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Topic: The Living End (disambiguation)


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  Ammonite
Their closest living relative is probably the modern nautilus, whom they resemble.
Their fossil shells have the the form of flat spirals (though there are some other rarer forms, called heteromorphs), and are responsible for the animals' name as they somewhat resemble a tightly coiled ram's horn (the god Ammon was commonly depicted as a man with ram's horns).
A thin living tube called a siphuncle passed through the septa, extending from the ammonite's body into the empty shell chambers.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/am/Ammonite.html   (337 words)

  
 The Living End - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Living End formed in 1994 after lead singer/guitarist Chris Cheney and bassist Scott Owen were introduced to each other by their older sisters at Wheelers Hill Secondary College in Melbourne.
The Living End got their first big break in 1995 when, after sending a t-shirt and a demo tape to Billie Joe Armstrong, they landed a support slot in Green Day's upcoming Australian tour.
The Living End's fourth album, titled State of Emergency, was recorded in Byron Bay after they played in the Splendour in the Grass festival.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Living_End   (1783 words)

  
 Friends - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Friends was one of the longest-running and most popular American television sitcoms of the late 1990s centered on the lives of a group of six twenty-somethings (eventually thirty-somethings) consisting of three men and three women living in New York City.
The show focused on the lives of a group of six friends: spoiled daddy's girl Rachel Green; compulsively clean chef Monica Geller; wise-cracking, perennially unlucky-in-love, underconfident office drone Chandler Bing; oversexed, clueless actor Joey Tribbiani; three time divorced paleontologist nerd Ross Geller; and flaky, positive masseuse and aspiring folk singer-songwriter Phoebe Buffay.
Towards the end of the season, Chandler decides to propose to Monica, but things don't go smoothly as her ex-boyfriend Richard comes in the finale to almost ruin Chandler's plan.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Friends   (5318 words)

  
 Julius Caesar - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The dramatic assassination on the Ides of March was the catalyst for a second set of civil wars, which marked the end of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire under Caesar's grand-nephew and adopted son, Caesar Augustus.
During the course of the battle Caesar showed such personal bravery in saving the lives of legionaries, that he was later awarded the corona civica (oak crown).
At year’s end in 55 BC, Caesar had traveled to the farthest point in the known world and held most of Gaul firmly in his hand.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Julius_Caesar   (7529 words)

  
 Paris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Built at the western end of a westward extension of Paris' historical axis from the Champs-Élysées, La Défense consists mainly of business highrises and with 3.5 million m² of offices, it is today the largest CBD in Europe.
The widening social gap between these disadvantaged suburbs and the wealthier suburbs (especially the western ones) have led to periodic unrest since the mid-1980s, such as the 2005 riots.
This decline was due to the relocation of people to the suburbs caused by de-industrialisation, high rent, the gentrification of many inner quarters and the transformation of living space into offices, although not on the scale seen in some Western cities.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paris   (7915 words)

  
 [No title]
By enlarging an image of the priest's eye, Cheery discovers that the last person he saw was a golem; she also finds a piece of paper in his mouth, similar to the chem used to give life to a golem.
In the end, Tiffany throws away the hat she had been using, and decides to use the sky as her hat.
I ended up apparently with torn ligaments, though now my physio thinks my ankle may actually be broken - the swelling may have kept the bones together so meant an initial break wasn't caught in the x-ray.
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 Warsaw - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
However, the Polish-Russian war of1831 ended in the defeat of the uprising and the curtailment of the autonomy of theKingdom.
In 1995 the Warsaw Metro finallyopened and with the entry of Poland into the European Union in 2004 Warsaw is currently experiencing the biggest economic boom in its history.
Warsaw, end especially its downtown area of Śródmieście is not only home to many national institutions and government agenda, butalso is housing a huge number of both domestic and international companies.
www.free-web-encyclopedia.com /?t=Warsaw   (3588 words)

  
 Soul - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10, we read: "The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten.
He is not the God of the dead but of the living.” 33When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.
Jainists believe in a jiva, an immortal essence of a living being analogous to a soul, subject to the illusion of maya and evolving through many incarnations from mineral to vegetable to animal, its accumulated karma determining the form of its next birth.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Soul   (5987 words)

  
 United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Northern states were opposed to the expansion of slavery whereas the Southern states saw the opposition as an attack on their way of life, since their economy was dependent on slave labor.
At the southwestern end of the Great Basin, Death Valley lies below sea level and is the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere and is situated near the Mojave Desert.
Students are generally obliged to attend mandatory schooling in public schools starting with kindergarten, and ending with the 12th grade, which is normally completed at age 18, but many states may allow students to drop out at the age of 16.
www.donkeylink.com /en/United_States.htm   (6382 words)

  
 State of emergency (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
State of Emergency (album), an album by The Living End
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
If an internal link referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/State_of_Emergency   (99 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: Chemistry
It was fire that led to the discovery of iron and glass.
Biochemistry is the study of the chemicals, chemical reactions and chemical interactions that take place in living organisms.
Since the end of the second world war, the development of computers has allowed a systematic development of computational chemistry, which is the art of developing and applying computer programs for solving chemical problems.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/chemistry   (3834 words)

  
 Baseball - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
A series of strikes and lockouts began in baseball, affecting portions of the 1972 and 1981 seasons and culminating in the infamous 1994 baseball strike that led to the cancellation of the World Series and carried over into 1995 before it was finally settled.
To that end, the goal of each batter is to enable baserunners to score or to become a baserunner himself.
Some youth or amateur leagues will end a game early if one team is ahead by ten or more runs, a practice known as the "mercy rule" or "slaughter rule".
www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Baseball   (9859 words)

  
 GREECE : Encyclopedia Entry
Alexander led the Greeks to a victorious campaign which established a Greek Empire and introduced a new era in world history, the Hellenistic.
The end of an era arrived with the Fall of Constantinople on May 29, 1453 to the Ottoman Empire.
After the end of the Greek Civil War in 1949 and for more than two decades Greece achieved the second highest economic growth rate in the world after Japan, resulting in a dramatic improvement of living standards (the "Greek economic miracle").
www.bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Greece   (6294 words)

  
 Christianity   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The [[Christian cross and its many variations are traditional Christian symbols.]] As of 2005, Christianity is the world's most widely practiced religion, with 2.2 billion adherents (followed by Islam with 1.3 billion, Hinduism with 1.05 billion (150 million Yoga followers included), and the nonreligious with 774 million).
Until he returns at the end of the world, the Church has the authority and obligation to preach the Gospel and to gather new disciples.
The Protestant Reformation led to the development of a great number of denominations with unique teachings and practices distinct from Roman Catholicism and each other, including Lutherans, Quakers, and Mennonites.
christianity.ask.dyndns.dk   (5128 words)

  
 Greek
By the end of the 16th century and until the 17th century, Greeks began to migrate back to the plains and cities, adding to the increasing urban population.
These generous, brave acts took many foreigners by surprise and led to a considerable breakthrough in bilateral relations, marred by decades of hostility over territorial disputes and the situation in the divided island of Cyprus.
However, by the end of the games Greece was judged by the international media to have decisively proven wrong those who questioned its ability to stage the event, and immediately after the closing ceremonies many editorials in the international press actually offered apologies, admitting an overreaction.
www.mindsay.com /wiki/Greek   (4261 words)

  
 Adolf Hitler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He led Germany from the depths of post-World War I defeat to be one of the most powerful nations in the world; however, the war he started was ultimately lost, and the planned "thousand-year Reich" ended shortly after his death, reportedly by suicide, in the Führerbunker in Berlin during the final days of the war.
From 1905 onward, Hitler was able to live the life of a Bohèmien on a fatherless child's pension and support from his mother.
However, the RAF defeated the Luftwaffe by the end of October 1940, and Hitler therefore ordered bombing raids to be carried out on British cities, including London and Coventry, mostly at night.
adolf-hitler.iqnaut.net   (6091 words)

  
 GOD FACTS AND INFORMATION
The use of capitalization, as for a proper noun, has persisted to disambiguate the concept of a singular ''God'' from pagan deities for which lowercase ''god'' has continued to be applied, mirroring the use of Latin ''deus''.
The Aten cult is often cited as the earliest known example of monotheism, and is sometimes claimed to have been a formative influence on early Judaism, due to the presence of Hebrew slaves in Egypt.
This question prompted early Kabbalists (Jewish mystics) to envision two aspects of God, (a) God himself, who in the end is unknowable, and (b) the revealed aspect of God who created the universe, preserves the universe, and interacts with mankind in a personal way.
www.abusinessforme.com /God   (7594 words)

  
 DNA - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
When the ends of a piece of double-helical DNA are joined so that it forms a circle, as in plasmid DNA, the strands are topologically knotted.
Topologists like to note that the juxtaposition of the 3' end of one DNA strand beside the 5' end of the other at both ends of a double-helical segment makes the arrangement a "crab canon".
It was this subsequent discovery that led to the identification and naming of DNA as a substance distinct from RNA.
www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=DNA   (6710 words)

  
 RNA - Wikipedia
The first three bases are the same as those found in DNA, but uracil replaces thymine as the complementary base to adenine.
There are three main varieties of RNA found in all living cells:
Ribosomes are the protein-manufacturing organelles of living cells, and exist in the cell's cytoplasm.
nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/RNA   (674 words)

  
 fikestar's Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Rain begins, and the world is flooded, destroying all living beings save those in the ark. When it has subsided, Noah's family leaves the ark, and God enters into a covenant with Noah and all his descendants, the entire human race.
Joseph lives to see his great-grandchildren, and on his death-bed he exhorts his brethren, if God should remember them and lead them out of the country, to take his bones with them.
Jesus also preached the imminent end of the current era of history, in some sense a literal end of the world as people of his time knew it; in this sense he was an apocalyptic preacher bringing a message about the imminent end of the world the Jews knew.
fikestar.livejournal.com   (18180 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In the United Kingdom, 27% of the population lived in terraced houses and 32% in semi-detached houses, as of 2002.
In the United States in 2000, 61.4% of people lived in detached houses and 5.6% in semi-detached houses, the rest in row-houses or apartments, except for 7% living in mobile homes.
A typical "foursquare house" (as pictured) occurred commonly in the early history of the United States of America, with a staircase in the centre of the house, surrounded by four rooms, and connected to other sections of the house (including in more recent eras a garage).
www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=House   (1704 words)

  
 Turkey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The gradual conquest of Anatolia from the Byzantines by Turkic peoples, under the Seljuks with the Battle of Manzikert and the rise of the Seljuk Empire in the 11th century was finalized by the rise of the Ottoman Empire.
By the end of the 16th century, at the height of its power, the Ottoman Empire grew to cover Anatolia, North Africa, the Middle East, Southeastern and Eastern Europe and the Caucasus.
A series of economic shocks led to new elections in 2002, bringing into power the conservative Justice and Development Party led by the former mayor of Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
alanyahus.com   (4629 words)

  
 Nazism
The Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS and other German soldiers as well as civilian paramilitary groups in occupied territories were responsible for the deaths of an estimated eleven million men, women, and children in concentration camps, prisoner-of-war camps, labor camps, and death camps such as Auschwitz.
The rejection of democracy, with as a consequence the ending the existence of political parties, labour unions, and free press.
In addition, it has been pointed out that while it is often popularly believed that the Nazis ended Hyperinflation, the end of hyperinflation preceded the Nazis by several years.
www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/na/Nazism.htm   (4715 words)

  
 DNA - Wikipedia
DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the molecule in living things that contains the coding information for creating proteins.
The genetic code used by these molecules to encode the sequence of proteins is highly conserved, nearly universally so.
This suggests that all life on Earth is descended from a single original strain of living matter.
nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dna   (833 words)

  
 God - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The use of capitalization, as for a proper noun, has persisted to disambiguate the concept of a singular God from pagan deities for which lower case god has continued to be applied, mirroring the use of Latin deus.
But even though Akhenaten's hymn to Aten offers strong evidence that Akhenaten considered Aten to be the sole, omnipotent creator, Akhenaten's program to enforce this monotheistic world-view ended with his death; the worship of other gods beside Aten never ceased outside his court, and the older polytheistic cults soon regained precedence.
However, while God is the Lord of Maya and she (ie, Maya) is always under His control, living beings (jīva, in the sense of humans) are the servants of Maya (in the form of ignorance).
www.dictionpedia.com /en/God   (7283 words)

  
 ADAM AND EVE : Encyclopedia Entry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Only towards the end of chapter 2, when the first humans are about to be expelled from the Garden, does J cease referring to "man" and start writing about "the man".
Ninhursag is known as mother of all living creatures, and thus holds the same position as Eve.
Also, one of the possible interpretations of the ending of The End of Evangelion is that Shinji Ikari and Asuka Langley Soryu are slated to play the roles of the post-Third Impact Adam and Eve.
bibleocean.com /OmniDefinition/Adam_and_Eve   (6587 words)

  
 CONVERGENCE OF BIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON COGNITIVE COORDINATION IN SCHIZOPHRENIA
Contextual disambiguation is therefore impaired in tasks that assess executive functions and in tasks that assess non-executive functions.
Though we have focussed on coordinating interactions within the cortex, we assume that dynamic organization and contextual disambiguation are also relevant to the function of other brain regions such as the basal ganglia, the limbic system, thalamus and cerebellum.
In an early version of their theory these impairments were modelled as arising from reduced gain of units in a component of the model interpreted as being in the PFC (Cohen and Servan-Schreiber 1992).
www.bbsonline.org /documents/a/00/00/22/52/bbs00002252-00/bbs.phillips.htm   (16733 words)

  
 sociology - United States
During the 19th century, many new states were added to the original thirteen as the nation expanded across the North American continent, destroying many Indian nations in a decades-long military campaign, and through coercion, military prowess, and diplomatic leverage, it acquired a number of overseas possessions; during this period the nation became an industrial power.
After the end of the second World War and the later collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States emerged as the world's leading economic and military superpower.
The majority of the 295 million people currently living in the United States descend from European immigrants who have arrived since the establishment of the first colonies.
www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/United_States   (4041 words)

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