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Brief History of Libraries

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  Back on that day, before the advent of online search engines, people with questions generally turn to the most reliable source they know: their local library. All you have to do is ask, and the reference librarian will answer your question directly or direct you to a book that contains the information you are looking for. The internet has replaced this important service for many, but the brick-and-mortar library remains very popular, even in the world that continues to grow. They are important and many, more knowledge fortresses. The library concept comes from thousands of years. The first library held systematically in the ancient Middle East was founded in the 7th century BC by Asyrian Ruler Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, in contemporary Iraq. It contains around 30,000 pointed tablets assembled by the topic. Many works are archive documents and scientific texts, but there are also literary works, including the ancient epic of Gilgamesh. Like many bibliophils, ashurbanipal is very protec

The eternal heritage of the treasure island

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  When we think of pirates, there are almost universal images that comes to mind, which have been enshrined throughout pop culture. Pirates has developed a sufficient reputation to say things like "shivering me wood!" and "Arr!" And because it has peg legs - maybe even wearing a parrot on their shoulders. This pirate idea, well the way they talk and the way they see, mostly come from the popular novel island and one of the film adaptations. Unfortunately, it might not have a lot of bearings in reality. Treasure island serialized in magazines from October 1881 to January 1882 and published in the book form in 1883. It was written by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson under the pseudonym "Captain George North." This novel follows the Protagonist of the Youth Jim Hawkins, who found himself having a map that leads to buried treasures. It sounds familiar, right? Jim led the reader on the wild adventure, met a pirate like a one-legged captain John Silver an

What is the difference between deep web and dark web?

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When you think of a deep web, what comes to mind? Illegal activities? Phishing and fraud? Bitcoin? Alright, you will be fine ... and a little wrong. These are examples of things found on the dark web, a collection of websites that have hidden IP addresses and may require certain software to access. The dark web is only a small part (0.01%) of the inner web, which contains internet content that cannot be searched by your standard search engine. In other words, if Google can't find what you are looking for, it might still be out there on the World Wide Web; It's only on the web in a more difficult access to access. (If Google can find it, then it's on the surface web, which forms around 0.03% of the internet.) Deep web and dark web have been compiled in public discourse. Most people do not know that webs contain most benign sites, such as password-protected e-mail accounts, certain parts of paid subscription services such as Netflix, and sites that can only be accessed throug

What is the difference between emojis and emoticons?

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  The internet has very changed the way we communicate . Because body language and verbal tones are not translated in our text or email message, we have developed an alternative way to deliver nuanced meaning. The most prominent change for our online style is the addition of two new hieroglif languages: emoticons and emojis. Let's start with the older than both: emoticons. Emoticons are punctuation, letters, and numbers used to make illustrated icons that generally display emotions or sentiments . (It's actually where the portmanteau "emoticon" comes from: an emotional icon.) Oh, and because of the limit of our keyboard, most emoticons need to be read to the side. Emoticons appeared after a wrong joke at Carnegie Mellon University in 1982. Gag about fake mercury spills posted to the online message board sent the university to Tizi, and because of this confusion, Scott E. Fahlman suggested jokes and non-pekes marked by two sets The character we now recognizes as a st

Does Ball Lightning Exist?

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  More than 200 years ago, the crew of the HMS Warren Hastings reported being attacked by giant balls of fire that descended from the sky. The mysterious fireballs reportedly set the ship on fire and killed several people. A century later, a “dazzling globe of electric fire” appeared in the cottage where British occultist Aleister Crowley was staying, which he described in detail in his autobiography. He claimed that the floating orb instantly exploded, slightly shocking his hand. Frightening, cryptic, and potentially dangerous, this phenomenon is known today as ball lightning. Sightings of mysterious floating balls of light have captivated humanity across many different cultures, inspiring a myriad of fantastical explanations and mythical stories. In Australian Outback folklore they are called Min Min lights—strange fuzzy balls of light that follow people around at night. The Japanese hitodama are ghostly balls of fire thought to be the apparitions of souls separated from their physic

Are Chimpanzees Cannibals?

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  For years, no one knew why female chimpanzees prefer to give birth alone. The birth of chimpanzees in nature is rarely seen by researchers, mostly because pregnant women often take "maternity leave" from their family units, hiding themselves until their children were born. On December 2, 2014, researcher Hitonaru Nishie and Michio Nakamura witnessed birth in the Mahala Mountains in Tanzania. For unknown reasons, this mother does not take maternity leave; He drove in front of about 20 other knots. As Nishie and Nakamura watched, the baby "grabbed immediately after giving birth and consequently conquered by adult men," a sight that made them argued that cannibalism was the reason a chimpanzee mother often left her group before labor began. Babies are not the only chimpanzees that are risky. In the planet earth segment narrated by David Attenborough, a chimpanzee family in Africa the accidental attack stage in the nearest enemy: other chimpanzees. When some attackers

Why Is the Platypus a Mammal?

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  When the 18th century Zoology George Shaw published the first scientific description of the plaatypus, many of his contemporaries did not believe that animals were real. Shaw himself initially believed the specimen became a trick consisting of part of the body from different animals, sewn together to create the resemblance of extraordinary creatures. With bills, webbed feet, and behavior such as eggs lay eggs and produce poisons that oppose other known mammals norms, it is not difficult to see how platypus avoids the recognition of European naturalists, who have just begun to observe and categorize unique fauna found in Australia. Reminiscent of the classic line of DC comics, scientists and observers find themselves asking: Is it a bird? Is this a plane? Maybe the transitional reptile species that display initial mammal physiology? Platypus, like Superman, nothing above. Found in the new water and estuary of Australia, Platypus is a small hairy mammal with different bills and tails

The oldest human ancestors

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  Jian Han, Universitas Northwest, China In 2017, our family tree got a little higher: the team of international scientists identified well-maintained fossils from the primitive sea creatures they said were the oldest ancestors known from various animals, including humans. Saccornhytus creatures named microscopic after the body shape such as his bag in the early Period of the Cambrian around 540 million years ago. Saccorhytus will only be around one millimeter and will live between sand granules on the seabed. To the naked, fossils, found in Central China, looks like dark spots in limestone . However, under an electron microscope, however, it is possible to see significant details: the creatures are bilaterally symmetrical with a body dominated by a large hole that might be used for food waste and excretations (researchers do not find anal signs.) , The body's body cover might be thin and flexible, indicating that it can move by stretching or making a contract movement. Arranged

Do humans provide benefits for planet Earth except for ourselves?

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  This question is fully anthropocentric. The only "earth is", even though it has switched constant since its formation. There is no instant existence in the past earth or future which can be considered better or worse, except in human terms. In Western Europe, the human society in depth changed the landscape during the bronze age and its surroundings with the opening of forests and periodic burning, promoting the dominance of the bush community known as Heathlands. Many insects, amphibians, birds and plants are growing rapidly on them, and may be extinct if the Heathlands disappear. Similar cases can be found in other environments such as dry cereal of Mediterranean farmland or a mixture of tree grass in Spanish Dehes. Without human intervention, the landscape will be more homogeneous, and fewer species will live there. Unfortunately, humans are also responsible for the replacement of this landscape with those with low biodiversity due to more intensive use. Mike followed S

How Oprah was sued for distinguishing burgers

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  In December 1997 Oprah Winfrey, The American Talk Show Host, and Howard Lyman, a former cattle farmer and then the director of eating a human society with the Curios Campaign, was sued by the Federal District Court in Texas on accusation of underestimated beef. The lawsuit, which grew from the 1996 segment of the Oprah Winfrey event called "dangerous food," the burial debate and occasionally humor in the press about whether it is possible to slander hamburgers. Although Winfrey and Lyman finally won in court, the laws where the lawsuit was brought, a fake decline in food products that were easily damaged (1995), remained in books in Texas, as well as similar laws in 12 other states. Known as laws lack food, food-food-food, or "veggie-libel", this law is designed to enable agricultural and food companies to prevent candidates for critics to instill the safety of their products. They continue to serve that purpose today. "Oprah" case "Dangerous food,&

Is the English African American language?

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  In December 1996, national attention in the United States turned to new resolutions passed by the UNIFIED OAKLAND school district (OUSD). The controversial resolution defines what is called "Ebonics" as a separate language of English, so that it is better to meet the population needs of African-American American students who are talking and corrected by teachers who believe it becomes a slang or inappropriate. English. The purpose of the resolution is to familiarize educators with AVE and expand the district bilingual program to make speakers. The decision was filled with a direct counter-attack from politicians - such as Pastor Jesse Jackson, who called the resolution of "unacceptable submission" and "borderlining on disgrace." Less than a month later the Linguistic Society of America unanimously releases a statement that supports the OUSD decision, quoting the systematic nature of Ebonics as a legitimate reason for being recognized as a different ling

China releases new images of Mars taken by its Zhurong rover

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  China Zhurong Rover (Center) explores the surface of Mars. China launched new photos Mars Rover who explored the surface of the red planet on Friday, with government media praising it as a sign of "full success." The Zhurong Rover, named Dewa API in Chinese mythology, landed in the Planitia Utopia Mars area on May 15. This is China's first Mars mission - making it a second country to land explorers on the planet, after the United States. Rover sent back his first picture from Mars in May, a few days after landing, showing the road deployed and the flat landscape where he arrived. This new photo of Friday included a 360-degree panorama in the landing area, sewn together from a number of Rover images after landing before starting to drive through the area, according to the news agency managed by Xinhua. Another picture shows the surface of the orange martang, with scattered stones, a circular crater on the distant side, and the dunes in the distance. Lander Rover feature

Google uses AI to design a processor that runs AI more efficiently

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  Google has a large number of computing hardware Engineers on Google have assigned artificial intelligence by designing processors that are faster and more efficiently - and then use the chip design to develop the next generation of special computers running the same type of AI algorithm. Google operates on a large scale that designs its own computer chip rather than buying commercial products. This allows to optimize the chip to run its own software, but the process takes time and is expensive. A special chip usually takes two to three years to develop. One stage of the chip design is a process called FloorPlanning, which involves taking the final circuit diagram of the new chip and set millions of components into an efficient layout for making. Although the functional design chip is complete at this time, the layout can have a great effect on the speed and power consumption. For chips in smartphones, priority is possible to reduce power consumption to increase battery life, but for

Change your Shopify website into the application today!

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  The eCommerce industry reached new heights over the past few years , the most significant factor behind this is increasing competition. Each business owner competes to provide the best products and services to develop in this era and to attract the potential of millennium. Therefore the perfect way to achieve this is to invest in the development of a solid cellular application. If you are the Shopify store owner and you are in a dilemma or don't have the right guide about changing your shopify store into the application then here we will give you all the insights needed.   First of all let's understand why it is necessary to change the Shopify store into an application. The number of mobile users increases at a fast speed and will increase in the near future. Users prefer to shop using their smartphones because it gives them profits such as tracking orders , personal notifications, and so on. Therefore customers expect enchanting applications and rich features of their favor

Toshiba asks for government assistance to influence the votesal shareholders: probe

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  Toshiba has slid from scandal and loss with recovery in the last few years of AFP / Kazuhiro NOGI Tokyo: Toshiba Japan sought government assistance to try and influence the selection of board space proposed by activist shareholders at the last annual general meeting, according to an independent probe published Thursday (June 10). Troubled industrial conglomerates "develop a plan to effectively prevent shareholders to exercise their shareholders' proposal rights and voting rights to the GMS" in July 2020, the researchers said. The meeting, where the activist shareholder resolution was rejected, "not enough managed", concluded reporting their 140 pages. It also details how Toshiba has pursued intervention from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Japan (Meti), which did not respond to requests for comments. "Toshiba requested Meti's support for what was called the steps to fight activists at the GMS," said the report by three law firms, the Toshiba

Tasmanian Wildlife: Love Another Place on Earth: Australia

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  November 29 2021 - 12 days for AUD $ 10,995 Join conservationists and biologists Nick Mooney for very deep expeditions around reserves, beaches, wetlands, rainforests, national parks and Alpine Tasmania landscapes to find a variety of wildlife, stunning flora and ancient geological features. Hope to see everything from Devil Tasmania, Platypus, small penguins and eastern quoll along with many birds and endemic species. With only 10 places available, all guests will have deep personal experience, in an intimate atmosphere designed to have a low impact on places visited. Travel with expedition vehicles, walking and by boat living in various accommodations from the luxury of 4-star to farms and lodges built in the rainforest. Visit the Hobart capital, Mount Field National Park, Mount Cradle, Maria Island, Eaglehawk Neck and Bruny Island. This tour is ideal for those who have all levels of expertise, because they act as fantastic introduction to flora, fauna, and the amazing geology of

Apple Reviews: The story of a timely pandemic that leads to memory loss

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  Currency courtesy. Located in a world where mysterious diseases have confused doctors, Christos Nikou apple will definitely be labeled on time when aired at the Venice Film Festival 2020 in September. Far from being about Covid-19, though, the pandemic in the apple saw people suddenly lost their memories. After Amnesia attacked, they were included in the recovery program designed to help them re-scrap into the community and build new identities. The protagonist is Aris, played by Aris Servetalis, whose performance becomes more sincere and affects when the story is 90 minutes playing. It was rather reminiscent of the work of the director who was nominated by Oscar Yorgos Lanthimos (which made sense because Nikou had worked with his past compatriots), but apples were much drier than lobster lanthimos and favorites. This makes it a greater challenge for viewers. As a result, apples will not be for everyone - especially during the opening scene, because Nikou combines his slow approach

Smart shifting in the use of these pesticides can make insect populations recover

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World insects in trouble - if we start using pesticides to protect plants rather than killing insects can make a big difference, said Théotime Colin and Andrew B. Barron Michelle d'Urbano. Insects disappear. The world has 25 percent of fewer terrestrial insects now than in 1990. This includes we rely on to pollinate our plants and clean our river. If we don't overcome this problem immediately, some species will disappear. There are many causes of decreasing insects, but insecticides are the main part of the problem. Those used are currently more durable and up to 10,000 times more toxic than some of which are banned in the 1970s. Adding problems is that this pesticide is now applied to prophylactic plants and used whether pests are present or not. Overall, the number of pesticides applied to the soil decreases, but this is very misleading statistics . A recent paper found that, between 2005 and 2015, there was a reduction of 40 percent in the number of pesticides applied to sev