In ecology, predation is a biological interaction where a predator (an organism that is hunting) preys on its target (the organism that is struck). Killers might or may not eliminate their target prior to feeding on them, however the act of predation often leads to the death of its prey as well as the ultimate absorption of the target's tissue through consumption. Thus predation is often, though not constantly, carnivory. Various other classifications of consumption are herbivory (consuming...
Thursday, November 27, 2014
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Sailing stones, sliding rocks, and moving rocks all refer to a geological phenomenon where rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without human or animal intervention.
The stones move only every two or three years and most tracks develop over three or four years. Stones with rough bottoms leave straight striated tracks while those with smooth bottoms tend to wander. Stones sometimes turn over, exposing another edge to the ground and leaving a different track...
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The Queen of Sheba is a queen who shows up in the Bible. The tale of her visit to King Solomon has actually undergone extensive Jewish, Arabian and Ethiopian discussions, and also has become the topic of among one of the most common and also productive patterns of legends in the Orient.
The queen of Sheba came to Jerusalem "containing a very excellent retinue, with camels bearing spices, and very much gold, as well as precious rocks" (I Kings 10:2). She came "to show him containing...
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"Rods" (occasionally referred to as "skyfish", "air rods", or "solar companies") is a term utilized in cryptozoology, ufology, as well as outdoor photography to refer to elongated artefacts through light-rods made by cameras. Videos of rod-shaped things relocating rapidly via the air were claimed by some ufologists and also cryptozoologists to be alien life forms, "extradimensional" creatures, or quite tiny UFOs. Subsequent experiments revealed that these poles appear in film as a...
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A piranha or pirana is a member of family Characidae in order Characiformes, an omnivorous freshwater fish that populates South American streams. In Venezuela, they are called caribes. They are recognized for their sharp teeth, effective jaws, as well as starved cravings for meat.
Traditionally, just the 4 genera Pristobrycon, Pygocentrus, Pygopristis, and also Serrasalmus are taken into consideration to be real piranhas, due to their specificed teeth. A recent analysis revealed,...
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Havana is the capital city, district, major port, and leading industrial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million residents, and also it covers a total amount of 728.26 km2 (281.18 sq mi) making it the largest city by area, the most populated city, and also the third largest metropolitan location in the Caribbean area. The city extends primarily westward as well as southward from the bay, which is entered via a narrow inlet as well as which splits right into three...
An Introduction To Quakerism: Christian Religion and Beliefs Documentary - World Documentary Channel
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Quakers (or Friends, as they refer to themselves) are members of a family of spiritual movements collectively known as the Religious Society of Friends. Lots of Friends view themselves as participants of a Christian denomination. Unlike many various other groups that arised within Christianity, the Religious Society of Friends has definitely attempted to avoid creeds as well as ordered structures.
Today, a little much less than half of Friends around the world method configured worship...
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Most generally, a people (or civilisation in British English) is any intricate state culture identified by urban development, social stratification, symbolic communication forms (normally, creating systems), and also a perceived separation from and also dominance over the natural surroundings. Civilizations are thoroughly linked with and usually more defined by various other socio-politico-economic characteristics, including centralization, the domestication of both human beings and...
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Opus Dei, officially called The Prelature of the Holy Cross and also Opus Dei (Latin: Praelatura Sanctae Crucis et Operis Dei), is an organization of the Roman Catholic Church that educates that everybody is called to sanctity as well as that normal life is a course to sacredness. Most of its subscription are lay people, containing secular priests under the governance of a prelate (bishop) elected by specific participants as well as selected by the Pope. Opus Dei is Latin for Work of...
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The Victorian Railways operated trains in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1983. The initial train lines in Victoria were exclusive companies, yet when these business neglected or skipped, the Victorian Railways was set up to take over their operations. A lot of the lines run by the Victorian Railways were of 5 feet 3 in (1,600 mm), nevertheless the train lines also operated around five 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge lines in between 1898 as well as 1962, as well as a...
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is one of the principal intelligence-gathering companies of the United States federal government. The CIA's head office is in Langley, Virginia, a few miles west of Washington, D.C. Its employees run from U.S. consular offices and many other locations around the world. The only independent U.S. knowledge company, it states to the Director of National Intelligence.
The CIA has 3 standard primary tasks, which are gathering info concerning foreign...
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Alaskan king crab fishing is performed during the fall months in the waters off the coast of Alaska as well as the Aleutian Islands. The industrial harvest is performed throughout a quite brief season, as well as the catch is delivered worldwide. Great deals of king crab are also captured in International and russian waters.
In 1980, at the top of the king crab market, Alaskan fisheries generated up to 200,000,000 lb (91,000,000 kg) of crab. As an outcome the existing season is very...
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Navigation is a field that concentrates on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one location to one more. The area of navigation consists of 4 general groups: land navigation, marine gps, aeronautic gps, as well as space gps.
It is additionally the term of art made use of for the specificed know-how utilized by navigators to carry out navigation activities. All navigational strategies include locating the navigator's position as compared...
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Vikings (from Old Norse vikingr) were Norse seafarers, talking the Old Norse language, who raided and also traded from their Scandinavian homelands throughout large areas of north as well as main Europe, along with European Russia, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries. The term is additionally frequently expanded in modern English and also other vernaculars to the residents of Viking residence areas throughout just what has actually become called the Viking Age. This duration...
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Scotland's only land border is with England, and runs for 96 kilometres (60 mi) between the basin of the River Tweed on the east coast and the Solway Firth in the west. The island of Ireland lies only 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the south-western peninsula of Kintyre; Norway is 305 kilometres (190 mi) to the east and the Faroes, 270 kilometres (168 mi) to the north.
The territorial extent of Scotland is generally that established by the 1237 Treaty of York between Scotland and the Kingdom...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
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In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, Dakota-Lakota-Nakota speakers lived in the upper Mississippi Region in existing day Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and the Dakotas. Conflicts with Anishnaabe and Cree peoples pushed the Lakota west into the Great Plains in the mid- to late-17th century.
Early Lakota past is taped in their Winter counts, visual schedules repainted on hides or later on recorded on paper. The Battiste Good winter count documents Lakota past back to 900 CE, when...
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The Nazca Lines are a series of old geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. They were marked as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. The high, arid plateau flexes greater than 80 km (50 mi) between the communities of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana about 400 km south of Lima. Although some neighborhood geoglyphs resemble Paracas motifs, scholars think the Nazca Lines were produced by the Nazca culture between 400 as well as 650 AD. The hundreds of individual...
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Fluoride is an inorganic anion of fluorine with the chemical formula F
. It contributes no color to fluoride salts. Fluorite is roughly 49 % fluoride by mass, making fluoride the major component of fluorite besides calcium ions. Fluoride contributes a distinct harsh preference, however no odor to fluoride salts. Its salts are mostly mined as a precursor to hydrogen fluoride. It is identified as a weak base, focused fluoride remedies are harsh and could attack the skin.
Fluoride is...
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Endometriosis is an immune and also hormone system condition in which cells just like that which line the womb (endometrium) grow outside the uterine tooth cavity, most commonly on the membrane layer which lines the abdominal tooth cavity, the abdominal muscle. The uterine cavity is lined with endometrial cells, which are intoxicated of women hormones. Endometrial cells in areas outside the womb are additionally affected by hormone adjustments and react in a means that resembles the cells...
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Camouflage has been a subject of interest as well as study in zoology for more than a century. Baseding on Charles Darwin's 1859 concept of all-natural selection, functions such as camouflage developed by offering individual animals with a reproductive benefit, enabling them to leave even more spawn, generally, than other members of the same species. In his Origin of Species, Darwin composed:
Kings of Camouflage
When we see leaf-eating insect, and bark-feeders mottled-grey;...
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Wildlife traditionally refers to non-domesticated animal species, but has come to include all plants, fungi and other organisms which grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans. Domesticating wild plant and animal species for human benefit has occurred many times all over the planet, and has a major impact on the environment, both negative and positive.
Wildlife can be found in all ecosystems. Deserts, forests, rain forests, plains, grasslands, and other areas...
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RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the morning of 15 April 1912 after ramming an iceberg during her initial trip from Southampton, UK to New York City, US. The sinking of Titanic induced the deaths of more than 1,500 people in one of the most dangerous peacetime maritime calamities in contemporary past history. The RMS Titanic, the biggest ship afloat at the time it got in service, was the minute of three Olympic lesson sea linings run by...
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Michel de Nostredame (depending on the source, 14 or 21 December 1503 -- 2 July 1566), often Latinised as Nostradamus, was a French dispenser and reputed seer which published collections of prophecies that have actually because come to be renowned worldwide. He is most ideal known for his publication Les Propheties, the first edition of which showed up in 1555. Given that the publication of this book, which has hardly ever been out of print considering that his death, Nostradamus has...
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