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The Duke lacrosse rape hoax was a widely reported 2006 criminal case hoax in Durham, North Carolina, United States, in which three members of the Duke University men's lacrosse team were falsely accused of rape.
[15] [17] She said her family raised enough money to buy a small home there so she could go to school, and that her mother worked as a house cleaner in the town. [18] Ocasio-Cortez attended Yorktown High School, graduating in 2007. [19] In high school and college, Ocasio-Cortez went by the name of "Sandy Ocasio". [20]
Musschenbroek's outlet in France for the sale of his company's 'cabinet' devices was the Abbé Nollet (who started building and selling duplicate instruments in 1735 [17]). Nollet then gave the electrical storage device the name "Leyden jar" and promoted it as a special type of flask to his market of wealthy men with scientific curiosity.
The image of the shoe reconstructed by the brain of the person is the percept. Another example could be a ringing telephone. The ringing of the phone is the distal stimulus. The sound stimulating a person's auditory receptors is the proximal stimulus. The brain's interpretation of this as the "ringing of a telephone" is the percept.
A programmable logic controller (PLC) or programmable controller is an industrial computer that has been ruggedized and adapted for the control of manufacturing processes, such as assembly lines, machines, robotic devices, or any activity that requires high reliability, ease of programming, and process fault diagnosis.
2.0 2 House sparrow (Passer domesticus) 25 11 4.5 5 Greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) 376 20 1.5 4 Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) 2,200 39 1.0 2 Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) 3,150 64 1.0 1 Magellanic penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) 4,000 40 1.0 1 Golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) 4,800 40 1.0 2 Wild turkey (Meleagris ...
Burgoyne fought two small battles near Saratoga but was surrounded by American forces and, with no relief in sight, surrendered his entire army of 6,200 men on 17 October 1777. His surrender, according to the historian Edmund Morgan , "was a great turning point of the war, because it won for Americans the foreign assistance which was the last ...
A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a phosphorescent screen. [2] The images may represent electrical waveforms on an oscilloscope, a frame of video on an analog television set (TV), digital raster graphics on a computer monitor, or ...