lives on fleas which live on rats (Rattus rattus).
Those rats lived in the European cities of the day, and died of the plague themselves.
Some scientists believe that the plague spread faster than the rats.
If this is true, the rats cannot be the main carrier.
More research is needed to find out if this is true.
People believe this disease was the 'Black Death'.
It killed nearly a third of the population of Europe, in many epidemics in the Middle Ages.
Rats can carry diseases.
Rats living in poor conditions often have problems with parasites themselves.
Not many diseases carried by rats can spread to humans.
One of those is called Leptospirosis, another one is the plague.
In later media
The rat appears in a cameo role in various Disney classic animated films such as The Black Cauldron, Aladdin, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Lindsay Wildlife Museum's rat care page
Anne Hanson's rat page.
Rat behaviour and biology
National Bio Resource Project for the rat in Japan
Rat genome database
Omnivores
A spoon is a tool for eating.
It is usually used for eating foods that are like liquids (like soup and yogurt), and it can also be used for stirring.
Humans use spoons every day.
Some solids (like cereal and ice cream) are also usually eaten with spoons.
A ladle is a bigger type of serving spoon used for soup, stew, or other foods.
There are many different types of spoons.
There are dessert spoons, soup spoons, baby spoons, teaspoons, tablespoons and others.
There are also spoons that are collector items and are worth a lot of money.
Some musicians even use two spoons as a musical instrument like a castanet.
Spoons have been used as tools for eating since Paleolithic times.
Prehistoric peoples probably used shells, or small pieces of wood as spoons.
Both the Greek and Latin words for spoon come from the word cochlea, which is a spiral-shaped  snail shell.
The Anglo-Saxon word spoon, means a chip or splinter of wood.
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Cutlery refers to tools used for preparing, serving and eating food.
The most common types of cutlery are knives, spoons and forks.
Other words for cutlery are silverware, tableware, utensils and flatware.
The best quality cutlery may be made of silver, but more often silver plating.
Stainless steel is used for most good quality household cutlery.
Pewter was often used in the past for cheap cutlery.
Nickel silver, sometimes called German silver, is another alloy, with copper, nickel, and zinc in it.
Plastic cutlery is used for eating fast food, because it is very cheap, and may be thrown away afterwards.
Serving practice and use of cutlery varies somewhat between cultures.
Formal dinners have cutlery set out in a traditional manner.
There will be two sets of knives and forks, an outer smaller set for the first course and a larger inner set for the main course.
Cutlery for later courses will usually be delivered with those courses.
In an informal restaurant, cutlery may come wrapped in a cloth napkin (serviette).
Chinese and Japanese food is eaten with chopsticks, and food pre-cut to a size suitable for that method.
Some other oriental cuisines are eaten by fork and spoon, with no knife.
A vase is a container, often used for flowers.
They can be made from a number of materials, including glass and ceramics.
Many vases are decorated or painted but some are left plain.
It sometimes is used for decorations in American and Chinese homes.
It can be a big part of culture in many countries.
The Republic of Yemen or Yemen is a nation in the Middle East.
The colonial government is called the Houthis.
It is the old North Yemen and South Yemen, in the south of the Arabian Peninsula.
It borders Saudi Arabia and Oman on the north and the east.
To the south is the Guardafui Channel and Gulf of Aden, and to the west is the Red Sea.
Yemen owns the island of Socotra (217 miles) to the south off the coast of East Africa.
A person or thing from Yemen is called Yemeni.
Yemen's capital city is Sana'a.
Yemen is the origin land of all Arabs in the Middle East.
In ancient times, Yemen was an important center of trade and power.
Many powerful kingdoms were in Yemen, including the Sabaeans.