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Post by Catman on Jan 28, 2019 2:57:43 GMT
Aiyalam Parameswaran Balachandran (born 25 January 1938) is an Indian theoretical physicist well known for his extensive contributions to the role of classical topology in quantum physics. He has been the Joel Dorman Steele Professor of Physics in Syracuse University since 2000. He has also been a fellow of the American Physical Society and awarded a prize by the U.S. Chapter of the Indian Physics Association in recognition of his outstanding scientific contributions. In 1990, Syracuse University honored him with a Chancellor's Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement.
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Post by Catman on Jan 28, 2019 2:59:28 GMT
Palus Somni (Latin for "Marsh of Sleep") is an area on the Moon of relatively level but somewhat uneven terrain that lies along the northeastern edge of Mare Tranquillitatis and the Sinus Concordiae. It has selenographic coordinates 14.1Β° N, 45.0Β° E, and has a diameter of 163 km.
The surface of this feature has low ridges and patches of level terrain. It has a higher albedo than the lunar mare to the west, and is a shade of grey typical of continental terrain. A few minor craters lie within its borders, with the flooded Lyell along the west edge, Crile to the east, and Franz to the northwest. The bright crater Proclus is to the northeast.
In 1907 it was described as having "a color which is unique upon the moon, a kind of light brown, quite unlike the hue of any of the other plains or mountain regions".
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Post by Catman on Jan 28, 2019 3:11:05 GMT
Grande Hermine was the name of the carrack that brought Jacques Cartier to Saint-Pierre on 15 June 1535, and upon which he discovered the estuary of the St. Lawrence River and the St. Lawrence Iroquoian settlement of Stadacona (near current-day Quebec City). She is believed to be represented in the local flag of Saint Pierre and Miquelon (the yellow ship). It is also featured on the Amory Adventure Award of Canadian Scouting. La grande hermine was the second ship Jacques Cartier used when exploring the st. Lawrence River.
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Post by Catman on Jan 28, 2019 3:51:35 GMT
The Turbit is a breed of fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding. Turbits, along with other varieties of domesticated pigeons, are all descendants from the rock pigeon (Columba livia). The breed is known for its peaked crest, short beak and frill of feathers on its breast.
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Post by Catman on Jan 28, 2019 4:01:06 GMT
In mathematics, the KadisonβSinger problem, posed in 1959, was a problem in functional analysis about whether certain extensions of certain linear functionals on certain C*-algebras were unique. The uniqueness was proven in 2013.
The statement arose from work on the foundations of quantum mechanics done by Paul Dirac in the 1940s and was formalized in 1959 by Richard Kadison and Isadore Singer. The problem was subsequently shown to be equivalent to numerous open problems in pure mathematics, applied mathematics, engineering and computer science. Kadison, Singer, and most later authors believed the statement to be false, but, in 2013, it was proven true by Adam Marcus, Daniel Spielman and Nikhil Srivastava, who received the 2014 PΓ³lya Prize for the achievement.
The solution was made possible by a reformulation provided by Joel Anderson, who showed in 1979 that his "paving conjecture", which only involves operators on finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, is equivalent to the KadisonβSinger problem. Nik Weaver provided another reformulation in a finite-dimensional setting, and this version was proved true using random polynomials.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Jan 28, 2019 19:48:01 GMT
The average family of 5 in Africa uses 5 gallons of water per day. The average family of 5 in the USA uses 250 gallons of water per day. Maybe so... but we don't use African water. lol
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Post by Catman on Jan 30, 2019 1:48:04 GMT
Simon Estes (born March 2, 1938) is an operatic bass-baritone of African-American descent who had a major international opera career beginning in the 1960s. He has sung at most of the world's major opera houses as well as in front of presidents, popes and internationally renowned figures and celebrities including Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Boris Yeltsin, Yasser Arafat, Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu. Notably, he was part of the first generation of black opera singers to achieve widespread success and is viewed as part of a group of performers who were instrumental in helping to break down the barriers of racial prejudice in the opera world.
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Post by Catman on Jan 31, 2019 4:45:22 GMT
The Robert H. Sunday House is located in Marshalltown, Iowa, United States. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the Usonian style, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. Initially the Sunday's choose the Usonian Automatic, a natural concrete block model, for their home. When it provided unworkable, Wright sent the plans for this house. In style and materials it is very similar to the 1953 Usonian Exhibition House. It was the sixth of seven houses designed by Wright and built in this style in Iowa. Sunday, who owned Marshall Lumber in Marshalltown, acted as his own general contractor. In fact, he and his wife did much of the work themselves. It is also believed to be last of this style built in brick. John H. Howe, a Wright assistant who supervised the initial construction, designed an addition to this house in 1970 that conforms seamlessly with the original. It includes the family room, family room terrace, and the dining room. The original house followed an "L" shaped plan, and with the addition it is now a "T" shaped plan. Howe had previously designed (1964) the building for Sunday's business.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 31, 2019 5:36:55 GMT
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Post by Catman on Jan 31, 2019 16:16:04 GMT
Crowds is a proposed anonymity network for anonymous web browsing. The main idea behind Crowds anonymity protocol is to hide each user's communications by routing them randomly within a group of similar users. Neither the collaborating group members nor the end receiver can therefore be sure where in the group the packet originated. Crowds was designed by Michael K. Reiter and Aviel D. Rubin. It defends against internal attackers and a corrupt receiver, but provides no anonymity against a global attacker or a local eavesdropper (see "Crowds: Anonymity For Web Transactions"). Crowds is vulnerable to the predecessor attack; this was discussed in Reiter and Rubin's paper and further expanded in "The Predecessor Attack: An Analysis of a Threat to Anonymous Communications Systems" by Matthew K. Wright, Micah Adler, And Brian Neil Levine. Crowds introduced the concept of users blending into a crowd of computers.
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Post by Catman on Jan 31, 2019 16:35:41 GMT
Rinkitink in Oz: Wherein is Recorded the Perilous Quest of Prince Inga of Pingaree and King Rinkitink in the Magical Isles that Lie Beyond the Borderland of Oz is the tenth book in the Land of Oz series written by L. Frank Baum. Published on June 20, 1916, with full-color and black-and-white illustrations by artist John R. Neill, it is significant that no one from Oz appears in the book until its climax; this is due to Baum's having originally written most of the book as an original fantasy novel over ten years earlier, in 1905. Most of the action takes place on three islands β Pingaree, Regos, and Coregos β and within the Nome King's caverns. Since the original ruler of the nomes, Roquat β who later renamed himself Ruggedo, was deposed in 1914's Tik-Tok of Oz, Baum had to cleverly rework the tale to accommodate his successor, the well-intentioned β but politically motivated β Kaliko.
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Post by Catman on Jan 31, 2019 17:33:49 GMT
Botnfjellet Mountain (71Β°45β²S 11Β°25β²ECoordinates: 71Β°45β²S 11Β°25β²E) is a mountain, 2,750 metres (9,020 ft) high, forming the northeast and east walls of Livdebotnen Cirque in the Humboldt Mountains of Queen Maud Land. It was discovered and photographed by the Third German Antarctic Expedition, 1937β39. It was mapped by Norway from air photos and surveys by the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1956β60, and named "Botnfjellet" (the cirque mountain).
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Post by Catman on Jan 31, 2019 17:37:29 GMT
Green cheese is a fresh cheese that has not thoroughly dried nor aged, which is white in colour and usually round in shape. The Oxford English Dictionary gives a reference from the year 1542 of the four sorts of cheese. The first sort is green cheese, which is not green by reason of colour but for its newness or under-ripened state, for the whey is not half pressed out of it yet. The phrase is not commonly used to describe the colour of a cheese, though there are some cheeses with a greenish tint, usually from mold or added herbs.
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Post by deembastille on Jan 31, 2019 18:05:27 GMT
The average family of 5 in Africa uses 5 gallons of water per day. The average family of 5 in the USA uses 250 gallons of water per day. Maybe so... but we don't use African water. lol Have you SEEN Africa water?????
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Post by Catman on Jan 31, 2019 19:30:14 GMT
Dacryobolus gracilis is a species of crust fungus in the family Fomitopsidaceae. This brown rot fungus was described as new to science in 2016 by Hai-Sheng Yuan. It has a fragile, waxy fruit body with small, slender spines. The fungus has been found in Chongqing and Guangxi, in southwestern China.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Feb 1, 2019 2:11:29 GMT
There were 800,000 women who served in the Soviet Armed Forces during the war, which is roughly 3 percent of total military personnel. The number of women in the Soviet military in 1943 was 348,309, 473,040 in 1944, and then 463,503 in 1945. Of the medical personnel in the Red Army, 40% of paramedics, 43% of surgeons, 46% of doctors, 57% of medical assistants, and 100% of nurses were women. Nearly 200,000 were decorated and 89 of them eventually received the Soviet Union's highest award, the Hero of the Soviet Union, among which some served as pilots, snipers, machine gunners, tank crew members and partisans, as well as in auxiliary roles
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Feb 1, 2019 4:55:10 GMT
What are groups of pheasants called?
It depends on how many you're talking about. Two pheasants is a brace, or a pair. A family group of pheasants is called a brood. A group of pheasants may also be known as a flock or a bouquet. A large group of pheasants is a nye or nide.
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Post by Catman on Feb 8, 2019 18:30:19 GMT
The Bering Canyon is the longest of the Bering Sea submarine canyons; it extends about 400 km across the Bering shelf and slope. It is confined at its eastern edge by the Aleutian Islands. The width of the canyon at the shelf break is about 65 km, only about two-thirds that of the Zhemchug Canyon and Navarin Canyons, but because of its great length, the Bering Canyon has the largest area. At a depth of 3200 m, the Bering Canyon thalweg reaches the Aleutian Basin, where a low-relief submarine channel-lobe system has developed.
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Post by Catman on Feb 8, 2019 18:31:49 GMT
Mount Kuma (ηγΆε²³ Kuma-ga-dake), or Mount Kumaga, is a stratovolcano located in the Daisetsuzan Volcanic Group of the Ishikari Mountains, HokkaidΕ, Japan.
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Post by Catman on Feb 8, 2019 18:34:59 GMT
Kiwai is a Papuan language, or languages, of southern Papua New Guinea. Dialects number 1,300 Kope, 700 Gibaio, 1,700 Urama, 700 Arigibi (together "Northeast Kiwai"), 3,800 Coast, 1,000 Daru, 4,500 Island, 400 Doumori (together "Southern Kiwai"). Wurm and Hattori (1981) classify Arigibi as a separate language.
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