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The heat-affected zone (HAZ) is the area of base material, either a metal or a thermoplastic, which is not melted and has had its microstructure and properties altered by welding or heat intensive cutting operations. The heat from the welding process and subsequent re-cooling causes this change from the weld interface to the termination of the sensitizing temperature in the base metal. The extent and magnitude of property change depends primarily on the base material, the weld filler metal, and the amount and concentration of heat input by the welding process.
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... That not all stores in an outlet mall are actually outlets?
1+1=2.
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2+2+=upside down chair
-There were two reported deaths during the Woodstock festival of 1969. There were also two recorded births.
-The origin of the phrase "it's raining cats and dogs" is believed to be during Victorian England. Cats and dogs tended to walk across the roofs of the interconnected townhouses. Torrential downpours would often wash them right off.
-Spam was a staple of many of the Allied army's diets during World War 2. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev wrote in his autobiography, “Without Spam, we wouldn’t have been able to feed our army.”
-Albert Einstein was offered presidency of Israel. He turned it down, saying he didn't have a head for human problems.
"I am deeply moved by the offer from our State of Israel [to serve as President], and at once saddened and ashamed that I cannot accept it. All my life I have dealt with objective matters, hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to exercise official functions. For these reasons alone I should be unsuited to fulfill the duties of that high office, even if advancing age was not making increasing inroads on my strength. I am the more distressed over these circumstances because my relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world."
Ray Park holds a second degree black belt in Wushu and came in second place at the 1995 world championships.
All of Ray Park's lines as Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom Menace were dubbed by veteran British actor and comedian Peter Serafinowicz, best known in the US for his roles as Pete in Shaun of the Dead, and, more recently, Denarian Saal in Guardians of the Galaxy
Is it lying that is subject, or is truth subjective?
Truth is subjective. Lying is distorting or omitting relevant facts and facts are objective. Lying is relative.
It's quite possible that the word "dumbass" originates from 2 Peter 2:16 in the King James Bible (1612):
"[B]ut was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet."
The liver is the only human internal organ capable of natural regeneration of lost tissue; as little as 25% of a liver can regenerate into a whole liver. This is, however, not true regeneration but rather compensatory growth in mammals. The lobes that are removed do not regrow and the growth of the liver is a restoration of function, not original form. This contrasts with true regeneration where both original function and form are restored. In some other species, such as fish, the liver undergoes true regeneration by restoring both shape and size of the organ. In liver, large areas of the tissues are formed but for the formation of new cells there must be sufficient amount of material so the circulation of the blood becomes more active.
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"Even a man who is pure at heart, and says his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright." This quote has been listed in some sources as an authentic Gypsy or Eastern European folk saying. The Wolf Man writer Curt Siodmak admits that he simply made it up. Nonetheless, the rhyme would be recited in every future Universal film appearance of the Wolf Man, and would also be quoted in Van Helsing (2004). (Albeit, slightly modified, "The moon is shining bright." rather than "The autumn moon is bright.")
I will miss him.
In Japan, it is a semi-common practice to drink sake laced with actual gold leaf for large celebrations (new years, a birth, and so on.) More recently, one can buy packets of instant coffee with gold leaf as well.
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In materials science, deformation refers to any changes in the shape or size of an object due to-
- an applied force (the deformation energy in this case is transferred through work) or
- a change in temperature (the deformation energy in this case is transferred through heat).
The first case can be a result of tensile (pulling) forces, compressive (pushing) forces, shear, bending or torsion (twisting).
In the second case, the most significant factor, which is determined by the temperature, is the mobility of the structural defects such as grain boundaries, point vacancies, line and screw dislocations, stacking faults and twins in both crystalline and non-crystalline solids. The movement or displacement of such mobile defects is thermally activated, and thus limited by the rate of atomic diffusion.
Deformation is often described as strain.
As deformation occurs, internal inter-molecular forces arise that oppose the applied force. If the applied force is not too great these forces may be sufficient to completely resist the applied force and allow the object to assume a new equilibrium state and to return to its original state when the load is removed. A larger applied force may lead to a permanent deformation of the object or even to its structural failure.
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Late pleistocene megafauna populations in the northeastern North America were already declining due to climate change before humans first settled in the region. this implies that humans weren't the sole or even primary factor in the extinction of north american megafauna, though it does not prove or disprove that humans were a factor.
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That's an odd way to spell Freddie Mercury...
Pretty odd way of spelling "Brian May" and "stadium rock" too, for that matter.
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Aha! Brian May! I googled "Brian Jay" and came up with a no-page nobody associated with a no-name band called "Keel," and no mention of astrophysics in sight.
So now I'm also wondering at how "guitarist" got spelled s-i-n-g-e-r.
Aha! Brian May! I googled "Brian Jay" and came up with a no-page nobody associated with a no-name band called "Keel," and no mention of astrophysics in sight.
So now I'm also wondering at how "guitarist" got spelled s-i-n-g-e-r.
HEY! I liked Keel!
Alice Miller, a psychologist who is well known for her studies and writings of child abuse, was herself a child abuser, and never truly faced this fact. She wrote a letter of apology to her son in 1998, but according to Martin Miller in Haaretz, she never truly changed.
The picture of post-holocaust intergenerational trauma here is familiar.
Max Planck, the physicist whose name is immortalized in the planck constant of quantum physics, had a very sad life full of death and suffering.
Quotes from wikipedia:
In March 1887 Planck married Marie Merck (1861–1909), sister of a school fellow, and moved with her into a sublet apartment in Kiel. They had four children: Karl (1888–1916), the twins Emma (1889–1919) and Grete (1889–1917), and Erwin (1893–1945).
After the apartment in Berlin, the Planck family lived in a villa in Berlin-Grunewald, Wangenheimstrasse 21. Several other professors of Berlin University lived nearby, among them theologian Adolf von Harnack, who became a close friend of Planck. Soon the Planck home became a social and cultural centre. Numerous well-known scientists, such as Albert Einstein, Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner were frequent visitors. The tradition of jointly performing music had already been established in the home of Helmholtz.
After several happy years, in July 1909 Marie Planck died, possibly from tuberculosis. In March 1911 Planck married his second wife, Marga von Hoesslin (1882–1948); in December his fifth child Hermann was born.
During the First World War Planck's second son Erwin was taken prisoner by the French in 1914, while his oldest son Karl was killed in action at Verdun. Grete died in 1917 while giving birth to her first child. Her sister died the same way two years later, after having married Grete's widower. Both granddaughters survived and were named after their mothers. Planck endured these losses stoically.
In January 1945, Erwin, to whom he had been particularly close, was sentenced to death by the Nazi Volksgerichtshof because of his participation in the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in July 1944. Erwin was executed on 23 January 1945.[11]
When the Nazis seized power in 1933, Planck was 74. He witnessed many Jewish friends and colleagues expelled from their positions and humiliated, and hundreds of scientists emigrated from Germany. Again he tried to "persevere and continue working" slogan and asked scientists who were considering emigration to remain in Germany. He hoped the crisis would abate soon and the political situation would improve.
Otto Hahn asked Planck to gather well-known German professors in order to issue a public proclamation against the treatment of Jewish professors, but Planck replied, "If you are able to gather today 30 such gentlemen, then tomorrow 150 others will come and speak against it, because they are eager to take over the positions of the others."[22] Under Planck's leadership, the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG) avoided open conflict with the Nazi regime, except concerning Fritz Haber. Planck tried to discuss the issue with Adolf Hitler but was unsuccessful. In the following year, 1934, Haber died in exile.
One year later, Planck, having been the president of the KWG since 1930, organized in a somewhat provocative style an official commemorative meeting for Haber. He also succeeded in secretly enabling a number of Jewish scientists to continue working in institutes of the KWG for several years. In 1936, his term as president of the KWG ended, and the Nazi government pressured him to refrain from seeking another term.
As the political climate in Germany gradually became more hostile, Johannes Stark, prominent exponent of Deutsche Physik ("German Physics", also called "Aryan Physics") attacked Planck, Sommerfeld and Heisenberg for continuing to teach the theories of Einstein, calling them "white Jews". The "Hauptamt Wissenschaft" (Nazi government office for science) started an investigation of Planck's ancestry, claiming that he was "1/16 Jewish"; however, Planck himself denied this.[23]
In 1938, Planck celebrated his 80th birthday. The DPG held a celebration, during which the Max-Planck medal (founded as the highest medal by the DPG in 1928) was awarded to French physicist Louis de Broglie. At the end of 1938, the Prussian Academy lost its remaining independence and was taken over by Nazis (Gleichschaltung). Planck protested by resigning his presidency. He continued to travel frequently, giving numerous public talks, such as his talk on Religion and Science, and five years later he was sufficiently fit to climb 3,000-meter peaks in the Alps.
During the Second World War the increasing number of Allied bombing missions against Berlin forced Planck and his wife to temporarily leave the city and live in the countryside. In 1942 he wrote: "In me an ardent desire has grown to persevere this crisis and live long enough to be able to witness the turning point, the beginning of a new rise." In February 1944 his home in Berlin was completely destroyed by an air raid, annihilating all his scientific records and correspondence. His rural retreat was threatened by the rapid advance of the Allied armies from both sides. After the end of the war Planck, his second wife, and his son by her were brought to a relative in Göttingen, where Planck died on October 4, 1947.
Planck endured many personal tragedies after the age of fifty. In 1909, his first wife died after 22 years of marriage, leaving him with two sons and twin daughters. Planck's older son, Karl, was killed in action in 1916 during the First World War. His daughter Margarete died in childbirth in 1917 and another daughter, Emma, married her late sister's husband and then also died in childbirth in 1919. In 1945, Planck's younger son, Erwin, was arrested due to the attempted assassination of Hitler in the July 20 plot. Erwin consequently died at the hands of the Gestapo; his death destroyed much of Max Planck's will to live.[24]
TL;DR
- In 1909 His first wife died after 22 years of marriage.
- In 1914 his son Erwin was taken prisoner by the French in the war.
- In 1916 his son Karl was killed in action during the war.
- In 1917 and 1919 both his twin daughters died in childbirth within two years.
- In 1933 the Nazis seized power and expelled many of his Jewish colleagues and friends from their positions. At this time Planck led the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and attempted to petition Hitler to cease his mistreatment of Jewish professors, but was unsuccessful.
- After 1936, when his term as president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society ended, attacked Planck for teaching the theories of Einstein and attempted an investigation of his ancestry to claim he was 1/16th Jewish.
- In 1938, the Prussian Academy of Sciences was taken over by nazis, and Max Planck protested by resigning his presidency of the academy.
- After fleeing to the countryside, Planck's home was destroyed in an air raid by the allies (especially unfortunate given he was an extremely important anti-nazi physicist, but I guess they weren't aware)
- In 1945, his son Erwin was arrested for his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler, and was killed by the Gestapo.
- In 1947. Planck had lost the will to live, and died.
Addendum. I just found a letter sent by Max Planck to Hitler, pleading desperately for his son's life.
he was killed by the gestapo anyway.
Alright, my initial interpretation of Planck trying to help his endangered colleagues may have been exaggerated. It seems like he was actually rather ineffectual, cowardly, and anti-semitic:
Max Planck disgraced himself. Einstein had written to Planck to refute privately the charge that he had spread rumours against Germany, telling him that he spoke now only to combat what was clearly a Nazi “war of extermination against my Jewish brethren.” Planck answered Einstein in a letter that identified Jewishness and National Socialism as “ideologies that cannot co-exist.” He deplored both and emphasized his loyalty to Germany, no matter who was in charge. Each man assured the other of his lasting regard and friendship, and Einstein always felt something akin to love for the older man. But Planck’s public statement on Einstein’s resignation from the Academy illustrated the mental gymnastics he had mastered so quickly in Hitler’s new Germany. He praised Einstein as a physicist without equal since the days of Kepler and Newton, but, he concluded, his exile was his own fault: “It is. . . greatly to be regretted,” he said at the Academy meeting that day, “that Mr. Einstein through his political behaviour himself rendered his continued membership in the Academy impossible.” Einstein’s politics were to blame, not those of a German government that had chosen to destroy him.
Then again, if Einstein himself wouldn't condemn him, then I won't either, though I cannot say that I find Planck's position admirable.
The Cocteau Twins weren't twins, and there were at least three of them.
Dried crazyglue (cyanoacrylate) is brittle like glass.
2-octyl cyanoacrylate is used to suture wounds.
The Cocteau Twins weren't twins, and there were at least three of them.I always preferred the Doublemint Twins. Mmmm......sexy.
Double the pleasure, double the fun.
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Evan Rachel Wood has a black belt in tae kwon do.
They tried to give me one, too, but I refused to shell out the $150. Seriously, those things don't mean much anymore.
It's up to you.
Evan Rachel Wood has a black belt in tae kwon do.They tried to give me one, too, but I refused to shell out the $150. Seriously, those things don't mean much anymore.
They matter if you had a good instructor... not the belt itself (you could get a pretty nice black belt at any store) but rather the knowledge that belt represents.
With absolute certainty, ancient germanic peoples were familiar with cannabis, straight through antiquity up into the viking age.
hemp <- OE hænep <- Proto-gmc \*hanapiz <- Scythian \*kanabis
Descendants[edit]
Old English: hænep
English: hemp
Old Saxon: hanap
Old Dutch: *hanap, *henep
Middle Dutch: hannep, hennep
Dutch: hennep
Old High German: hanaf
German: Hanf
Old Norse: hampr
Icelandic: hampur
Faroese: hampur
Norwegian: hamp
Swedish: hampa
Elfdalian: ampa
Danish: hamp
This word was borrowed from Scythian before Grimm's Law took place in 1st milennium bc.