Feb
28
Indifference
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Indifference may refer to:
apathy, the lack of emotion, motivation, or enthusiasm; a psychological term for a state of indifference
“Indifference”, a song by Moby Grape from their 1967 album Moby Grape
“Indifference (song)”, a song by Pearl Jam from their 1993 album Vs. (Pearl Jam album)
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28
Sympetaly
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Sympetaly is the condition of some flowers in which the petals are fused together (sym- together). in some of these flowers, like with Gentiana asclepiadea are only partially fused at the base, but in other flowers, such as Gentiana andrewsii, they are fully fused and never open. Flowers with sympately may be self-pollinated, while others […]
Feb
28
Pollination
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Pollination is an important step in the reproduction of seed plants: the transfer of pollen grains (male gametes) to the plant carpel, the structure that contains the ovule (female gamete). The receptive part of the carpel is called a stigma in the flowers of angiosperms and a micropyle in gymnosperms. The study of pollination brings […]
Feb
28
KBOB-FM
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KBOB-FM is a commercial radio station located in DeWitt, Iowa, broadcasting to the Quad Cities, Iowa area on 104.9 FM. KBOB-FM airs an active rock music format branded as “Rock 104.9″.
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Feb
28
(Nothing But) Flowers
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“(Nothing But) Flowers” is a song by the rock band Talking Heads. It appears as on the band’s final album Naked, released in 1988. It was also released as a single accompanied by a successful music video. In addition to the band, the song features Kirsty MacColl on backup vocals and The Smiths guitarist Johnny […]
Feb
28
Gasteranthus
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Gasteranthus is a genus of 35 species of herbs and soft-stemmed subshrubs in the flowering plant family Gesneriaceae. The species occur in Central America and South America, from southernmost Mexico to BoliviaWeber & Skog (2007). Numerous species are threatened with extinction, mainly due to deforestation.
These plants inhabit tropical forest and cloud forest. They grow in […]
Feb
28
Roswell Garst
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Roswell Garst (June 13, 1898 - November 4, 1977) was a farmer and seed company executive. He developed hybrid corn seed in 1930 that allowed greater crop yields than open-pollinated corn. He was perhaps most well known for hosting Nikita Khrushchev on his farm in Coon Rapids, Iowa on September 23, 1959. […]
Feb
28
Inconsistent triad
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An inconsistent triad consists of three propositions of which at most two can be true. For example:
Alice loves me.
If Alice loves me, she would have sent flowers.
Alice hasn’t sent flowers.
If one finds oneself believing all three propositions of an inconsistent triad, then (to be rational) one must give up or modify at […]
Feb
28
Thermal diffusion
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May refer to Brownian motion (at constant non-zero temperature).
May refer to diffusion in a temperature gradient.
See also Diffusion.
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Feb
28
Henry Clarke
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Henry Clarke may refer to:
Henri Jacques Guillaume Clarke (1765–1818), duc de Feltre, French Minister of War from 1807 to 1814
Henry Clarke (Australian politician) (1822–1907), was a member of the New South Wales (Australia) Parliament
Henry Edward Clarke (1829–1892), a businessman and politician in Ontario, Canada
Henry Joseph Clarke (1833–1889), Premier of Manitoba, Canada, from 1874 to 1878
Henry […]
Feb
28
Crisis (British band)
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Crisis was a British political punk rock group formed in 1977.
Crisis performed at rallies for Rock Against Racism (RAR), and the Anti-Nazi League (ANL), organizations that neoist and Crisis/Death in June critic Stewart Home wrote were fronts for the Socialist Workers Party.[1] Home further stated that the SWP organized a tour of Norway for Crisis […]
Feb
28
SchoolForge
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SchoolForge is a coalition of open source software development groups, school boards, curriculum advisory panels, and other organizations intent on advancing the use of Open Source Software and Open Content in Educational systems, world-wide. The name was inspired by the SourceForge way of doing things but with a focused slant toward “unleashing the power of […]
Feb
28
NASA Clean Air Study
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The NASA Clean Air Study has been led by the NASA in association with the Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA). Its results suggest that certain common indoor plants may provide a natural way of removing toxic agents such as benzene, formaldehyde and trichloroethylene from the air, helping neutralize the effects of sick building syndrome.
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Feb
28
Autumn Moon
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Autumn Moon () is a 1992 film directed by Clara Law and written by Eddie Ling-Ching Fong.
A Hong Kong high school girl befriends a twenty-something Japanese man visiting Hong Kong.
The film stars Japanese actor Masatoshi Nagase therefore dialogue is a mixture of English, Cantonese, and Japanese. Hong Kong musician Tats Lau contributes to the film […]
Feb
28
Hard sectoring
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Hard sectoring in a magnetic or optical data storage device is an archaic form of sectoring which uses a physical mark or hole in the recording medium to reference sector locations.
In older 8- and 5¼-inch floppy disks, hard sectoring was implemented by punching “sector holes” in the disk to mark the start
of each sector. These […]
Feb
27
Wizard (band)
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There are at least two bands named Wizard
Wizard (German band), a German power metal band
Wizard (psychedelic band), a psychedelic band from the 1960s and 70s
See also
Wizards (band), A power metal band from Brasil
Wizzard, a 1970s British glam rock band
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Feb
27
Streptophytina
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Streptophytina is formally a subdivision or subphylum (but sometimes used at the division level, where more appropriate would be the use of the term Streptophyta, see below) which contains two classes: Charophyceae, containing the Charales order (Charophytes sensu stricto); and Embryophyceae, which contains the embryophytes (land plants, bryophytes, and vascular plants).
The term streptophyta, formally a […]
Feb
27
Westernesse
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Westernesse is a fictional kingdom in the Middle English romance of King Horn. It has been associated with various regions in the British Isles, among which the Wirral District in Cheshire. Whether or not Westernesse should be identified with one or more real-world locations remains, however, a point of dispute, since the narrative contains little […]
Feb
27
Harold Hilton
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Harold H. Hilton (January 14, 1869 – March 5, 1942) was an English golfer.
Hilton was born in West Kirby. In 1892, he won The Open Championship at Muirfield, becoming the second amateur to do so. He won again in 1897 at his home club, Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake. The only other amateurs who have […]
Feb
27
Sarra Manning
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Sarra Manning is a writer from England. She attended the University of Sussex and took up an English with Media Studies degree. She became a freelance writer after submitting her work to Melody Maker. She worked as the entertainment editor for five years of the now-defunct teen magazine J-17. Manning was the editor of […]