Compost is the decomposed remnants of organic materials (those with plant and animal origins). Compost is used in gardening and agriculture, mixed in with the soil. It improves soil structure, increases the amount of organic matter, and provides nutrients. Decomposition of organic matter is nature's renewal process for recycling simple molecules. Compost is a common name for humus, which is the result of the decomposition of organic matter. Decomposition is performed primarily by microbes, although larger creatures such as worm ...

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• Compost - Decomposers
• Compost - Compost ingredients
• Compost - Composting techniques
• Compost - Microbes and heating the pile
• Compost - Other ingredients
• Compost - Composting systems

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If violent storms occur, have a storm shelter, or have warning devices and an evacuation route. New designs can build a shelter as a concrete-block bathroom, using approved methods. Some coastal cities in California have disasters as often as every two years. These areas have developed powerful techniques for personal preparedness. As in civil preapredness, they combine mitigation, preparation, response and recovery. People have a bag or knapsack filled with gear and attached to their bed. In an earthquake or m ...

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Emergency preparedness, Emergency preparedness - Mitigations, Emergency preparedness - Preparations, Emergency preparedness - Response, Emergency preparedness - Recovery, Emergency preparedness - Personal mitigation, Emergency preparedness - Personal Preparations, Emergency preparedness - Confinement at home, Emergency preparedness - Evacuating

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With the advent of World War II, Waugh used "friends in high places", such as Randolph Churchill - son of Winston - to find him a service commission. Though thirty-six years of age with poor eyesight, he was commissioned in the Royal Marines in 1940. Few can have been less suited to command troops. He lacked a common touch. Though personally brave, he did not suffer fools gladly. There was some concern that the men under his command might shoot him instead of the enemy. Promoted to C ...

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Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Waugh - Early Life, Evelyn Waugh - The Thirties, Evelyn Waugh - World War II, Evelyn Waugh - Later Years, Evelyn Waugh - List of Works, Evelyn Waugh - Novels, Evelyn Waugh - Biography, Evelyn Waugh - Autobiography

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Smoke is a suspension in air (aerosol) of small particles resulting from incomplete combustion of a fuel. It is commonly an unwanted by-product of fires (including stoves and lamps) and fireplaces, but may also be used for pest control (cf. fumigation), communication (smoke signals), defence (smoke-screen) or inhalation of tobacco or other drugs. Smoke is also sometimes a component of internal combustion engi ...

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• Smoke - Visible and invisible particles of combustion

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A hat is an item of clothing which is worn on the head – a kind of headgear. Hats are differentiated from caps by being more elaborate; hats have a high crown, a brim, or both and are larger than caps. A hat may be either placed on the head or, in the case of some women's hats, secured with hat-pins (which are pushed through the hat and the hair). Many hats are intended only for men or for women, while other hats are fashionable on both sexes. Purveyors of men's hats are called hatters and purveyors of ladies' hats are called millin ...

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• Hat - Physical attributes
• Hat - Parts of a hat
• Hat - Maintenance
• Hat - Major hat styles
• Hat - Types of hats

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An ingredient used in many foods, flour is a fine powder made from cereals or other starchy food sources. It is most commonly made from wheat, but also maize (aka corn), rye, barley and rice, amongst many other grasses and non-grain plants (including many Australian species of acacia). Flour is the key ingredient of bread, which is the staple food in many countries, and therefore the availability of adequate supplies of flour has often been a major economic and political issue. Flour can also be made from legumes and nuts, such as soy, peanuts, almonds, and other tree nuts. Flour is always based on the presence o ...

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• Flour - Types of flour
• Flour - Wheat flour
• Flour - Other flours
• Flour - Flour type numbers
• Flour - Flour production
• Flour - History
• Flour - Flour products

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List of DC Comics characters - 0-9. 711 List of DC Comics characters - A. Abattoir Abel Abin Sur Able Crown Abra Kadabra Access (Amalgam Comics) Ace Ace of Clubs Ace of Spades Ace the Bathound Acidia Acro-Bat Adam Admiral Storm Advance Man Aegeus Aerialist Agent Orange Airstryke Air-W ...

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List of DC Comics characters, List of DC Comics characters - List of characters, List of DC Comics characters - 0-9, List of DC Comics characters - A, List of DC Comics characters - B, List of DC Comics characters - C, List of DC Comics characters - D, List of DC Comics characters - E, List of DC Comics characters - F, List of DC Comics characters - G, List of DC Comics characters - H, List of DC Comics characters - I, List of DC Comics characters - J, List of DC Comics characters - K, List of DC Comics characters - L, List of DC Comics characters - M, List of DC Comics characters - N, List of DC Comics characters - O, List of DC Comics characters - P, List of DC Comics characters - Q, List of DC Comics characters - R, List of DC Comics characters - S, List of DC Comics characters - T, List of DC Comics characters - U, List of DC Comics characters - V, List of DC Comics characters - W, List of DC Comics characters - X, List of DC Comics characters - Y, List of DC Comics characters - Z, List of DC Comics characters - List of teams and organizations, List of DC Comics characters - List of alien races

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An allergen is any substance (antigen), most often eaten or inhaled, that is recognized by the immune system and causes an allergic reaction. No comprehensive list of allergens is possible, because sensitivities vary from one person to another and it is possible to be allergic to literally anything. Dust, pollen and pet dander are all common allergens, but it is possible to be allergic to anything from chlorine to perfume. Food allergies are not as common as food sensitivity, but some foods such as peanuts (really a legu ...

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Some aerosols occur naturally, originating from volcanoes, dust storms, forest and grassland fires, living vegetation, and sea spray. Human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels also generate aerosols. Averaged over the globe, anthropogenic aerosols—those made by human activities—currently account for about 10 percent of the total amount of aerosols in our atmosphere. Particulate - Sources. There are both natural and human sources of atmospheric particulates. The biggest natural source ...

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Particulate, Particulate - Atmospheric aerosols, Particulate - Sources, Particulate - Composition, Particulate - Removal Processes, Particulate - Radiative forcing from aerosols, Particulate - Sulfate aerosol, Particulate - Black carbon, Particulate - Health effects, Particulate - EU legislation

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Some religions believe that the Bible was inspired or received in singular events. Many historians who have analysed the Hebrew Bible and New Testament believe they were written over a long period of time. In addition, various religions assign varying degrees of inerrancy to these Scriptures. Because of this, inconsistencies alleged to be found within the Bible take on an importance in ecumenical and apologetic discussions. Those believing in Scriptural inerrancy sometimes refer to these issues as "difficulties"; some believe th ...

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• Inconsistencies in the Bible - Difficulties in evaluating inconsistencies
• Inconsistencies in the Bible - Within the Torah
• Inconsistencies in the Bible - Within the Deuteronomic History
• Inconsistencies in the Bible - Chronicles and the Deuteronomic History
• Inconsistencies in the Bible - Names of God
• Inconsistencies in the Bible - Amongst the Gospels
• Inconsistencies in the Bible - The Pauline Epistles
• Inconsistencies in the Bible - Between the New Testament and the Old

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Genesis - Creation. Main article: Creation (theology); Creation according to Genesis The creation narrative in genesis can be split into two sections - the first section starts with an account of the Creation of the universe by God, which occurs in six days, the second section is more human-oriented, and less concerned with explaining how the Earth, its creatures and its featur ...

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Genesis, Genesis - Introduction, Genesis - Authorship, Genesis - Historical placement of its content, Genesis - Christian views, Genesis - Main themes, Genesis - Summary, Genesis - Creation, Genesis - Adam and Eve, Genesis - Noah and the great flood, Genesis - Abram and Sarai, Genesis - Abram and Melchizedek, Genesis - Hagar and Ishmael, Genesis - Sodom and Gomorrah, Genesis - The birth of Isaac, Genesis - The near sacrifice of Isaac, Genesis - Esau and Jacob, Genesis - Jacob wrestles with God, Genesis - Joseph the dreamer

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The soul, according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is the ethereal substance — spirit (Hebrew:rooah or nefesh) — particular to a unique living being. Such traditions often consider the soul both immortal and innately aware of its immortal nature, as well as the true basis for sentience in each living being. The concept of the soul has strong links with notions of an afterlife, but opinions may vary wildly, even within a given religion, as to what happens to the soul after death. Many wi ...

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• Soul - Etymologies
• Soul - Philosophical views
• Soul - Socrates and Plato
• Soul - Aristotle
• Soul - Religious views
• Soul - Bahá'í beliefs
• Soul - Buddhist beliefs
• Soul - Christian beliefs
• Soul - Hindu beliefs
• Soul - Islamic beliefs
• Soul - Jainist beliefs
• Soul - Jewish beliefs
• Soul - Other religious beliefs and views
• Soul - Science and the soul
• Soul - Materialistic Science and the Soul
• Soul - Scientific approaches for study of a non-material soul
• Soul - Other uses of the term
• Soul - Movie
• Soul - External references and links

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Sterling is, along with William Gibson, Tom Maddox, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, Lewis Shiner and Pat Cadigan, one of the founders of the cyberpunk movement in science fiction, as well as its chief ideological promulgator, and one whose polemics on the topic earned him the nickname "Chairman Bruce". He is also one of the first organizers of Turkey City Writer's Workshop. He won Hugo Awards for the novelette "Bicy ...

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Bruce Sterling, Bruce Sterling - Writings, Bruce Sterling - Novels, Bruce Sterling - Short Story collections and stories they contain, Bruce Sterling - Non-fiction

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Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event - Alvarez hypothesis. In 1980, a team of researchers led by Nobel-prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez, his son, geologist Walter Alvarez, and a group of colleagues discovered that fossilized sedimentary layers found all over the world at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, 65.5 million years ago contain a concentration of iridium hundreds of times greater than normal. The end of the Cretaceous coincided with the end of the dinosaurs. It was in general a period of extraordinary ...

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Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event, Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event - Casualties of the extinction, Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event - Theories, Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event - Alvarez hypothesis, Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event - Chicxulub crater, Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event - Deccan traps, Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event - Multiple impact event, Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event - Supernova hypothesis, Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event - Further skepticism, Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event - Other mass extinctions

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A halo (also known as a nimbus or Gloriole) is a ring of light that surrounds an object. They are often used in religious works to depict holy or sacred figures. In Christian sacred art (Eastern and Western churches), holy persons (saints) are depicted with a halo, a golden, yellow or white circular glow, around the head. Halos, also known as icebows, are also optical phenomena that appear near or around the Sun or Moon, and sometimes near other strong light sources such as street lights. There are many types of o ...

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• Halo - Religious iconography
• Halo - In Christianity
• Halo - In Buddhism
• Halo - Spiritual Significance of the Halo
• Halo - Optical phenomenon
• Halo - Sundogs
• Halo - Sun pillar

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The orchid ovary is always inferior (located behind the flower), three-carpelate and 1 or 3-partitioned, with parietal placentation (but axile in the Apostasioideae). If pollination was successful, the sepals and petals decolorize and wilt. But they remain attached to the ovary. The epigynous ovary typically develops into a capsule that is dehiscent by 3 or 6 longitudinal slits, while remaining closed at both ends. The ripening of a capsule can take from 2 to 18 months. The microscopic seeds are very numerous (over a million per capsu ...

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Orchidaceae, Orchidaceae - General description, Orchidaceae - Leaves, Orchidaceae - Stem, Orchidaceae - Plant thallus and roots, Orchidaceae - Orchid flowers, Orchidaceae - Reproduction, Orchidaceae - Fruits and seeds, Orchidaceae - Orchids in commerce, Orchidaceae - Taxonomy, Orchidaceae - Reference

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A pillow is designed to provide both support and comfort to the area of the body resting upon it. The design of each pillow reflects the type of support that it is intended to provide. Body pillows are as long as a full adult body, providing support to the head and neck at the top and to the knees and legs lower down. This type of pillow can be especially useful in providing support for those who sleep on their sides and for pregnant women. Neck pillows support the neck by providing a deep area ...

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Pillow, Pillow - Pillow construction and parts, Pillow - Types of pillows, Pillow - History, Pillow - Modern pillow sizes

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The most detailed collections of personal reports in favor of reincarnation have been published by Dr. Ian Stevenson in works such as Reincarnation and Biology: A Contribution to the Etiology of Birthmarks and Birth Defects, which documents thousands of detailed cases where claims of injuries received in past lives sometimes correlate with atyptical physical birthmarks or birth defects. Perhaps the most significant anecdotal evidence in this regard is the phenomenon of young children spontaneously sharing what appear to be memo ...

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Reincarnation, Reincarnation - Overview, Reincarnation - Reincarnation in various religions traditions and philosophies, Reincarnation - Eastern religions and traditions, Reincarnation - Western religions and traditions, Reincarnation - Contemporary movements and thinkers, Reincarnation - Common variations in the belief, Reincarnation - Reincarnation Research, Reincarnation - Objections to reincarnation, Reincarnation - Theories put forward to explain the phenomenon, Reincarnation - A theory of reincarnation

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The opponent is seated on the top rope. The wrestler turns his back to him and grabs hold of the opponent's arms from below, right at the arm pits. He then throws the opponent forward while sitting down, flipping them over in midair, and slamming them down to the mat back first. Notable users include CIMA, who also uses a cross-arm variation called the Goriconoclasm. Christopher Daniels also uses a cross-arm variation (the "Fall from Grace"). ...

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Professional wrestling aerial techniques, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Arm twist ropewalk chop, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Axe handle, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Banzai drop, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Crossbody, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Diamond Dust, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Diving bulldog, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Springboard bulldog, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Diving elbow drop, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Axe handle elbow drop, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Diving back elbow drop, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Shooting star elbow drop, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Diving stomp, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Diving double foot stomp, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Mushroom stomp, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Moonsault double foot stomp, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Diving fist drop, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Diving headbutt, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Diving hurricanrana, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Dragonrana, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Springboard hurricanrana, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Diving knee drop, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Calf branding, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Diving leg drop, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Moonsault leg drop, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Diving leg drop bulldog, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Somersault corkscrew leg drop, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Somersault legdrop, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Shooting star legdrop, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Springboard legdrop, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Diving shoulder block, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Diving spear, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Flying clothesline, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Flying back elbow, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Flying neckbreaker, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Flying spinning heel kick, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Flying thrust kick, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Shooting star piledriver, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Sunset flip, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Frankensteiner, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Iconoclasm, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Moonsault, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Moonsault slam, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Missile dropkick, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Plancha, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Senton, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - 630 senton, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Corkscrew 630 senton, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Seated senton, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Molly-go-round, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Senton bomb, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Corkscrew senton, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Imploding senton bomb, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Shiranui, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Splash, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - 450 splash, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Corner slingshot splash, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Frog splash, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Split legged splash, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Shooting star press, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Transition move, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Grounding, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Springboard, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Slingshot, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Shooting star, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Modifiers, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Standing, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Super, Professional wrestling aerial techniques - Suicide

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If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings... It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence.. ...

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Cthulhu, Cthulhu - Cthulhu in the mythos, Cthulhu - Cthulhu in Derleth's mythos, Cthulhu - Cthulhu cult, Cthulhu - Cthulhu's rival, Cthulhu - Cthulhu's family tree, Cthulhu - Idh-yaa, Cthulhu - Star-spawn of Cthulhu, Cthulhu - References to Cthulhu, Cthulhu - Literary references, Cthulhu - Music references, Cthulhu - Role-playing games, Cthulhu - Video games, Cthulhu - Television, Cthulhu - Film and other media, Cthulhu - Parodies of Cthulhu

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Rain is a form of precipitation, other forms of which include snow, sleet, hail, and dew. Rain forms when separate drops of water fall to the Earth's surface from clouds. Not all rain reaches the surface, however; some evaporates while falling through dry air. When none of it reaches the ground, it is a precipitation called virga. Rain - Rain in nature. Rain plays a major role in the hydrologic cycle in which moisture from the oceans evaporates, condenses into clouds, precipitates back to earth, and ...

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• Rain - Rain in nature
• Rain - Culture

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Violin - Making. The traditional approach starts with a set of plans, which include a drawing of the outer shape of the instrument. The outer contour is designed by the violin maker, and today the outlines of the old masters' violins are usually used. From these plans a template is constructed, which can be made from thin metal or other materials, and is a flat "half-violin" shape. The template is used to construct a mould, which is a thick violin-shaped piece of wood with notch ...

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Violin, Violin - Violin construction and mechanics, Violin - Construction, Violin - Strings, Violin - Acoustics, Violin - Sizes, Violin - Playing the violin, Violin - Left Hand & Producing Pitch, Violin - Positions, Violin - Right Hand & Tone Colour, Violin - Tuning, Violin - Making and maintenance, Violin - Making, Violin - Maintenance, Violin - History, Violin - Musical styles, Violin - Jazz, Violin - Classical music, Violin - Popular music, Violin - Folk music and fiddling

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