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Encyclopedia - Trial: Encyclopedia - Trial
A trial is, in the most general sense, a test, usually a test to see whether something does or does not meet a given standard. trial (la...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Automated Planning And Scheduling: Encyclopedia - Automated Planning And Scheduling
This article focuses on approaches in artificial intelligence on the problem of automated planning and scheduling. It concerns the realis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brassiere: Encyclopedia - Brassiere
A brassière or bra is a foundation garment for women which covers and supports the breasts. Brassiere - Need for brassières. The femal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Knowledge: Encyclopedia - Knowledge
Knowledge is present moment awareness. In other words, on a practical level knowledge is whatever we are aware of right now. This explain...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jam: Encyclopedia - Jam
Jam is a type of fruit preserve made by boiling fruit with sugar to make an unfiltered jelly. Jam is often spread on bread and also as a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aquarium: Encyclopedia - Aquarium
An aquarium (plural aquariums or aquaria) is a clear-sided container (typically constructed of glass or high-strength plastic) in which w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Markup Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Markup Language - History
The term "markup" is derived from the traditional publishing practice of "marking up" a manuscript, that is, adding printer's instruction...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mac Os: Encyclopedia Ii - Mac Os - Versions
The Macintosh operating system initially consisted of two pieces of software, called "System" and "Finder", each with its own version num...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Potato Chips: Encyclopedia Ii - Potato Chips - Seasoned Chips
The potato crisp remained unseasoned, which limited its appeal, until an innovation by the owner of an Irish crisp company called Tayto, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Propositional Knowledge: Encyclopedia Ii - Propositional Knowledge - Knowledge In Various Disciplines
There are many different disciplines that generate beliefs that can be regarded as knowledge. They include science (which generates scien...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bazeries Cylinder: Encyclopedia Ii - Bazeries Cylinder - Operation
To encrypt a message, Alice rotates the discs to produce the plaintext message along one "row" of the stack of discs, and then selects an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quartic Equation: Encyclopedia Ii - Quartic Equation - Solving The Quartic Equation
According to the fundamental theorem of algebra, a quartic equation always has four solutions (roots). They may be complex and there may ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Soap Bubble: Encyclopedia Ii - Soap Bubble - Physics
Soap bubble - Surface tension and shape. A bubble can exist because the surface layer of a liquid (usually water) has a certain surface...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sudoku: Encyclopedia Ii - Sudoku - Solution Methods
The strategy for solving a puzzle may be regarded as comprising a combination of three processes: scanning, marking up, and analysing. S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mac Os: Encyclopedia Ii - Mac Os - Versions
The Macintosh operating system initially consisted of two pieces of software, called "System" and "Finder", each with its own version num...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Potato Chips: Encyclopedia Ii - Potato Chips - Seasoned Chips
The potato crisp remained unseasoned, which limited its appeal, until an innovation by Joe "Spud" Murphy (1923 – 2001), the owner of an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ivan Bloch: Encyclopedia Ii - Ivan Bloch - Influence
Bloch attended the first Hague Peace Conference in 1899, possibly at the invitation of Tsar Nicholas II, and distributed copies of his wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brassiere: Encyclopedia Ii - Brassiere - Bra Sizes
A bra size consists of two measurements: the "band size", given by a number, which is the circumference around the body excluding the bre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rome: Total War: Encyclopedia Ii - Rome: Total War - Factions
Rome: Total War - Factions and cultures in the original game. When Rome is first installed, it will only allow the player to play as on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Legend Of Prince Valiant: Encyclopedia Ii - The Legend Of Prince Valiant - Story Summary
The Legend of Prince Valiant - The Premise. Like the original comic strip, the series begins with the fall of Thule, the fictional king...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Knowledge: Encyclopedia Ii - Knowledge - Defining Knowledge
While knowledge is a central part of daily life, the actual definition of knowledge is of great interest to philosophers, social scientis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Knowledge: Encyclopedia Ii - Knowledge - Situated Knowledge
Situated knowledge is knowledge specific to a particular situation. Imagine two very similar breeds of mushroom, which grow on either sid...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Educational Perennialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Educational Perennialism - Secular Perennialism
Secular perennialism is a relatively new philosophy dating from only the mid-19th century. It has been supported by Mortimer Adler and Ro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aquarium: Encyclopedia Ii - Aquarium - Function And Design
From the outdoor ponds and glass jars of antiquity, modern aquaria have evolved into a wide range of specialized systems. Aquaria can var...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Knowledge: Encyclopedia Ii - Knowledge - Other Definitions
Knowledge is "information combined with experience, context, interpretation, and reflection. It is a high-valueform of information that i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mac Os: Encyclopedia Ii - Mac Os - Classic Mac Os Technologies
Some features of the "classic" Mac OS are still in use in Mac OS X, including: ColorSync  ColorSync is a technology for matching co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mac Os: Encyclopedia Ii - Mac Os - Project Star Trek
One interesting historical aspect of the classic Mac OS was a relatively unknown secret prototype Apple started work on in 1992, code-nam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mac Os: Encyclopedia Ii - Mac Os - Project Marklar
In April 2002, eWeek reported a rumor that Apple had a version of Mac OS X running on x86 processors, code-named Marklar. The idea behind...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Knowledge: Encyclopedia Ii - Knowledge - Other Definitions
Knowledge is "information combined with experience, context, interpretation, and reflection. It is a high-value form of information that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Knowledge: Encyclopedia Ii - Knowledge - Sociology Of Knowledge
Main articles: Sociology of knowledge and Sociology of scientific knowledge Aspects of knowledge exhibit a social character. For instance...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brassiere: Encyclopedia Ii - Brassiere - Culture
Statistics show the average American woman today owns six bras- one of which is a strapless bra and one a color other than white. Indeed ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brassiere: Encyclopedia Ii - Brassiere - Terminology
The word brassière derives from bracière, an Old French word meaning "arm protector" and referring to military uniform (bras in French ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Potato Chips: Encyclopedia Ii - Potato Chips - Origins
It is believed that the original potato chip recipe was created by Native American chef George Crum, at the Moon Lake Lodge in Saratoga S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sudoku: Encyclopedia Ii - Sudoku - History
The puzzle was designed by Howard Garns, a retired architect and freelance puzzle constructor, and first published in 1979. Although like...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mac Os: Encyclopedia Ii - Mac Os - Translation Emulation And Macintosh Clones
Some computers have been shown to successfully run MacOS using the process of translation emulation. One example of this is the Amiga tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mac Os: Encyclopedia Ii - Mac Os - A/ux
In 1988, Apple released its first UNIX based OS, named A/UX. This was an operating system that seamlessly integrated the Mac OS look and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Soap Bubble: Encyclopedia Ii - Soap Bubble - History Of Bubbles As Playthings
17th century Flemish paintings show children blowing with clay pipes. This means that bubbles as playthings are at least 400 years old. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sudoku: Encyclopedia Ii - Sudoku - Introduction
The name Sudoku is the Japanese abbreviation of a longer phrase, "suji wa dokushin ni kagiru," meaning "the digits must remain single"; i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sudoku: Encyclopedia Ii - Sudoku - Variants
Although the 9×9 grid with 3×3 regions is by far the most common, numerous variations abound: sample puzzles can be 4×4 grids with 2×...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sudoku: Encyclopedia Ii - Sudoku - Difficulty Ratings
Published puzzles often are ranked in terms of difficulty. Perhaps surprisingly, the number of givens has little or no bearing on a puzzl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Soap Bubble: Encyclopedia Ii - Soap Bubble - How To Make Soap Bubbles
The easiest ways are to use commercially produced soap bubble fluid (marketed as a toy) or to simply put some dish washing soap in water....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Soap Bubble: Encyclopedia Ii - Soap Bubble - Mathematical Properties
Soap bubbles are also physical illustrations of the problem of minimal surfaces, a complex mathematical problem. For example, while it ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Knowledge: Encyclopedia Ii - Knowledge - Sociology Of Knowledge
Aspects of knowledge exhibit a social character. For instance, knowledge is a form of social capital. Sociology of knowledge examines the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brassiere: Encyclopedia Ii - Brassiere - Construction And Fit
A bra consists of shoulder straps at either side, cups for the breasts, a center panel, and a band running around the body under the bust...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sudoku: Encyclopedia Ii - Sudoku - Mathematics Of Sudoku
The general problem of solving Sudoku puzzles on n2 x n2 boards of n x n blocks is known to be NP-complete [6]. This gives some indicatio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sudoku: Encyclopedia Ii - Sudoku - Construction
It is possible to set starting grids with more than one solution and to set grids with no solution, but such are not considered proper Su...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brassiere: Encyclopedia Ii - Brassiere - History
The concept of covering or restraining the breasts dates back to 6,500 years ago in Greece. Minoan women on the island of Crete 4,500 yea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Propositional Knowledge: Encyclopedia Ii - Propositional Knowledge - Types Of Knowledge
Knowledge can be classified into a priori knowledge, which is obtained without needing to observe the world, and a posteriori or empirica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Potato Chips: Encyclopedia Ii - Potato Chips - Similar Foods
Another type of potato chip, notably the Pringles and Lay's Stax brands, is made by extruding or pressing a dough made from ground potato...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aquarium: Encyclopedia Ii - Aquarium - Ecology
Ideal aquarium ecology reproduces the equilibrium found in nature in the closed system of an aquarium. In practice it is virtually imposs...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Propositional Knowledge: Encyclopedia Ii - Propositional Knowledge - Issues
What constitutes knowledge, certainty and truth are controversial issues. These issues are debated by philosophers, social scientists, an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Propositional Knowledge: Encyclopedia Ii - Propositional Knowledge - Practical Limits For Obtaining Knowledge
What we hold to be knowledge is often derived by a combination of reason from either traditional, authoritative, or scientific sources. M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aquarium: Encyclopedia Ii - Aquarium - Public Aquaria
Public aquaria are facilities open to the public for viewing of aquatic species in aquaria. Most public aquaria feature a number of small...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Potato Chips: Encyclopedia Ii - Potato Chips - Origins
It is believed that the original potato chip recipe was created by Native American chef George Crum, at the Moon Lake Lodge in Saratoga S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mac Os: Encyclopedia Ii - Mac Os - Project Star Trek
One interesting historical aspect of the classic Mac OS was a relatively unknown secret prototype Apple started work on in 1992, code-nam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mac Os: Encyclopedia Ii - Mac Os - A/ux
In 1988, Apple released its first UNIX based OS, named A/UX. This was an operating system that seamlessly integrated the Mac OS look and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Markup Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Markup Language - Classes Of Markup Languages
Markup languages are often divided into three classes: presentational, procedural, and descriptive. Markup language - Presentational mar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Markup Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Markup Language - Features
A common feature of many markup languages is that they intermix the text of a document with markup instructions in the same data stream o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aquarium: Encyclopedia Ii - Aquarium - History And Development
Aquarium - Etymology. The word aquarium itself is taken directly from the latin aqua, meaning water, with the suffix -rium, meaning "pl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brassiere: Encyclopedia Ii - Brassiere - Bra Sizes
A bra size consists of two measurements: the "band size", given by a number, which is the circumference around the body excluding the bre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rome: Total War: Encyclopedia Ii - Rome: Total War - Modification
Another manner in which the game was marketed to the computer elite and veterans to the Total War series was that the game was heavily, i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bazeries Cylinder: Encyclopedia Ii - Bazeries Cylinder - Basis For Military Ciphers
The Bazeries cylinder was the basis for the US "M-94" cipher machine, which was introduced in 1922 and derived from work by Parker Hitt. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brassiere: Encyclopedia Ii - Brassiere - Need For Brassières
The female breasts have very little internal support, being composed largely of adipose tissue. It is believed that the primary anatomica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Educational Perennialism: Encyclopedia Ii - Educational Perennialism - Religious Perennialism
Religious perennialism is the original form, developed first by Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century in his work De Magistro, (The Teacher)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rome: Total War: Encyclopedia Ii - Rome: Total War - Criticism
Rome: Total War and its expansion pack Barbarian Invasion have been criticised by Iranian players of the game due to the stereotypically...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rome: Total War: Encyclopedia Ii - Rome: Total War - Reviews And Awards
Rome: Total War has been critically acclaimed by many reviewers and is generally regarded as one of the best strategy games of 2004, winn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Legend Of Prince Valiant: Encyclopedia Ii - The Legend Of Prince Valiant - Characters
The Legend of Prince Valiant - Main Characters. Prince Valiant (voiced by Robby Benson) - Exiled prince of Thule. A courageous, noble,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Legend Of Prince Valiant: Encyclopedia Ii - The Legend Of Prince Valiant - Connections To Arthurian Lore And The Comic Strip
The characters of King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, Merlin, Sir Gawain, Sir Mordred, Lady Morgana, and Sir Kay are all major characters with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brassiere: Encyclopedia Ii - Brassiere - Construction And Fit
A bra consists of shoulder straps at either side, cups for the breasts, a center panel, and a band running around the body under the bust...   » Read the article