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(pl.) aboiteaux A sluice or conduit built beneath a coastal dike, with a hinged gate or a one-way valve that closes during high tide, preventing salt water from flowing into the sluice and flooding the land behind the dike, but remains open during low tide, allowing fresh water precipitation and irrigation runoff to drain from the land into the sea; or a method of land reclamation which relies ...
Generation Z (often shortened to Gen Z), also known as Zoomers, [1] [2] [3] is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha.Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1990s as starting birth years and the early 2010s as ending birth years, with the generation most frequently being defined as people born from 1997 to 2012.
An adult child hugging her mom. It may seem like only yesterday you were baby-talking to a newborn or videotaping a toddler's first words. Now, that little one is all grown up.
This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.
For Earth Day on April 22, interesting facts including who invented it, why it's on that date, and how it turned into a global movement.
The assessment found that the "integrity of the earth's life-support systems" was essential for sustainability. [ 3 ] : 140 The authors said that "the SDGs fail to recognize that planetary, people and prosperity concerns are all part of one earth system, and that the protection of planetary integrity should not be a means to an end, but an end ...
The earliest evidence for life on Earth includes: 3.8 billion-year-old biogenic hematite in a banded iron formation of the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in Canada; [30] graphite in 3.7 billion-year-old metasedimentary rocks in western Greenland; [31] and microbial mat fossils in 3.48 billion-year-old sandstone in Western Australia. [32] [33 ...
Steve Buscemi John Nacion/Getty Images Steve Buscemi didn’t love every moment of filming the movie Grown Ups. In the 2010 film, Buscemi’s character, Wiley, suffers an injury at the waterpark ...