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PBS: Encyclopedia - Honolulu, Hawaii

Location of Honolulu within the City & County of Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Honolulu is the capital and largest community of the U.S. State of Hawaiʻi. In the Hawaiian language, honolulu means "sheltered bay" or "place of shelter." The census-designated place (CDP) is located along the southeast coast of the island of Oʻahu. The term also refers to the District of Honolulu (see Geography below). As of July 1, 2004, the U.S. Censu ...

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PBS: Encyclopedia - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country's national radio and television broadcaster. In French, it is called la Société Radio-Canada (Radio-Canada or SRC). The umbrella corporate brand is CBC/Radio-Canada. The CBC is the oldest broadcasting service in the country, first established in its present form on November 2, 1936. Radio services include CBC Radio One, CBC Radio Two, La Première Chaîne, Espace musique, and the in ...

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PBS: Encyclopedia - Seattle, Washington

Location of Seattle in King County and Washington Seattle is the largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located in the U.S. state of Washington between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, nearly 108 miles (174 km) south of the United States–Canadian border in King County, of which it is the county seat. Seattle was founded in the 1850s and named after Chief Seattle, or Sealth. As of 2004, the population estimates of the city given by the U.S. Census Bureau was 571,480, howeve ...

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PBS: Encyclopedia - U.S. presidential election, 2004

The U.S. presidential election of 2004 was won by the incumbent President, Republican George W. Bush, who defeated his main rival, Democratic Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts. One of the main issues was the conduct of the War on Terror. Bush defended the actions of his administration, while Kerry contended that the war had been fought incompetently, and that the Iraq War was a distraction from the War on Terror, not a part of it. The popular vote election took place on Election Day, November 2, but it was not until the ne ...

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PBS: Encyclopedia II - Communications in the United States - Telephone

Telephones - main lines in use: 178 million (1999) Telephones - mobile cellular: 55.312 million (1997) Telephone system: domestic: a large system of fiber-optic cable, microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, and domestic satellites carries every form of telephone traffic; a rapidly growing cellular system carries mobile telephone traffic throughout the country international: 24 ocean cable systems in use; satellite earth stations - 61 Intelsat (45 Atlantic Ocean and 16 Pacific Ocean) ...

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Communications in the United States, Communications in the United States - Telephone, Communications in the United States - Radio, Communications in the United States - Television, Communications in the United States - Internet

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PBS: Encyclopedia II - Maura Clarke - Life and Work

Maura Clarke was born in Queens, New York. Maura joined the Maryknoll order of nuns in 1950, at the age of nineteen. Soon thereafter, she became a teacher and taught first grade at St. Anthony of Padua school in Bronx, New York. In 1959, Maura relocated to Siuna, in Nicaragua, a gold mining town. Here, Maura worked to help the poverty stricken mine workers and their families. She then worked with the poor elsewhere in Nicaragua, and was there to help those who were devastate ...

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Maura Clarke, Maura Clarke - Life and Work, Maura Clarke - Quotations

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PBS: Encyclopedia II - Ita Ford - Life and Work

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Ita entered Maryknoll order of Roman Catholic nuns at the age of twenty-one. Three years later, due to ill health, she had to leave. However, she reapplied, was accepted in 1971 and left for Bolivia in 1972. Soon she moved to Chile a short time before the September 11, 1973 military coup, which resulted in the death of Salvador Allende [1]. Ita lived in a poor shantytown of Santiago where she ministered to the needs of the people, especially those who lived in poverty. After taking a leave of about a year in the U ...

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Ita Ford, Ita Ford - Life and Work

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PBS: Encyclopedia - Cleveland Ohio

Location in Cuyahoga County, Ohio The city of Cleveland is the county seat of Cuyahoga County in the U.S. state of Ohio. The city is located on the southern shore of Lake Erie, in the Western Reserve in northeastern Ohio on the Cuyahoga River, approximately 60 miles (100 km) west of the Pennsylvania border. It was founded in 1796 near the mouth of the river, and became a manufacturing center owing to its location at the head of numerous canals and railroad lines. After the decline of heavy manufacturing, Cleveland's businesses are now more often in the ...

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PBS: Encyclopedia - Climate changes of 535–536

In the years 535 and 536, several remarkable aberrations in world climate took place. The Byzantine historian Procopius recorded of 536, "during this year a most dread portent took place. For the sun gave forth its light without brightness… and it seemed exceedingly like the sun in eclipse, for the beams it shed were not clear.". Tree ring analysis by dendrochronologist Mike Baillie, Queen's University, Belfast, shows abnormally little growth in Irish oak in 536 and another sharp drop in 542, after a partial recovery. Similar patterns are recorded in tree rings from Sweden and Finland, in ...

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PBS: Encyclopedia - Wireless energy transfer

Wireless energy transfer is the transfer of electromagnetic energy for power to do work via conduction and/or induction without a physical connection. Wireless energy transfer - Description. Wireless energy transfer, by definition, does not require direct electrical conductive contacts. Various systems work by transmitting electromagnetic energy from an external power source through a medium by running a large AC current through an external coil to generate a magnetic flux. The changing magnetic flux induce ...

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PBS: Encyclopedia - Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane was the first feature film directed by Orson Welles, after he had directed two short films previously. Endlessly discussed and dissected by critics and viewers alike, this innovative film is perhaps the most influential ever in film history. Citizen Kane is rumored to be based on the lives of the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, the reclusive aerospace and movie mogul Howard Hughes, and the Chicago utilities magnate Samuel Insull. Welles maintained that the character is a composite of severa ...

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PBS: Encyclopedia - Vincent Price

Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993), born in St. Louis, Missouri to Vincent Leonard Price and Marguerite Willcox Price, was an American film actor. He is most well remembered for his roles in a series of low-budget horror films where his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude were well used. In such films, his tall physique and polished urbane manner made him something of ...

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PBS: Encyclopedia - Wilmington North Carolina

For other places called Wilmington, see Wilmington Spence H. Broadhurst New Hanover County   - Total 41.5 mi² Wilmington is a city located in New Hanover County, North Carolina. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 75,838. It is the county seat of New Hanover CountyGR6. It was named in honor of Spencer Compton ...

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PBS: Encyclopedia - Collapse of the World Trade Center

The collapse of the World Trade Center was caused by the September 11, 2001 attacks that sent one hijacked airliner into each of the main towers of the World Trade Center complex, 1 WTC and 2 WTC. Both towers lost structural integrity and fell that morning, killing almost 3,000 people within and nearby. Other nearby buildings, including 7 WTC, were destroyed or damaged by the debris. Structural engineers and architects in the United States and elsewhere have extensively analyzed the collapse, sometimes contentiously, to determine whether the unusual structura ...

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PBS: Encyclopedia - Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran is the director of the Center for Brain and Cognition. He is also a professor of psychology and neuroscience, at the University of California, San Diego. In addition, he is a professor of biology at the Salk Institute. He has a medical degree from the Stanley Medical College, and a Ph.D. from Trinity College, Cambridge. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran - Mass media. The mass media has given Ramachandran some attention. He has appeared on both Channel Four and PBS documentaries. He has als ...

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PBS: Encyclopedia - Wildlife

The term wildlife refers to living organisms that are not in any way artificial or domesticated and which exist in natural habitats. Wildlife can refer to flora (plants) but more commonly refers to fauna (animals). Needless to say, wildlife is a very general term for life in various ecosystems. Deserts, rainforests, plains, and other areas—including the most built-up urban sites—all have distinct forms of wildlife. Humankind has historically tended to separate civilization from wildlife in a number of ways; besides the obvi ...

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PBS: Encyclopedia - William Shatner

William Shatner (born March 22, 1931) is an actor, writer and musical performer who gained fame for his starring role as Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the television show Star Trek from 1966 to 1969 and in seven of the subsequent movies. Shatner has written three books chronicling his experiences playing James T. Kirk and being a part of the Star Trek franchise. He has since worked as a writer, producer, director, musician, bestselling author, an ...

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PBS: Encyclopedia - Cincinnati Ohio

Cincinnati is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States that lies on the Ohio River and is the county seat of Hamilton CountyGR6. It is nicknamed "The Queen City" (also "The Queen of the West," "The Blue Chip City," "The City of Seven Hills" and "Cincinnata") and is sometimes abbreviated to "Cincy", "Cinci", or "Cinti". As of the 2000 census, Cincinnati had a total population of 331,285, making it the third largest city in Ohio. It has a much l ...

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PBS: Encyclopedia - Noam Chomsky

Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, often considered the most significant contribution to the field of theoretical linguistics of the 20th century. He also helped spark the cognitive revolution in psychology through his review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior, which challenged the behaviorist approach to the study of mind and language dominant in the ...

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PBS: Encyclopedia - Zoom

The word zoom has several meanings: The word zoom is an example of onomatopoeia that indicates swiftness. In photography and some computer programs, zoom indicates how much a region is enlarged or shrunk to fill the view; sometimes using a zoom lens, or sometimes using digital zoom. ZOOM is a children's television show created by PBS between 1972 and 1979, and from 1999. zOOm is a television channel by The Times Group, started in September 2004.

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