Burning Man is a week-long festival with international draw, held annually on the week prior to and including Labor Day weekend (in early September) in the United States. Its current location is on the playa of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, at 40°45′17″N, 119°14′11″W or 90 miles north-northeast of Reno. The temporary city (housing 36,500 residents in 2005) is put forth as an experiment in community, radical self-expression, and radical self-re ...

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• Burning Man - History
• Burning Man - Timeline
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Black Rock City, often abbreviated to BRC, is the name of the temporary urban phenomenon created by Burning Man. The city is arranged as two thirds of a 1.5 mile (2.4 km) diameter circle (resembling the layout of Poverty Point) with the Burning Man complex at the very center. Avenues extend radially from the Man to the outermost circle. In most years, these avenues are given a clock name (e.g., "3:00"), presenting the city as a clock in which the Man is the center of the clock. Occasionally, the avenues have been identified as the degrees of ...

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An intelligence quotient or IQ is a score derived from a set of standardized tests developed to measure a person's cognitive abilities ("intelligence") in relation to their age group. An IQ test does not measure intelligence the way a ruler measures height (absolutely), but rather the way a race measures speed (relatively). For people living in the prevailing conditions of the developed world, IQ is highly heritable, and by adulthood the influence of family environment on IQ is undetectable. IQ test scores are correlated with measures of brain structure and function, as well as performance on ...

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• Intelligence quotient - Practical validity
• Intelligence quotient - Validity and g-loading of specific tests
• Intelligence quotient - Social construct?
• Intelligence quotient - The Mismeasure of Man
• Intelligence quotient - The view of the American Psychological Association
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A wireless LAN or WLAN is a wireless local area network that uses radio waves as its carrier: the last link with the users is wireless, to give a network connection to all users in the surrounding area. Areas may range from a single room to an entire campus. The backbone network usually uses cables, with one or more wireless access points connecting the wireless users to the wired network. WLAN is expected to continue to be an important form of connection in many business areas. The market is expected to grow as the bene ...

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Andrology (from the Greek andros, man) is the medical specialty that deals with male health, particularly relating to the problems of the male reproductive system and urological problems that are unique to men. Gynaecology deals with medical issues which are specific to women. Men are more susceptible to heart disease than women, and tend to have a slightly shorter natural average life span. However, men are more resistant to many conditions th ...

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Alcoholism is a dependency on alcoholic beverages characterized by craving (a strong need to drink), loss of control (being unable to stop drinking despite a desire to do so), physical dependence, tolerance (increasing difficulty in becoming drunk), and withdrawal symptoms. It can also be described as an addiction to alcoholic beverages that results in a consumption of alcohol in circumstances that damage one's ability to pursue one's other desires. Alcoholism - Biological mechanism. The consumption of alco ...

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The popularity of Burning Man has encouraged other groups and organizations to hold festivals similar to Burning Man, such as Fuego de los Muertos in San Diego, Playa del Fuego , Burning Flipside in Texas, or the July weekend-long Phoenix Festival in Washington. And in recent years, burners wishing to experience Burning Man more frequently than once per year have banded together to create local regional events. These events are typically much smaller than Burning Man itself, often consisting of no more than a few hundred participants. Some o ...

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Burning Man, Burning Man - Primary focus of the festival, Burning Man - Black Rock City, Burning Man - Center Camp, Burning Man - Theme camps and villages, Burning Man - Policing, Burning Man - Transport around festival, Burning Man - Burners, Burning Man - Health and safety, Burning Man - History, Burning Man - Timeline, Burning Man - Regional events, Burning Man - Burning Man on screen

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Burning Man participants often call themselves "burners." Although this usage may vary with region, a burner is an annual denizen of Black Rock City, and anyone who embraces Burning Man as an expression in sync with their own identity is a burner. In general, the term's use is only practical in contexts outside of the event itself. A burner is usually someone who has been to the event and aspires to return, even if only in spirit. The concept also implies the sentiments and values inspired by the event itself, including a high regard for cre ...

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The annual event now known as Burning Man began on the summer solstice in 1986 when Larry Harvey, Jerry James, and a few friends met on Baker Beach in San Francisco and burned an eight foot tall wooden man as well as a smaller wooden dog. The inspiration for burning these effigy figures has been shrouded in mystery by Harvey, who described it as "a spontaneous act of radical self-expression." However, sculptor Mary Grauberger, a friend of Harvey's girlfriend Janet Lohr, had held spontaneous art-party gatherings on Baker Beach on or about the ...

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Participation. Burning Man is held to be a "spectator-free" zone—i.e., only participants are allowed. As such, all attendees are ostensibly expected to contribute to the community, but the nature of this participation is left up to each individual, and in reality a large number of spectators are present with cameras in hand. Leave No Trace, an ecological concept. Burning Man takes place in the middle of a normally uninhabited desert environment known as a playa, which is deep in the middle of a large, prehistoric dry l ...

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Once participants have arrived in Black Rock City, they are expected to leave their cars or other motor vehicles parked and travel around the city under their own power. Cars should only be used in an emergency, or when leaving or entering the city. Law enforcement officials and the Black Rock Rangers will stop vehicles and law enforcement officials may give you a ticket. Bicycles are de rigueur for most BRC citizens. The alkali dust of the playa causes severe damage to bikes, so many attendees bring a bicycle of little ...

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Kent - Man of Kent or Kentish Man?. Kent is traditionally divided into West Kent and East Kent by the River Medway. This division into east and west is also reflected in the term Men of Kent for residents east of the Medway; those from west are known as Kentish Men. However, further investigation shows that the division is not the Medway, but further east in Gillingham. Edward Hasted, in his 1798 description of Rainham, writes: "The whole of this parish is in the division of East Kent which begins here, the adjoining parish of Gillingham, w ...

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Although exposure to ionizing radiation carries a risk, it is impossible to completely avoid exposure. Radiation has always been present in the environment and in our bodies. We can, however, avoid undue exposure. Although people cannot sense ionizing radiation, there is a range of simple, sensitive instruments capable of detecting minute amounts of radiation from natural and man-made sources. Dosimeters measure an absolute dose received over a period of time. Ion-chamber dosimeters resemble pens, and can be clipped to one's cl ...

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Intelligence quotient - Race and IQ. Main article: Race and intelligence While the distributions of IQ scores among different racial-ethnic groups overlap considerably, groups differ in where their members cluster along the IQ scale. Some groups (e.g. East Asians and Jews) tend to cluster higher than whites, while other groups (e.g. blacks and Hispanics) tend to cluster lower than whites. Similar clustering occurs with related variables, such as school achievement, reaction time, and brain size. Man ...

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Hong Kong respects religious freedom. Many notable churches are in the area, even though Christians only make up about 10% of the population. Man Mo temple is a popular site of worship that has been important to Hong Kong culture for centuries. Mid-levels - Roman Catholic Cathedral. Mid-levels - Man Mo Temple. Man Mo Temple, as one of the traditional temples in Hong Kong, is another popular tourist spot. Inside Man Mo Temple the Taoist Gods of Literature (Man)with his calligrap ...

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Mid-levels, Mid-levels - Location, Mid-levels - Special characteristics of the Mid-levels, Mid-levels - Famous streets, Mid-levels - Hollywood Road, Mid-levels - Lascar Row, Mid-levels - The Central-Mid-levels Escalator, Mid-levels - Others, Mid-levels - Food and drinks, Mid-levels - Lan Kwai Fong, Mid-levels - Soho, Mid-levels - Recreation, Mid-levels - Hong Kong Park, Mid-levels - The Peak, Mid-levels - Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens, Mid-levels - Lung Fu Shan Country Park, Mid-levels - Wan Tsai Nature Trail, Mid-levels - Jockey Club Mt. Davis Youth Hostel, Mid-levels - Art and culture, Mid-levels - The Flagstaff House Museum, Mid-levels - Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Mid-levels - The Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, Mid-levels - Central Police Station, Mid-levels - The University Museum and Art Gallery The University of Hong Kong UMAG, Mid-levels - Education, Mid-levels - The Main Building of the University of Hong Kong, Mid-levels - Hung Hing Ying Building The University of Hong Kong, Mid-levels - Old Hall The University of Hong Kong, Mid-levels - St. Paul's Co-educational College, Mid-levels - King's College, Mid-levels - Religion, Mid-levels - Roman Catholic Cathedral, Mid-levels - Man Mo Temple, Mid-levels - Union Church Hong Kong, Mid-levels - Hop Yat Church, Mid-levels - Health Care, Mid-levels - The Hong Kong Central Hospital

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Intelligence quotient - Sex and IQ. Main article: Sex and intelligence Most IQ tests are designed so that the average IQs of males and females are equal. However, men tend to score their highest in the parts of the test that cover spatial and quantitative abilities, and women generally score their highest in the verbal sections. Some research has indicated that the variance in men's IQ scores is greater than the variance among women's, as seen in other cognitive test scores. This would mean that men are more likely than women to have both very high and very low IQs. < ...

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When the County of London and London County Council were created in 1888, the new county incorporated a considerable part of north west Kent including Deptford, Greenwich, Woolwich and Lewisham. Further change came in 1965, when the London County Council was abolished and the Greater London Council took its place. The places that had been removed in 1888 were amalgamated to form the London Borough of Lewisham and the London Borough of Greenwich and two further boroughs were created. These were the London Borough of Bromley — an amal ...

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The area has been occupied since the Lower Palaeolithic as finds from the quarries at Swanscombe attest. During the Neolithic the Medway megaliths were built and there is a rich sequence of Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman occupation indicated by finds and features such as the Ringlemere gold cup and the Roman villas of the Darent valley. The modern name Kent is derived from the Brythonic word Cantus meaning a rim or border, being applied as a name to the eastern part of the modern county, and meaning border land or coas ...

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Kent - Physical geography. Kent is the southeasternmost county in England. It is bounded on the north by the River Thames and the North Sea, and on the south by the Straits of Dover and the English Channel. The continent of Europe is a mere 21 miles across the Strait. The major geographical features of the county are determined by a series of ridges running from west to east across the county. These ridges are the remains of the Wealden dome, which was the result of uplifting caused by the Alpine movement ...

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