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City set on a Hill
City upon a hill is the phrase often used to refer to John Winthrop's famous sermon, "A Model of Christian Charity,", of 1630, based on Matthew 5:14 ("You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid."), in which he warned the Puritan colonists of New England who were to found the Read More... |
Roommate
A roommate is a person with whom one shares a room or rooms. Affectionately known as roomie.
In the UK, roommate normally refers to a person sharing the same room, whereas in the US it typically refers to a person sharing the same house or apartment irrespective of whether they share the same room (bedroom). In the UK, the latter would usually be referred to as a housemate or flatmate (flat being British English for an apartment), if they shared the same house or apartment but not the same room. [http://www.freesearch.co.uk/dictionary/roommate]
In most
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Quantisation
Generally, quantization is the state of being constrained to a set of discrete values, rather than varying continuously. Specifically, it may mean:
- Quantization (signal processing)
- Quantization (image processing)
- Quantization (sound processing)
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:This article is about a stage play. "Hobson's Choice" is also the title under which Robert J. Sawyer's story The Terminal Experiment was serialized in Analog magazine.
Hobson's Choice is a play by Harold Brighouse, the title coming from the popular expression, Hobson's choice — meaning no choic
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Initiation ceremony
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Coming from the Latin, initiation implies a beginning. The related term, initiate, means to begin or start a particular action, event, circumstance, or happening. But it is also an ending as existence on one level drops away in an ascension to the next.
An initiation is also a ceremony by which a person
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Poisson
:For other uses of Poisson, see Poisson (disambiguation).
Poisson (disambiguation)
Siméon-Denis Poisson (June 21, 1781 – April 25, 1840), was a French mathematician, Auguste Piccard (1884–1962), Swiss inventor.
- Charles Émile Picard (1856– 1941),
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Siméon-Denis Poisson
:For other uses of Poisson, see Poisson (disambiguation).
Poisson (disambiguation)
Siméon-Denis Poisson (June 21, 1781 – April 25, 1840), was a French mathematician,
The Right Honourable Patricia Hope Hewitt (born December 22 1948 in Canberra, Australia) and educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, is a British
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Ryoma Sakamoto
Sakamoto Ryōma (坂本 龍馬 Sakamoto Ryōma January 3, 1836 - December 10, 1867) was born in Kochi, of Tosa han. His family in previous generations had acquired enough wealth as sake brewers to purchase the rank of merchant samurai, which was the lowest rank of
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