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Weather: Moisture and Humidity

Moisture and HumidityWeatherPartly to Mostly CloudyMoisture and HumidityIn the CloudsTen Major Cloud TypesForecasting by Clouds In all my years of teaching and talking about the weather, I have…

Algebra: Graphing with Slope-Intercept Form

Graphing with Slope-Intercept Form Algebra Cooking Up Linear Equations Point-Slope Form Slope-Intercept Form Graphing with Slope-Intercept Form Standard Form of a Line Tricky Linear Equations…

Writing Well

Writing WellWriting Wellch01s01 you-got-some-splaining-to-do-lucy-expositionch01s02 perfect-couple-cause-effectch01s03 neat-tidy-classify-dividech01s04 alike-different-comparison-contrastch01s05 you-…

Disposing of Gasoline

The Question: What should I do with old gasoline? The Answer: The best way to dispose of old gas is to use it up. You can put one or two…

Dexter, Colin

(Encyclopedia) Dexter, Colin (Norman Colin Dexter), 1930–2017, English mystery novelist, b. Stamford, Lincolnshire. He as a classics teacher in secondary schools until deafness forced him to find a…

coup

(Encyclopedia) coupcoupk&oomacr; [key] [Fr.,=blow], among Native North Americans of the Plains culture, a war honor, awarded for striking an enemy in such a way that it was considered an extreme…

crucible

(Encyclopedia) crucible, vessel in which a substance is heated to a high temperature, as for fusing or calcining. The necessary properties of a crucible are that it maintain its mechanical strength…

charleston, dance

(Encyclopedia) charleston, social dance of the United States popular in the mid-1920s. The charleston is characterized by outward heel kicks combined with an up-and-down movement achieved by bending…

Albano, Lake

(Encyclopedia) Albano, LakeAlbano, Lakeälbäˈnō [key], crater lake, 2 sq mi (5.2 sq km), central Italy, in the Alban Hills SE of Rome. It is c.6 mi (9.7 km) in circumference and c.560 ft (170 m) deep…