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Quiz bowl (quizbowl, [1] scholars' bowl, scholastic bowl, academic bowl, academic team, academic challenge, etc.) is a family of quiz-based competitions that test players on a wide variety of academic subjects.
It flows for 60 miles (96 km) [1] and reaches the sea at a substantial ria, the Exe Estuary, on the south (English Channel) coast of Devon. Historically, its lowest bridging point was the Old Exe Bridge in Exeter , the largest settlement on the river, but there is now a viaduct for the M5 motorway about 2 miles (3.2 km) south of the city centre.
The thickness of the crust increases to the north beneath the rift, where it may be as much as 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) thicker than it is in the south. The crustal thickness underneath the rift is on average 30–35 kilometres (19–22 mi), thinner by 10–15 kilometres (6.2–9.3 mi) than the Colorado Plateau on the west and the Great Plains to ...
In 2016, the pulp and paper industry in the south of the country represented 33% of the national total. This year, Paraná was the national leader in the production of roundwood (mainly eucalyptus) for the pulp and paper industry (15.9 million m 3 ); Brazil was the second country that produced the most pulp in the world and the eighth in the ...
The research resulted in the publication of 33 scientific papers (see attachment to Bibliography). The original 1980 paper received the John Martin Award from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (formerly the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography) that recognizes papers still relevant ten years after their ...
His father was active in Republican politics, an investor in a railroad, and was a newspaper editor and publisher. [1] His mother taught school. [ 2 ] Turner was very much influenced by the writing of Ralph Waldo Emerson , a poet known for his emphasis on nature; so too was Turner influenced by scientists such as Charles Darwin , Herbert ...
An infographic illustrating and comparing the popularity of different geosocial networking services in August 2010. Geosocial networking is a type of social networking in which geographic services and capabilities such as geocoding and geotagging are used to enable additional social dynamics.
Commonwealth of The Bahamas – sovereign island country comprising an archipelago of seven hundred islands and two thousand cays. [1] The Bahamas are located in the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Florida and the United States, north of Cuba , the island of Hispaniola and the Caribbean, and northwest of the British Overseas Territory of the Turks ...