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The alkanes are the hydrocarbons where all of the carbons are bonded to the other carbon atoms by single bonds. Alkanes may exist in a chain structure (either straight or branched) or in a ring structure. Alkanes that are acyclic (not in a...
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In law, an appeal is a process for making a formal challenge to an official decision. The specific procedures for appealing, including even whether there is a right of appeal from a particular type of decision, can vary greatly from country...
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An answer (derived from and, against, and the same root as swear) was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to some one or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defence, a reply to a question or objection, or a correc...
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Arrest warrant · Search warrant Probable cause · Knock-and-announce Exigent circumstance Reasonable suspicion Search and seizure · Search of persons Arrest  · Detention Right to silence · Miranda warning (...
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"America the Beautiful" is an American patriotic song....
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Artificial language is a term used to denote any language created by a person or a group of people for a certain purpose, usually when this purpose is hard to achieve by using natural languages. An artificial language may be of the followin...
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Assistive Computer Technology for Persons with Disabilities The personal computer (PC) can be the backbone of independence for millions of individuals with sensory, physical, and learning disabilities. Computers and information technology ...
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The abacus, an ancient calculating device, probably originated in Babylon around 2400 B. C. E. as a "counting box." It was the world's first calculator, and contemporary versions are still in use today. An abacus is a ...
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1.) Purpose - The purpose of the experiment was to classify biological solutions as acids or bases and to measure the pH of a solution while learning to relate the pH scale to how acidic or basic a solution is, and learning to explain how...
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Asphalt is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits. It is most commonly modeled as a colloid, with asphaltenes as the dispersed phase and maltenes as the ...
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The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) is a private, non-profit organization that serves as the United States administrator and coordinator for the voluntary private-sector standards system. Its statement of purpose is the "enhan...
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The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names. When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid -- i...
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The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It was the fifth human spaceflight of the Apollo program and the third human voyage to the moon. Launched on July 16, 1969, it carried Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, C...
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Apollo 8 was the first manned voyage to another celestial body. Its crew – Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders – became the first humans to escape Earth's gravity and the firs...
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In the future, passenger flight into space is likely to become as routine as air travel. In the early twenty-first century, however, opening up the space frontier is the duty of a select cadre of highly trained individuals. In the United S...
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Any reasonable person would agree that the problem of immigration to the United States is a pressing one. All compassion for this unfortunate group of creatures aside, it must be recognized that they pose a grave threat to our nation. They...
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The alkali metals are lithium (Li), sodium (Na), potassium (K), rubidium (Rb), cesium (Cs), and francium (Fr). All of the alkali metals are found in group IA (1) of the periodic table of the elements. Because chemical properties are determ...
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In logic, the argument form or test form of an argument results from replacing the different words, or sentences, that make up the argument with letters, along the lines of algebra; the letters represent logical variables. The sentence form...
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Atomic number is defined as the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom. This concept was historically important because it provided a theoretical basis for the periodic law. Dmitri Mendeleev's discovery of the periodic law in t...
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The knowledge of basic human structure is known as the science of anatomy. The term anatomy comes from the Greek word anatome, which literally means dissection and often encompasses many other disciplines, such as physiology (the study of...
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Affirming the consequent is a formal fallacy, committed by reasoning in the form:...
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Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky (1932--1986) was, arguably, the greatest filmmaker of his nation. While perhaps not the innovator that fellow Russian Sergei Eisenstein was, Tarkovsky nevertheless imbued each of his films with a poet...
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Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball. Emo Phillips If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you it's quite conscious. •Kingman Brewster, Jr. I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. •Abraham Lincoln Life is about not knowing,...
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Animals are multicellular, heterotrophic eukaryotes. Because animals are unable to make their own food, they must have some means of ingesting food. They do this by consuming plants, other animals, or decomposing organic matter, or by abso...
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The Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) ("Digging foot"), sometimes called "antbear"[1] is a medium-sized mammal native to Africa. The name comes from the Afrikaans/Dutch for "earth pig" (aarde earth, varken pig), because early settlers from Europe...
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The aardwolf (Proteles cristatus) is a small insectivorous hyena-like mammal, native to Eastern and Southern Africa. The name means "earth wolf" in Afrikaans.[2] It is also called "maanhaar-jackal" and "protelid". Unlike other hyenas (subfa...
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An adobe is a natural building material mixed from sand, clay, and straw, dung or other fibrous materials, which is shaped into bricks using frames and dried in the sun. It is similar to cob and mudbrick. Adobe structures are extremely dura...
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Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry. . . . and now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search Of foreign words. He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule,...
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Agatho is the name of several people including: Pope Agatho, a pope of the Catholic Church. Pope Agatho of Alexandria, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark. Agatho, the martyred son of Hor and Susia....
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For the queen of Greek mythology, see Agave (mythology). Agave is the name of a succulent plant of a large botanical genus of the same name, belonging to the family Agavaceae. if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHid...
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Aruba is a 32-kilometre (20 mi)-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea, 27 km (17 mi) north of the Paraguaná Peninsula, Falcón State, Venezuela. It is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. As a s...
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Tension, Compromise, and War Division among American colonies forms after the Revolutionary War because Britain is no longer the focus as an enemy. Under the Articles of the Confederation, governance is based on state legislature. In 1786...
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Aa is the name of a large number of small European rivers. The word is derived from the continental common Germanic word aha, cognate to the Latin aqua, meaning water. The following are the more important streams of this name: Two rivers in...
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Whoever would undertake the formidable task of writing the intellectual history of the twentieth century would be well advised to include in it the works of Arthur Koestler and the controversies they helped to spawn. These controversies we...
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The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometers (41.1 million square miles), it covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface. The first part of i...
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The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), whose pessimistic philosophy was widely known in the late 19th century in Europe and the United States, held that ultimate reality was nothing but senseless striving or will, having n...
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Republic of Angola República de Angola CAPITAL: Luanda FLAG: The upper half is red, the lower half black; in the center, a five-pointed yellow star and half a yellow cogwheel are crossed by a yellow machete. ANTHEM: Angola Avanti. M...
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Angola is located on the South Atlantic Coast of West Africa between Namibia and the Republic of the Congo. It also is bordered by the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia to the east. The country is divided into an arid coastal stri...
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The demographics of Angola consist of three main ethnic groups, each speaking a Bantu language: Ovimbundu 37%, Mbundu 25%, and Bakongo 13%. Other groups include Chokwe (or Lunda), Ganguela, Nhaneca-Humbe, Ambo, Herero, and Xindunga. In addi...
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This article is part of the series: Politics and government ofAngola...
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The Economy of Angola is the fastest-growing economy in Africa,[2] but is still recovering from the civil war that plagued Angola from independence in 1975 until 2002. Despite abundant natural resources, output per capita remains among the ...
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This article is about communications in Angola: if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } Telephone Telephone service is limited mostly to government and business use. 96,300 main lin...
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Transport in Angola comprises: if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } Railways total: 2,761 km narrow gauge: 2,638 km 1.067-m gauge; 123 km 0.600-m gauge (2002) there are three sep...
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The Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) is headed by a Chief of Staff who reports to the Minister of Defense. There are three divisions, the Army, Navy (Marinha de Guerra, MdG), and Air and Air Defense Forces (FAPA). Total manpower is about 110,000....
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This article is part of the series: Politics and government ofAngola...
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Morale is faith in the man at the top....
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The Arctic Ocean, located in the northern hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic north polar region, is the smallest of the world's five major oceanic divisions and the shallowest.[1] The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognize...
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Androids are mechanical, or otherwise artificial, creations in the shape of humans. They have long been a staple of science fiction. From the clockwork persons of myth to Isaac Asimov's humanoid robots, to Star Wars's C-3PO, ...
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This article is for quotes about the province of Alberta , Canada . Alberta is one of Canada's prairie provinces . It became a province on September 1 , 1905 . Alberta is located in Western Canada , bounded by the provinces of British Colu...
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The Arctic Circle is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. It is the parallel of latitude that (as of 2000) runs 66° 33′ 39″ (or 66.56083°) north of the Equator. The region north of this circle is know...
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