CA, Ca, cA, or ca may stand for: Canada, ISO 3166, FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO digram (CA) .ca is also the ccTLD for Canada Air China, IATA airline designator (CA) C&A stores Calcium, symbol for the chemical element (Ca) California, United States, postal code (CA) Cancer/Carcinoma Carlisle, the United Kingdom postcode for the region in north-western England served by the Carlisle postal sorting office Catalan l

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WXSP is known for its coverage of sports in both the Grand Rapids and Detroit areas. The station carries feeds of the Detroit Lions and the University of Michigan Wolverines and Michigan State University Spartans basketball teams from WKBD in Detroit, as well as the Detroit Pistons from WDWB, another Detroit station (see below). In addition, the station provides local coverage of certain Grand Rapids Griffins, Grand Rapids Rampage, Western Michigan University Broncos basketball and football, and West M ...

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WXSP-CA, WXSP-CA - News, WXSP-CA - Weather, WXSP-CA - Sports, WXSP-CA - The CW

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Bois Caïman is the site of the voodoo ceremony presided over by Dutty Boukman on August 14, 1791. It is widely accepted as the starting point for the Haitian Revolution. Some scholars, however, have deemphasized the role of the Bois Caïman ceremony in sparking the Haitian revolution or have even gone so far as to question whether the event even took place. Whatever the ultimate disposition of these claims, no one can deny that the historical memory Bois Caïman has political and spirit ...

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• Bois Caïman - Sources

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CAS registry numbers are unique numerical identifiers for chemical compounds, polymers, biological sequences, mixtures and alloys. They are also referred to as CAS numbers, CAS RNs or CAS #s. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, assigns these identifiers to every chemical that has been described in the literature. The intention is to make database searches more convenient, as chemicals often have many names. Almost a ...

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• CAS registry number - Isomers enzymes and mixtures
• CAS registry number - Searches

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USS Indianapolis (CA-35) was a Portland-class heavy cruiser of the United States Navy. She holds a place in history due to the notorious circumstances of her demise, which was the worst single at-sea loss of life in the history of the United States Navy. After delivering the first atomic bomb to be used in combat to the United States air base at Tinian Island on 26 July 1945, she was in the Philippine Sea when attacked at 00:14 on 30 July 1945, by a Japanese submarine. Most of the crew was lost to shark attacks, as they ...

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• USS Indianapolis CA-35 - Service before World War II
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• USS Indianapolis CA-35 - South Pacific
• USS Indianapolis CA-35 - Kiska and Attu
• USS Indianapolis CA-35 - Flagship of the 5th Fleet
• USS Indianapolis CA-35 - Iwo Jima
• USS Indianapolis CA-35 - Okinawa
• USS Indianapolis CA-35 - Loss of the Indianapolis
• USS Indianapolis CA-35 - A secret mission and destruction
• USS Indianapolis CA-35 - Delayed rescue: Five days of horror in the water
• USS Indianapolis CA-35 - Captain Charles Butler McVay III
• USS Indianapolis CA-35 - The story in Hollywood

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The Beaker culture (also Bell-Beaker culture, Beaker people, or Beaker folk, German Glockenbecherkultur), ca. 2600 — 1900 BC, is the term for a widely but spottily scattered archaeological culture of prehistoric western Europe starting in the late Neolithic (stone age) running into the early bronze age. Beaker culture - Extent. Its remains have been found in what is now Portugal, Spain, France (excluding the central massif), Great Britain and Ireland, the Low Countries, and Ger ...

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• Beaker culture - Extent
• Beaker culture - Pottery
• Beaker culture - Origin
• Beaker culture - Interpretation
• Beaker culture - Sources

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The history of Yoga spans from four to eight thousand years ago to the current day. From hints of it's practice in pre-vedic times, the first elucidations and detailed elaborations in Hindu texts, absorption into Buddhist and Jain philisophies, upto it's modern suffusion into secular life, it's applicability has stood the test of time. History of Yoga - Pre-Vedic ca. 6000 - 3000 BCE [?]. Older findings are believed by some to show that "yoga" existed in some form well before the establishment of vedas in the India ...

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• History of Yoga - Pre-Vedic ca. 6000 - 3000 BCE [?]
• History of Yoga - Vedic ca. 2000-1500 BCE
• History of Yoga - Upanishadic ca. 800-100 BCE
• History of Yoga - Bhagavad Gita
• History of Yoga - Classical - Patanjali's 'Yoga Sutras' ca. 200 CE
• History of Yoga - Yoga-bhasya 450 - 850 CE
• History of Yoga - Hatha Yoga Pradipika 1350 - 1400 CE
• History of Yoga - Today
• History of Yoga - Modern growth of yoga in the West

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Chartered accountant (CA) is a brand originated from British Royal Charter and widely spread in British Commonwealth since its inception in 19th century. The standard for UK CAs is said to be equivalent to a British degree. In the accounting profession, there is no competitive league table similar to Master of Business Administration. As such, no accounting body can ethically claim to be the best in the world or equivalent to an MBA in the absence of a fair comparison. For non-British nations, Certified Public Accountant brands ...

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• Chartered accountant - CA in United Kingdom
• Chartered accountant - EU accountants
• Chartered accountant - Canadian accounting bodies
• Chartered accountant - South Africa
• Chartered accountant - India

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Complex adaptive systems, are a special case of complex systems. They are complex in that they are diverse and made up of multiple interconnected elements and adaptive in that they have the capacity to change and learn from experience. The term complex adaptive systems was coined at the interdisciplinary Santa Fe Institute (SFI), by John H. Holland, Murray Gell-Mann and others. John H. Holland is one of the inventors of evolutionary computation and genetic algor ...

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• Complex adaptive systems - Definitions
• Complex adaptive systems - Properties of CAS
• Complex adaptive systems - Graphic
• Complex adaptive systems - Researchers and scientists

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Gurkha, also spelt as Gorkha, are people from Nepal who take their name from the eighth century Hindu warrior-saint Guru Gorakhnath. His disciple Bappa Rawal, born Prince Kalbhoj, founded the house of Mewar. Later descendants of Bappa Rawal moved further east to found the house of Gorkha, which in turn founded the Kingdom of Nepal. Gurkhas are most well-known for their history of service as foreign sold ...

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• Gurkha - History
• Gurkha - East India Company army
• Gurkha - British Indian Army
• Gurkha - Gurkha military rank system in the British Indian Army
• Gurkha - Gurkha Rifle Regiments ca.1800-1946
• Gurkha - Post independence
• Gurkha - British Army Gurkhas
• Gurkha - Indian Army Gorkhas
• Gurkha - Singapore Gurkhas Contingent
• Gurkha - Other

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A Wireworld cell can be in one of four different states: Empty `Conductor' `Electron head' `Electron tail' Time proceeds in discrete steps called `generations'. An empty cell will always remain empty; other cells behave as follows: Electron head -> electron tail Electron tail -> conductor Conductor -> electron head if exactly one or two of the neighbouring cells are electron heads Using just these simple ...

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Wireworld CA, Wireworld CA - Rules, Wireworld CA - Computer programs featuring Wireworld

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In its current form, Academia Caţavencu was founded in 1991, by a team of humourists, investigators, and literates headed by poet and former dissident Mircea Dinescu. Part of the team had previously edited two short-lived satirical papers, Caţavencu incomod and Caţavencu internaţional. Dinescu was editor-in-chief until 1998, when he resigned and went on to create his own publications, Aspirina săracului (The poor man's aspirin - a joking reference to sexual intercourse), and Plai cu boi, a monthly satirical ...

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Academia Caţavencu, Academia Caţavencu - History, Academia Caţavencu - Current activities, Academia Caţavencu - Name

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Cañon City is located at 38°26'48" North, 105°13'42" West (38.446800, -105.228305)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 31.2 km² (12.0 mi²). 31.1 km² (12.0 mi²) of it is land and 0.08% is water. ...

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As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there are 15,431 people, 6,164 households, and 3,803 families residing in the city. The population density is 495.7/km² (1,284.1/mi²). There are 6,617 housing units at an average density of 212.5/km² (550.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 93.15% White, 1.59% African American, 1.04% Native American, 0.54% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 1.61% from other races, and 2.01% from two or more races. 8.33% ...

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Academia Caţavencu have been long-time press freedom advocates. They maintain a "press monitoring agency", a watchdog against manipulation through mass-media. During the 2004 election campaign, Academia Caţavencu published as supplements two parody issues of Scânteia (the old-time Communist Party newspaper), containing reprints of articles written by important current day politicians during the Communist era. Almost 40,000 copies were bought in bulk from newsagents, [1] along with other newspapers [2]. The alleged perpetrato ...

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La Cañada Flintridge is located at 34°12'22" North, 118°11'58" West (34.206047, -118.199499)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 22.4 km² (8.6 mi²). 22.4 km² (8.6 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water. La Cañada Flintridge is situated in the eastern end of the Crescenta Valley. It is nestled between the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and the San Rafael Hills, below the Angeles National Forest. La Cañada ...

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La Cañada Flintridge California, La Cañada Flintridge California - Geography, La Cañada Flintridge California - History, La Cañada Flintridge California - Demographics, La Cañada Flintridge California - Education, La Cañada Flintridge California - Community organizations, La Cañada Flintridge California - Points of interest, La Cañada Flintridge California - External link

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During the Spanish era, the area was known as Rancho La Cañada, or the Ranch of the Gorge. The area used to be two unincorporated communities (La Cañada and Flintridge) until they incorporated in 1976, out of the unincorporated Los Angeles County land. The city name specifically does not have a hyphen in it, to illustrate unity between the communities that were once separately known as La Cañada and Flintridge. ...

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La Cañada Flintridge California, La Cañada Flintridge California - Geography, La Cañada Flintridge California - History, La Cañada Flintridge California - Demographics, La Cañada Flintridge California - Education, La Cañada Flintridge California - Community organizations, La Cañada Flintridge California - Points of interest, La Cañada Flintridge California - External link

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There are at least five evolutionarily distinct CA families (α, β, γ, δ and ε). These families have no significant sequence identity and are thought to exemplify convergent evolution. Carbonic anhydrase - α-CA. The CA enzymes found in mammals are divided into four broad subgroups: the cytosolic CAs (CA-I, CA-II, CA-III, CA-VII and CA XIII) mitochondrial CAs (CA-VA and CA-VB) secreted CAs (CA-VI) membrane-associated CAs (CA-IV, CA-IX, CA-XII and CA-XIV)

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Carbonic anhydrase, Carbonic anhydrase - CA families, Carbonic anhydrase - α-CA, Carbonic anhydrase - β-CA, Carbonic anhydrase - γ-CA, Carbonic anhydrase - External link

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Steaming via the "Great Circle" route (the Northern Pacific) from Seattle to Shanghai, Augusta moored in the Whangpoo River, at Shanghai, on the morning of 9 November 1933. That afternoon, Admiral Frank B. Upham, Commander in Chief, Asiatic Fleet (CinCAF), broke his flag on board the newly arrived cruiser, and his old flagship, Houston (CA-30), sailed for the United States. Soon after she broke Admiral Upham's flag and Houston sailed for home, Augusta proceeded south from Shanghai in December 1933, and, over the next few months, operated in the Philippines, interspersing traini ...

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USS Augusta CA-31, USS Augusta CA-31 - Beginnings, USS Augusta CA-31 - Asiatic Fleet, USS Augusta CA-31 - Refit, USS Augusta CA-31 - Atlantic Fleet, USS Augusta CA-31 - Morocco, USS Augusta CA-31 - Normandy, USS Augusta CA-31 - Sources

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