Christmas was traditionally a Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus, but in the early 20th century, it also became a secular family holiday,              by Christians and non-Christians alike. The secular holiday is often devoid of Christian elements, with the mythical figure Santa Claus playing the pivotal role.

Python is an interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language with dynamic semantics. Its high-level built in data             , combined with dynamic typing and dynamic binding, make it very attractive for Rapid Application Development, as well as for use as a scripting or glue language to connect existing components together.

Internet of things The has evolved due to the convergence of multiple technologies, including                 computing, commodity sensors, increasingly powerful embedded systems, as well as machine learning.

Highway 213 begins in western Conway County on Highway 95 north of Morrilton and south of the Ozark National Forest. The highway runs northwest to Hattieville where it serves as the southern terminus for Highway 247. Following this             , the highway turns north, running to Old Hickory before terminating at Highway 124.

The Virgin Suicides is a score composed by French electronic music duo Air for the 1999 film of the same name by Sofia Coppola. It was released on 23 February 2000 by Virgin Records. The album was            for Best Soundtrack at the 2001 Brit Awards

HD 128429 is a binary star system located at a distance of 88 light years from the Sun in the southern zodiac constellation of Libra. It has a yellow-white hue and is just barely visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual              of 6.20

The study of astronomy, in the sense in which we understand the word, may be said to have commenced under the reign of the Ptolemies at Alexandria. The most famous name in the science of this period is that of Hipparchus who lived and worked at Rhodes about the year 160BC. It was his splendid investigations that first wrought the observed facts into a coherent branch of knowledge. He recognized the primary obligation which lies on the student of the heavens to compile as complete an inventory as possible of the objects which are there to be found.

Adapted from Winston Churchill speech ” we shal fight

We have found it necessary to take measures of increasing stringency, not only against enemy aliens and suspicious characters of other nationalities, but also against British subjects who may become a danger or a nuisance should the war be transported to the United Kingdom. I know there are a great many people affected by the orders which we have made who are the passionate enemies of Nazi Germany. I am very sorry for them, but we cannot, at the present time and under the present stress, draw all the distinctions which we should like to do. If parachute landings were attempted and fierce fighting attendant upon them followed, these unfortunate people would be far better out of the way, for their own sakes as well as for ours. There is, however, another class, for which I feel not the slightest sympathy.

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The batteries for electric cars use a lot of lithium, the lightest metal and the lightest solid element under normal conditions.  Chile produces the largest amount of lithium (8,800 tonnes per year), with other big producers including Argentina and China, while Bolivia has the world’s largest known reserves.  Other metals used in electric cars include copper, cobalt, aluminium, nickel and sometimes manganese, along with conductive non-metal graphite.  There are rich cobalt deposits in countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo, where it lies on the surface and is picked up by miners who include women and children.  Cobalt is toxic to humans and most of these miners work with little or no protective equipment.

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Research has shown that electric cars are better for the environment. They emit fewer greenhouse gases and air pollutants than petrol or diesel cars. And this takes into account their production and electricity generation to keep them running.
Put simply, electric cars give us cleaner streets making our towns and cities a better place to be for pedestrians and cyclists. In over a year, just one electric car on the roads can save an average 1.5 million grams of CO2. That’s the equivalent of four return flights from London to Barcelona.

In March of 1902, the New Zealand farmer , Richard Pearse, took flight for roughly 350 yards (by most eyewitness accounts) in a monoplane aircraft before crashing into a hedge. This little-known experiment took place months before the Wright brothers more sustained flight. However, historically, Wright brothers are known to be the inventor of the first airplane. 

It is poor economy to allow valuable mineral salts to be removed from flour by milling, from rice by polishing, and from vegetables by wrong methods of cooking. These minerals are necessary for the development of the child, for the preservation of teeth and bones, for high efficiency in the nervous system, and for a proper functioning of the various organs in the body. There is no economy in buying denatured grain, even though it is put up in cartons, at ten times the price of the natural grain.

the irony is that a similar trend of criminalization – within national legal systems – allows governments to oppress their citizenry to an extent previously unknown. Hitherto civil torts, permissible acts, and common behaviour patterns are routinely criminalized by legislators and regulators. Precious few are decriminalized. Consider, for instance, the criminalization in the Economic Espionage Act (1996) of the misappropriation of trade secrets and the criminalization of the violation of copyrights in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (2000) – both in the USA. These used to be civil torts.

the static shows multiple reasons for why they leave their jobs, according to human resources department in more than 100 companies

The product mix in most demand by consumers is changing—we eat more dairy than we drink these days—and dairy on the whole continues to grow,” said Dykes.

The charts below illustrate the consistent growth in per capita consumption of dairy products

It is now generally recognized that the old-fashioned method of teaching machine drawing is very unsatisfactory. In teaching by this method an undimensioned scale drawing, often of a very elaborate description, is placed before the student, who is required to copy it. Very often the student succeeds in making a good copy of the drawing placed before him without learning very much about the object represented by it, and this state of matters is sometimes not much improved by the presence of the teacher, who is often simply an art master, knowing nothing about machine design. It is related of one school that a pupil, after making a copy of a particular drawing, had a discussion with his teacher as to whether the object represented was a sewing machine or an electrical machine. 

The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet’s uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet.             

Following Caesar’s assassination, Mark Antony has reached the heights of power. Now he has neglected his empire for a life of decadent seduction with his mistress, Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Torn between love and duty, Antony’s military brilliance deserts him, and his passion leads the lovers to their tragic end.               

The systematic survey of the gravity field of the earth was given a great impetus by the contributions of Capt. Henry Kater,               designed, constructed, and applied a convertible compound pendulum for the absolute determination of gravity at the house of Henry Browne, F.R.S., in Portland Place, London

The impersonation of hatred and love by Fury and Cupid is much less poetical than the conception of an explosion of psychical forces, powerful and antagonistic, in millions of               at the same time.

When Oprah Winfery gave an advice, she said that “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have                    Hard working is a key to success and satisfaction.

The first application of the Goodenough shoe is almost invariably to the feet of horses suffering from some one of the forms of foot disease                 by the unnatural method of shoeing.

For those with short-term or chronic inflammation, sunflower seeds can offer anti-inflammatory benefits.          seeds contain vitamin E, flavonoids, and other plant compounds that can reduce inflammation.

Quantum computing can be used for portfolio optimization by banks for                . One can harness quantum computing through quantum processors, a combination of multiple qubits that use quantum properties to determine the best possible answer

Plum may help in relieving constipation and digestive issues such as flatulence, indigestion, bloating and heartburn. Plums have been used as a mild laxative. The jam prepared from dried plums has been shown                bowel movement and effectively decrease medication use.

The “Seven Seas” is a figurative term for all the seas of the known world. Mariners then referred to the Seven Seas               the Arctic, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Pacific, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico.

Often described as the archetypal Renaissance man, Leonardo was the painter of such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. In addition to possessing great artistic talent,                 experimented with philosophy, and wrote extensively on the myriad subjects he investigated.

Shakespeare contributed to the standardization of the English language in the 17th and 18th centuries. As his work                importance, correctly spelling words became more common. He created compound words, adverbs, and adjectives from verbs.

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian author best known for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina            are considered to be the greatest novels of realist fiction. Tolstoy is also regarded as world’s best novelist by many.

Charles Dickens attended the school of William Giles, and was a brilliant student.              , when he wasn’t studying, his siblings and he would start making up games of their own and play them, he would recite poetry and songs, and also created his own theatrical productions, which ignited an eternal love of theatre in him.

Cancer that splits and develops in new organs around the body becomes significantly more difficult to fight.            , researchers have shown that these metastatic cancers, that spread from the original, adapt their metabolism to the tissue in which they grow. The discovery represents a breakthrough for the understanding of metastatic cancer and is an important piece of the puzzle in the search for more effective treatments.

Marvel at the tiny nanoscale structures emerging from labs, and it’s easy to imagine you’re browsing a catalog of the world’s smallest pottery: itty-bitty vases, bowls, and spheres.            instead of making them from clay, the researchers designed these objects out of threadlike molecules of DNA, bent and folded into complex three-dimensional objects. These creations demonstrate the possibilities of a new open-source software program.

• Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurologic disorder that causes the brain to shrink (atrophy) and brain cells to die.
• Approximately 5.8 million people in the United States age 65 and older live with Alzheimer’s disease.
• The early signs of the disease include forgetting recent events or conversations.
• The early signs of the disease include forgetting recent events or conversations.

• van Gogh lived with mental illness throughout his life
• van Gogh’s staples were coffee, cigarettes and bread

• He was nicknamed ‘The Redheaded Madman’

• The truth behind van Gogh’s ear is still unknown

• ‘Starry Night’ was created in an ‘asylum’