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Liberia from 1912 to 1930
Daniel Edward Howard was the President of Liberia from 1912 to 1920 and had to deal with wars on all fronts - internally and externally. The finances of the State were so bad that the pay of government employees was suspended for months a at time.
The European war, World War I, resulted in the... |
In the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle the active, determining principle of a thing. The term was traditionally used to translate Plato's eidos, by which he meant the permanent reality that makes a thing what it is, in contrast to the particulars that are finite and subject to change. Each form is the pattern of a pa... |
Architecture of Global Positioning System (GPS)
GPS or Global positioning system is a satellite based navigation system that provides the exact location and time of an object at any place in the globe in all weather conditions. This is one of the best example of technological advancement in the field of science and tec... |
Affective disorders are a set of psychiatric diseases, also called mood disorders. The main types of affective disorders are depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety disorder. Symptoms vary by individual, but they typically affect mood. They can range from mild to severe.
A psychiatrist or other trained mental health ... |
Arawak and Carib Indians lived on the northern edges of South America
for centuries. In 1498, the Spanish
explorer, Alonso de Ojeda (accompanying Columbus on his second voyage to the New World
) is generally considered the first European to discover what is now called Suriname.
Dutch settlement on the continent began i... |
The differences between the Spanish language of Spain and Spanish from Latin America are something like the differences between British English and American English. People from the Spanish-speaking world can communicate with others as easily as people throughout the English-speaking world can. Although there are diffe... |
We are often impressed by a person who is the “first” to do something. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay are renowned as the first to reach the summit of Mt. Everest in 1953. Christopher Columbus is famous for his success as the first to reach the Americas in 1492. Magellan’s expedition was the first to circumnavigate ... |
The Maginot Line dominated French military thinking in the inter-war years. The Maginot Line was a vast fortification that spread along the French/German border but became a military liability when the Germans attacked France in the spring of 1940 using blitzkrieg – a tactic that completely emasculated the Maginot Line... |
Just How Earth-like is the Newest Planet?
Astrobiology Magazine — In the land rush known as extrasolar planet hunting, the most prized real estate is advertised as "Earth-like." On Monday, June 13, scientists raced to plant their flag on a burning hunk of rock orbiting a red star.
This newly discovered planet is about ... |
To ensure that, by 2015, all children have access to and complete primary education that is free, compulsory and of good quality
Achieve universal primary education
Universal education will speed progress towards all development goals
Almost all of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are interdependent, but achievi... |
Researchers at a Dutch university have devised a method of ‘substantially improving’ the production of relatively inexpensive dye-sensitised solar cells. Long touted as a cheap alternative to high-cost silicon solar cells, dye-sensitised cells imitate the natural conversion of sunlight into energy by plants and light-s... |
Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files.
Make gets its knowledge of how to build your program from a file called the makefile, which lists each of the non-source files and how to compute it from other files. When you write a pro... |
Rise and Fall
Regardless of the obscurity of their origins, it is clear that a distinctive Etruscan culture evolved about the 8th cent. B.C., developed rapidly during the 7th cent., achieved its peak of power and wealth during the 6th cent., and declined during the 5th and 4th cent. Etruria had no centralized governmen... |
Today, let's see what mathematics can tell us about language. The University of Houston Mathematics Department presents this program about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
In the novel The Count of Monte Cristo, one of the most memorable characters is Monsieur No... |
Common Core Standards:
(RF.1.4)-Read with Sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
(RF.1.4a)-Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
(RF.1.4b)-Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
(RF.1.4c)-Use context to confirm or self-correct wo... |
Corals around the world, already threatened by pollution, destructive fishing practices and other problems, are also widely regarded as among the ecosystems likely to be first — and most — threatened with destruction as earth’s climate warms.
But there is reason to hope, researchers are reporting. The scientists, from ... |
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Overview and Purpose:
The students will explore and create a poster design using polygons... |
James Madison (1751-1836) was the principal architect of the United States Constitution and the fourth president of the United States. During the Revolution, he helped draft Virginia's state constitution and served in the Continental Congress. In the years immediately following the war, he grew convinced that domestic ... |
The earth is performing an enormous disposal service for the human race. About half of the carbon we are dumping into the atmosphere does not stay there and is instead taken up by the oceans and land. Were this not the case, scientists say, the earth would probably be warming far more rapidly.
One of the biggest questi... |
Classification of the Chemical Elements
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Purham, James Chicago Vocational High School
1. The students will learn how the chemical elements are arranged on
the PERIODIC TABLE.
2. Given adequate information, students will be able to arrange the
elements on the PERIODIC TABLE.
3. Students will lea... |
In optics, an aperture is a hole or an opening through which light travels. More specifically, the aperture of an optical system is the opening that determines the cone angle of a bundle of rays that come to a focus in the image plane. The aperture determines how collimated the admitted rays are, which is of great impo... |
This tally shows that Jackson received a plurality of 99 electoral votes, falling 32 votes shy of the majority required by the Constitution. Since no candidate received a majority of the electoral votes, the House retired to its chamber to select a President.
House Speaker Henry Clay, who finished fourth and was no lon... |
The success of wind power is usually measured by the growth in installed capacity. This capacity, however, is peak power: the maximum power at optimum wind speed. The average output of a wind turbine is always lower.
The capacity factor of a wind turbine expresses the ratio of average power output to peak power. Many n... |
The Best Season (Grades K-1)
In this lesson, students will develop and use vocabulary for different types of weather; students will also gain an understanding of how the seasons change.
•Use descriptive words to convey basic ideas
•Use visual structures and functions of art to communicate ideas
•Learn that short-term w... |
is not a new phenomenon, nor is extinction. Many times in Earths history,
the climate has changed sometimes rapidly and drastically and
species have become extinct. At least five times, more than 50 percent of species
inhabiting the planet have died out, and as few as 2 to 4 percent of the species
that have ever lived ... |
MacGregor Campbell, consultant
Just because you're small doesn't mean you can't be strong. These micro-robots are half a millimeter wide but they can push around objects four times their own weight (see video above).
To create the plucky bots, Igor Aronson of the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois suspended tiny m... |
Word Study Program: Prefix Word Building Game
- Grades: 3–5
This word study game is created by attaching both of the game board files (see links below) to create a 2x2 game board. In this game, students build new words using prefixes and root words. The recording sheet also emphasizes vocabulary development as students... |
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) scientists are leading a multi-agency study which reveals that a very high-resolution Doppler radar has the unique capacity to detect individual cloud hydrometeors in the free atmosphere.
This study will improve scientists’ understanding of the dynamics and structure of cloud systems.
Th... |
Juneteenth holiday exhibit on display in Adams Library
An exhibit about the history of the Juneteenth holiday is on display in the Adams Library lobby through the month of June.
Juneteenth, or Emancipation Day, commemorates June 19, 1865, the date that a Union ship sailed into Galveston, Texas, and the city was informe... |
|Bulgaria Table of Contents
As in the case of World War I, Bulgaria fought on the losing German side of World War II but avoided open conflict with the Russian/Soviet state. Again the strains of war eroded public support and forced the wartime Bulgarian government out of office. But World War II heralded a drastic poli... |
In modern Korea, the Joseon Dynasty, also known as Yi Dynasty by the Japanese occupiers, (1392-1910 AD) became one of the longest reigns by a single dynasty in world history. During the dynasty, various kings, under the influence of Neo-Confucianism, introduced many social and cultural changes. The dynasty was consider... |
No single symptom positively identifies schizophrenia. An individual may have any combination of symptoms. Furthermore, an individual's symptoms can change over time. The symptoms of schizophrenia are divided into three categories: positive, negative and cognitive symptoms.
Positive Symptoms are also known as "psychoti... |
Neurophilosophy has a fascinating article on the recent archaeological discovery of numerous ancient Incan skulls of which over 1 in 6 showed signs of trepanation – an ancient form of brain surgery where a hole was drilled in the skull.
What’s surprising is just how common it was. 66 skulls from Incan burial sites had ... |
Arctic Tundra May Contribute to Warmer World
News story originally written on May 27, 2009
In 20 years of studying the Alaskan tundra, scientist Ted Schuur and his team have seen the frozen soil in their study area thaw, turning from hard ground to soft mud.
All over the Arctic, frozen soil, called permafrost, is thawi... |
The aluminum pendulum swinging back and forth in the center of the counter leaves a record of each oscillation in the tray of sand below.
Known as the Foucault Pendulum, after the French scientist who devised it, the demonstration is a graphic verification of the fact that the earth revolves about its axis.
Having once... |
Science Fair Project Encyclopedia
The term musical form is used in two related ways:
- a generic type of composition such as the symphony or concerto
- the structure of a particular piece, how its parts are put together to make the whole; this too can be generic, such as binary form or sonata form
Musical form (the who... |
Butterflies are colorful, diverse, abundant, and active during the day in warm months, making them an ideal pursuit for wildlife watchers. Butterflies and caterpillars provide food for birds and other animals and pollinate flowers. Also, butterflies are easy to attract to a garden or backyard landscape if a few simple ... |
Traditional Japanese legend maintains that Japan was founded in 600 BC by the Emperor Jimmu, a direct descendant of the sun goddess and ancestor of the present ruling imperial family. About AD 405, the Japanese court officially adopted the Chinese writing system. Together with the introduction of Buddhism in the sixth ... |
Continental Drift and Plate-Tectonics Theory
Source: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey
According to the theory of continental drift, the world was made up of a single continent through most of geologic time. That continent eventually separated and drifted apart, forming into the seven continents we have tod... |
Scientists Use Mathematical Shortcut to Create New Metals
CREDIT: Eugene Sergeev | Shutterstock
To create new alloys, metallurgists for centuries have relied on trial and error. That could change.
A group of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has come up with a mathematical model that lets them pre... |
Use these free reading worksheets to help you get involved with your child’s education. Worksheets are one of many tools available that can help you teach your kids to read. Make it a fun time and personalize the sheets to your child’s interests.
As a parent, you know your children better than anyone. Exposing your kid... |
The wartime brainchild of British scientist Geoffrey Pyke, Project Habbakuk envisaged the creation of an aircraft carrier made of ice.
The project took its name from Habakkuk, the Old Testament prophet:
'Behold ye among the heathen, and regard and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will ... |
The world's first meteorological satellite, was launched from Cape Canaveral on April 1, 1960. Named TIROS for Television Infrared Observation Satellite, it demonstrated the advantage of mapping the earth's cloud cover from satellite altitudes. TIROS showed clouds banded and clustered in unexpected ways. Sightings from... |
(c. 429-347 BC)
Plato was born in Athens of an aristocratic family. He recounts in the Seventh Letter, which, if genuine, is part of his autobiography, that the spectacle of the politics of his day brought him to the conclusion that only philosophers could be fit to rule. After the death of Socrates in 399, he travelle... |
Pediatricians can protect your child by administering not only active immunizations, but sometimes they can use what physicians call passive immunizations. If you hear your pediatrician use these terms, this is what they mean.
When your child receives an active immunization, the vaccine prevents an infectious disease b... |
Vermont Votes for Kids: A project of the Vermont Secretary of State
Teacher Materials for Lesson 3:
Dimpled Ballots, Hanging Chads and Reform
Vermont has never faced problems as large as Florida's in the 2000 presidential election. This is in large part because we stopped using voting machines in the 1980s and every to... |
Woodrow Wilson - American neutrality 1914—1916
With the outbreak of a general war in Europe in early August 1914, the great majority of Americans gave thanks for the Atlantic Ocean. Wilson and his advisers acted quickly to establish formal neutrality and to meet the rude shocks caused by the total disorganization of wo... |
Green Projects for Students
6 of 10 in Series: The Essentials of Living Green with Children
The ultimate goal of making schools eco-friendly is to get the children involved in projects that help build a greener community. If the school uses renewable energy, recycles, and composts food waste, it demonstrates green livi... |
In lessons such as Mr. Angelo’s, mathematics entails following rules and practicing procedures, often with little attention to the underlying concepts.5 Procedural fluency is given central attention. Adaptive reasoning is not Mr. Angelo’s goal: He does not offer a justification for the rule he is teaching, nor does he ... |
To see how this works, let's review some basic operations on vectors. The addition of two vectors can be shown graphically. It works as might be expected: Two vectors and add up to . Here is how it looks in a graph:
Notice how the first vector starts from the origin (0,0). The second vector is then placed with its tail... |
Of the Greek Philosophers, Aristotle probably has the largest body of surviving work. While Greek philosophy before Socrates and Plato was generally written in verse (Really), and all of Plato's works in dialogues, Aristotle's works appear as prose treatises, usually in major works outlining principles of a study, and ... |
A History Fair Argument is Composed of the Thesis, Claims, Evidence
Crafting Your Argument Exercise
This basic exercise may help students begin to sort through their knowledge about their subject to identify the most important points their thesis should address. Although the final thesis will remove the first-person la... |
From the late 1990s through nearly the entire decade that followed, Australia, already a dry place, suffered drought. Short of water and facing the prospect of long-term catastrophe, it embarked on building six major desalination plants.
Powering these plants could have led to a spike in carbon emissions, especially si... |
Mar. 16, 2001 Planetary scientists at Washington University in St. Louis and various collaborators have concluded that the Tharsis rise in Mars' Western Hemisphere is key to many of the Red Planet's mysteries, including its large-scale shape and gravity field, and its early climate and water distribution. Roger J. Phil... |
Science & Technology - Posted by Paul Mannion-Sheffield on Friday, March 9, 2012 11:49 - 2 Comments
Ultra high-res images with no-lens microscope
U. SHEFFIELD (UK) — A new electron microscope that works without a lens may create the highest resolution images ever seen.
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), which look... |
Each generation of landing technology addresses the challenges posed by the previous generation.
People have been fascinated with the idea of exploring Mars since the very beginning of the space age. Largely because of the belief that some form of life may have existed there at one time, surface exploration has been th... |
Transcription is the process by which the genetic information in DNA is converted into RNA. The mechanism of transcription can be described simply in 6 steps (5 in prokaryotes):
- The section of DNA to be transcribed is recognized by proteins involved in transcription.
- Hydrogen bonds between base pairs of DNA are bro... |
Classical Era Music Versus Classical Music
The term “classical music” has become something of a misnomer, used to describe virtually any music that was not written within the last fifty years. This can be quite misleading, as the term “Classical Music” is actually used to describe a very specific time period in music h... |
Bronchitis is an infection or inflammation of the large air passages to the lungs. (These airways are called bronchi.) When your child has a cold, sore throat, flu, or sinus infection, the virus that caused the misery can spread to the bronchi. Once the germs take hold there, the airways become swollen, inflamed, and p... |
This page is a stub for educational material on counting with a target audience of K-8 (age 5-13).
Counting and the Organization of the number system
Making connections between and number names and the concept of quantity. This can be taught by tagging or touching an item while saying the number word it goes with, for ... |
| Keep it Up!
||Additional Activity #1
Students strive to keep a ball in the air while naming healthy foods.
Students will identify a variety of healthy foods.
||One volleyball or beach ball for every group of four to five students
- Divide the class into four or five groups.
- Tell them you are going to review some he... |
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from datasets import load_dataset
faq = load_dataset(
"styal/filtered-finephrase-faq",
split="train[:50%]",
)
tutorial = load_dataset(
"styal/filtered-finephrase-tutorial",
split="train[:50%]",
)
table = load_dataset(
"styal/filtered-finephrase-table",
split="train[:50%]",
)
math = load_dataset(
"styal/filtered-finephrase-math",
split="train[:40%]",
)
py = load_dataset(
"styal/filtered-python-edu.eng",
split="train[:20%]",
)
faq = faq.remove_columns([col for col in faq.column_names if col != "text"])
math = math.remove_columns([col for col in math.column_names if col != "text"])
table = table.remove_columns([col for col in table.column_names if col != "text"])
tutorial = tutorial.remove_columns([col for col in tutorial.column_names if col != "text"])
py = py.remove_columns([col for col in py.column_names if col != "text"])
from datasets import concatenate_datasets
merged = concatenate_datasets([faq, math, table, py, tutorial])
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