Reefs comprise some of the densest and most diverse habitats in the world. The best-known types of reefs are tropical coral reefs which exist in most tropical waters; however, reefs can also exist in cold water. Reefs are built up by corals and other calcium-depositing animals, usually on top of a rocky outcrop on the ocean floor. Reefs can also grow on other surfaces, which has made it possible to create artificial reefs. Coral reefs also support a huge community of life, including the corals themselves, their symbiotic zooxanthellae, ...

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Marine biology, Marine biology - Overview, Marine biology - Subfields, Marine biology - Related fields, Marine biology - Lifeforms, Marine biology - Microscopic life, Marine biology - Plant life, Marine biology - Other sea life, Marine biology - Fish, Marine biology - Marine mammals, Marine biology - Reefs, Marine biology - Deep sea and trenches, Marine biology - How oceanic factors affect distribution of various organisms, Marine biology - Famous marine biologists

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The entire basin drained by the stream is termed the watershed. Every watershed is made up of smaller watersheds, while most watersheds are parts of larger watersheds. For instance, the Continental Divide in North America divides the Atlantic Ocean watershed from the Pacific Ocean watershed, but the Atlantic Ocean watershed may be first divided into the Atlantic Ocean drainage and the Gulf of Mexico drainage. This delineation within the United States is termed the Eastern Continental Divide. The Gulf of Mexico watershed may be divided into Mississippi River basin and a number of smaller watersheds, s ...

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Stream, Stream - Types of water streams, Stream - Other names for streams, Stream - Parts of a stream, Stream - Characteristics of streams, Stream - Intermittent and ephemeral streams, Stream - Watersheds

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Sankara's views on advaita are best encapsulated in the classic line from his Brahma-Sutra Bhasya: "Brahma satyam jagat mithya, Jiva brahmaiva naparah - the Brahma alone is real, the world illusory, the individual and universal soul are one."

Using everyday references to illustrate advaitic concepts, the Atmabodha, set in 68 verses, seeks to put the abstruse philosophy of the Brahma-Sutras within easy reach of the average person. Sankara begins by stating that the Atmabodha will serve as a primer to those desirous of liberation, equipped with the tools of discernment and renunciation.

(See also: Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

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In the United States, an intermittent stream is one that only flows for part of the year and is marked on topographic maps with a line of blue dashes and dots. A wash or desert wash is normally a dry streambed in the deserts of the American Southwest which flows only after significant rainfall. Washes can fill up quickly during rains, and there may be a sudden torrent of water after a thunderstorm begins upstream, such as during monsoonal condi ...

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Stream, Stream - Types of water streams, Stream - Other names for streams, Stream - Parts of a stream, Stream - Characteristics of streams, Stream - Intermittent and ephemeral streams, Stream - Watersheds

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Reefs comprise some of the densest habitats in the world by number of species per area. They can be incredibly diverse, even cold water reefs. The best-known are tropical reefs which exist in most tropical waters. Reefs are built up by coral and other calcined deposits, usually on top of a rocky outcrop on the ocean floor. Reefs can also grow on other surfaces, which has made it possible to create artificial reefs. Much attention in marine biology is focused on coral reefs and the El Niño weather phenomenon. In 1998, coral reefs expe ...

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Marine biology, Marine biology - Overview, Marine biology - Subfields, Marine biology - Related fields, Marine biology - Lifeforms, Marine biology - Microscopic life, Marine biology - Plant life, Marine biology - Other sea life, Marine biology - Fish, Marine biology - Marine mammals, Marine biology - Reefs, Marine biology - Deep sea and trenches, Marine biology - How oceanic factors affect distribution of various organisms, Marine biology - Famous marine biologists

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The length of a river is not always easy to calculate. It depends on the identification of the source, the identification of the mouth, and the precise measurement of the river length between source and mouth. As a result, the length measurements of many rivers are only approximations. In particular, there is disagreement whether the Amazon or the Nile is the world's longest river. The source of a river may be hard to determine because a river typically has many tributaries. Among the many sources, the one that is farthest away from t ...

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List of rivers by length, List of rivers by length - Definition of length, List of rivers by length - List of rivers longer than 2000 km, List of rivers by length - List of rivers longer than 1000 km, List of rivers by length - Longest rivers that have probably existed in the past, List of rivers by length - Nile, List of rivers by length - Amazon-Congo

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An active research topic in marine biology is to discover and map the life cycles of various species and where they spend their time. Marine biologists study how the ocean currents, tides and many other oceanic factors affect ocean lifeforms, including their growth, distribution and well-being. This has only recently become technically feasible with advances in GPS and newer underwater visual devices. Most ocean life breeds in specific places, nest or not in others, spend their time as juveniles in still others, and in maturity in yet ...

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Marine biology, Marine biology - Overview, Marine biology - Subfields, Marine biology - Related fields, Marine biology - Lifeforms, Marine biology - Microscopic life, Marine biology - Plant life, Marine biology - Other sea life, Marine biology - Fish, Marine biology - Marine mammals, Marine biology - Reefs, Marine biology - Deep sea and trenches, Marine biology - How oceanic factors affect distribution of various organisms, Marine biology - Famous marine biologists

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The ocean is deep, very deep in some places. The deepest recorded measure to date is the Mariana Trench, near the Philippines, in the Pacific Ocean at 10924 m (35838 ft). At such depths, water pressure is extreme and there is no sunlight, but some life still exists. Small flounder (family Soleidae) fish and shrimp were seen by the American crew of the bathyscaphe Trieste when it dove to the bottom in 1960. Other notable deeps include Monterey Canyon, in the eastern Pacific, the Tonga Trench in the southwest at 9750 m (32000 ft) ...

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Marine biology, Marine biology - Overview, Marine biology - Subfields, Marine biology - Related fields, Marine biology - Lifeforms, Marine biology - Microscopic life, Marine biology - Plant life, Marine biology - Other sea life, Marine biology - Fish, Marine biology - Marine mammals, Marine biology - Reefs, Marine biology - Deep sea and trenches, Marine biology - How oceanic factors affect distribution of various organisms, Marine biology - Famous marine biologists

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Marine biology - Microscopic life. Microscopic life undersea is incredibly varied and still poorly understood. For example, the role of viruses in marine ecosystems is barely being explored even in the beginning of the 21st century. The role of phytoplankton is better understood due to their critical position as the most numerous primary producers on Earth. Phytoplankton are categorized into cyanobacteria (also called blue-green algae/bacteria), various types of algae: red, green, brown, and yellow-green, diatoms, dinoflagellates, euglenoids, coccolithophorids, cryptomonads, crysomonads, chlorom ...

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Marine biology, Marine biology - Overview, Marine biology - Subfields, Marine biology - Related fields, Marine biology - Lifeforms, Marine biology - Microscopic life, Marine biology - Plant life, Marine biology - Other sea life, Marine biology - Fish, Marine biology - Marine mammals, Marine biology - Reefs, Marine biology - Deep sea and trenches, Marine biology - How oceanic factors affect distribution of various organisms, Marine biology - Famous marine biologists

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Ellis' writing career started in the British independent magazine Deadline with a 6 page short story in 1990. Other early works include a Judge Dredd short and a Doctor Who one-pager. His first ongoing work, Lazarus Churchyard appeared in Blast!, a short lived British magazine. By 1994 Ellis began working for Marvel Comics, where he took over the series Hellstorm with #12, which he wrote until its cancellation with #21. He also did some work on the Marvel 2099 imprint, most notably in a storyline where a fu ...

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Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis - Career, Warren Ellis - Awards, Warren Ellis - Bibliography, Warren Ellis - Marvel Comics, Warren Ellis - Wildstorm, Warren Ellis - DC Comics and Vertigo, Warren Ellis - Image Comics, Warren Ellis - AiT/Planet Lar, Warren Ellis - Avatar, Warren Ellis - Others, Warren Ellis - Trivia, Warren Ellis - Writings About Ellis

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The city of Seattle was one of several settlements in the mid to late 19th century vying for primacy in the newly formed Washington Territory. In 1854, territorial governor Isaac Stevens recommended the establishment of a university in Washington. Several prominent Seattle-area residents, chief among them Methodist preacher Daniel Bagley, saw the siting of this University as a chance to add to the city's prestige. They were able to convince early founder of Seattle and member of the territorial legislature Arthur A. Denny of the importance o ...

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University of Washington, University of Washington - Academics and Research, University of Washington - History, University of Washington - Organization, University of Washington - Campus setting and architecture, University of Washington - Athletics and traditions, University of Washington - Notable UW people, University of Washington - Presidents

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It can be assumed that there were other kings and queens since Narnian history lasted 2,555 years, and there are at least three other King Franks and seven other Caspians. King Frank I & Queen Helen King Frank V King Gale (1st Emperor of the Lone Islands) The White Witch (The following four rule concurrently) King Peter the Magnificent, the High King King Edmund the Just Queen Susan the Gentle Queen Lucy the Valiant See also:

Narnia country, Narnia country - The Kings and Queens of Narnia, Narnia country - Titles

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The study of oceanography has five main branches: Biological oceanography or marine biology, the study of the plants and animals (biota) of the oceans and their ecological interaction; Chemical oceanography, the study of the chemistry of the ocean; Geological oceanography or marine geology, the study of the geology of the ocean floor including plate tectonics; Meteorologic oceanography, or biospherics studies interactions between our atmosphere and the o ...

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Oceanography, Oceanography - Branches of oceanography, Oceanography - History of oceanography, Oceanography - Ocean and atmosphere connections, Oceanography - Notable oceanographers, Oceanography - Related disciplines

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It is often said that amphibious assaults are the hardest of all military operations to coordinate. They need such fine control and such a large degree of coordination that it is only the top tier powers that have the ability to even attempt them seriously, let alone pull them off. The two nations that have made by far the most amphibious assaults during the past century are the United States and United Kingdom. From the great assaults of WWII to the recent 400 mile amphibious assault on Afghanistan and the attack on the Al-Faw Peninsula in ...

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Amphibious assault ship, Amphibious assault ship - History, Amphibious assault ship - World War I and interwar period, Amphibious assault ship - World War II developments, Amphibious assault ship - Developments in the 1950s 1960s, Amphibious assault ship - Smaller ships, Amphibious assault ship - Recent innovations, Amphibious assault ship - Wasp and Tarawa air complement, Amphibious assault ship - List of amphibious assault ship types, Amphibious assault ship - Other navies with amphibious assault ships

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William Hughes - who taught the geography of the Holy Lands to divinity students at King's College London - defined geography in an address in 1863: "Mere place names are not geography. To know by heart a whole gazeteer full of them would not, in itself, constitute anyone a geographer. Geography has higher aims than this: it seeks to classify phenomena (alike of the natural and of the political world insofar as it treats of the latter) to compare, to generalise, to ascend from effects to causes and in doing so to trace out th ...

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Geography, Geography - Structure of geography, Geography - Physical geography, Geography - Human geography, Geography - Socio-environmental geography, Geography - Historical geography, Geography - History of geography, Geography - Geographic techniques, Geography - Related fields, Geography - Urban and regional planning, Geography - Regional science, Geography - Reference

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Greek sea gods - Primordial powers. Some early Greek thinkers made the sea-divinities into primordial powers. Oceanus and Tethys are the mother and father of the gods in the Iliad, while the Spartan poet Alcman made the sea-nymph Thetis a demiurge-figure. Orpheus's song in Book I of the Argonautica hymns the sea-nymph Eurynome as first queen of the gods, as wife of the ocean-born giant Ophion. The pre-Socratic cosmogony of Thales, who made water the first element, may be ...

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Greek sea gods, Greek sea gods - Types of Sea-Gods, Greek sea gods - Primordial powers, Greek sea gods - Poseidon and the Heroes, Greek sea gods - Old Men and Nymphs, Greek sea gods - Otherworld and Craft, Greek sea gods - Art and Literature

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List of rail accidents - 2000. January 4, 2000 – Åsta in Åmot, Norway: Two passenger trains collide on Rørosbanen killing 19 people. February 6, 2000 – Brühl, Germany: A night express train speeds in a construction area and derails at Brühl station, 9 die. March 2000 – Tokyo train disaster, Japan: A Tokyo subway train derails and is hit by another train on ...

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List of rail accidents, List of rail accidents - 1830s, List of rail accidents - 1840s, List of rail accidents - 1850s, List of rail accidents - 1860s, List of rail accidents - 1870s, List of rail accidents - 1880s, List of rail accidents - 1890s, List of rail accidents - 1900s, List of rail accidents - 1910s, List of rail accidents - 1920s, List of rail accidents - 1930s, List of rail accidents - 1940s, List of rail accidents - 1950s, List of rail accidents - 1960s, List of rail accidents - 1970s, List of rail accidents - 1980s, List of rail accidents - 1980, List of rail accidents - 1981, List of rail accidents - 1985, List of rail accidents - 1986, List of rail accidents - 1987, List of rail accidents - 1988, List of rail accidents - 1989, List of rail accidents - 1990s, List of rail accidents - 1990, List of rail accidents - 1991, List of rail accidents - 1992, List of rail accidents - 1993, List of rail accidents - 1994, List of rail accidents - 1995, List of rail accidents - 1996, List of rail accidents - 1997, List of rail accidents - 1998, List of rail accidents - 1999, List of rail accidents - 2000s, List of rail accidents - 2000, List of rail accidents - 2001, List of rail accidents - 2002, List of rail accidents - 2003, List of rail accidents - 2004, List of rail accidents - 2005

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While most Olokun initiates in Africa are female, the legends that mark the beginning of Olokun worship feature stories of men being their initial worshippers. Olokun - The Hunter. There was a hunter that resided in Urhoniigbe. One day he ventured off into the woods to find the source of distant singing and was met by a King and his court. He decided to stay awhile and at the invitation of the King participate in a spiritual ritual that was to take place. He ended up staying as the guest of the King (who is Olokun) for the following three years. During this time he learned the s ...

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Olokun, Olokun - Yemoja-Olokun-Mami Wata Connections, Olokun - Olokun Priesthood, Olokun - Two Origin Stories of Olokun Worship, Olokun - The Hunter, Olokun - The Palm Tree, Olokun - Contradictory stories in Orisa culture, Olokun - Communion with Olokun, Olokun - A Prayer to Olokun, Olokun - Relationships as allegories, Olokun - Recommended reading

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Prior to European contact in the 17th century, the present site of London was occupied by numerous Algonquin and Iroquois villages; the Algonquin village at the forks of Askunessippi (the Thames River) was called Kotequogong." This location was selected to be the site of the future capital of Upper Canada in 1793 by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe. It was Simcoe who named the settlement after London, England, however, his choice was initially rejected by Guy Carleton, (Governor Dorchester), who made the comment that "access to Lon ...

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London Ontario, London Ontario - History, London Ontario - Law and Government, London Ontario - Geography, London Ontario - Major Parks, London Ontario - Economy/Industry, London Ontario - Demographics, London Ontario - Crime, London Ontario - Education, London Ontario - Sports teams, London Ontario - Communications and media, London Ontario - Television, London Ontario - Radio, London Ontario - Newspapers, London Ontario - Arts and culture, London Ontario - Transportation, London Ontario - Miscellaneous, London Ontario - Notable Londoners

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Narnia - Narnia. The name of "Narnia" refers to not only the Narnian world, but especially to the country of Narnia within it, which its creator, Aslan the great lion, filled with talking animals and mythical creatures. Narnia is a land of rolling hills rising into low mountains to the south, and is predominantly forested except for marshlands in the north. The country is bordered on the east by the Eastern Ocean, ...

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Narnia, Narnia - Geography, Narnia - Narnia, Narnia - Archenland, Narnia - Calormen, Narnia - The Eastern Ocean, Narnia - Other lands, Narnia - Inhabitants, Narnia - Humans, Narnia - Dwarfs, Narnia - Talking animals, Narnia - Witches, Narnia - Mythological creatures, Narnia - Other creatures and inhabitants, Narnia - Cosmology, Narnia - General characteristics, Narnia - Multiverse, Narnia - Time, Narnia - History, Narnia - Creation of Narnia, Narnia - The Rule of the White Witch, Narnia - The Golden Age, Narnia - Invasion of the Telmarines, Narnia - King Caspian X, Narnia - Destruction of Narnia, Narnia - Contact with our world

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The historian Herodotus recorded (2.44): In the wish to get the best information that I could on these matters, I made a voyage to Tyre in Phoenicia, hearing there was a temple of Heracles at that place, very highly venerated. I visited the temple, and found it richly adorned with a number of offerings, among which were two pillars, one of pure gold, the other of smaragdos, shining with great brilliancy at night. In a conversation which I held with the priests, I inquired how long their temple had been built, and found by their ...

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Melqart, Melqart - Cult, Melqart - Mythology

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In 1992 a new management team led by ex-federal government bureaucrat, Paul Tellier, started preparing CN for privatization by emphasizing increased productivity, achieved largely through aggressive cuts to the company's bloated and inefficient management structure, as well as widescale layoffs in its workforce, and further abandonment or sale of branch lines. In 1993 and 1994 the company experimented with a rebranding exercise that saw the names CN, Grand Trunk Western, and Duluth, Winnipeg, and Pacific replaced under a ...

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Canadian National Railway, Canadian National Railway - Creation of Canadian National Railways 1918–1923, Canadian National Railway - Criticism of CNR, Canadian National Railway - Politics and government priorities, Canadian National Railway - Deregulation and recapitalization, Canadian National Railway - Cutbacks and refocusing, Canadian National Railway - CN's U.S. subsidiaries prior to privatization, Canadian National Railway - Privatization, Canadian National Railway - Purchasing Illinois Central, Canadian National Railway - Failed BNSF merger, Canadian National Railway - Purchasing Wisconsin Central, Canadian National Railway - Purchasing BC Rail, Canadian National Railway - Purchasing Great Lakes Transportation, Canadian National Railway - CN today, Canadian National Railway - Recent controversies, Canadian National Railway - Corporate governance, Canadian National Railway - Passenger trains, Canadian National Railway - Locomotives, Canadian National Railway - Former component railways, Canadian National Railway - Former subsidiaries, Canadian National Railway - List of CN companies

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