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[254] [255] There are small pockets of molten rock in the upper mantle, but these make up a tiny fraction of the mantle's volume. [256] The Earth's outer core is liquid, but it is liquid metal, not rock. [257] The Amazon rainforest does not provide 20% of Earth's oxygen. This is a misinterpretation of a 2010 study which found that approximately ...
The giant supervolcano that lies under Yellowstone National Park is cooling off in the west but staying hot in the northeast.
A 5 Pound note issued by the private banking firm of Gibbons & Williams in Dublin, Ireland (1833). Ireland has a history of trading its own banknotes for several centuries, both when the whole of Ireland was one legal entity, and following partition of the island into the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
A scale-free network is a network whose degree distribution follows a power law, at least asymptotically.That is, the fraction P(k) of nodes in the network having k connections to other nodes goes for large values of k as
Shortly before his death, Neyland drew up plans for a major expansion and renovation to the Vols' home stadium, Shields–Watkins Field. When he had arrived in Knoxville in 1925, Shields–Watkins Field seated only 3,200 people—barely a fraction of the capacity of Vanderbilt's Dudley Field. Reflecting the Vols' rise to national prominence ...
Although the China market only contributed to a small fraction of overall revenue of GSK, it is the fastest-growing markets of the company. The company had heavily invested in the market, where it built both clinical and research facilities. [27] GSK's sales in China recorded a 25% drop in the second quarter of 2014.
The grand jury made proposals for expenditure known as "presentments" which required the approval of the assizes judge. The money to pay for the presentments was raised by a "county cess" levied on landowners and occupiers in the county, a form of rate tax. [6] A second tier of administrative division below the county was the barony.
In 1964, the government introduced North Yemen's first paper money, which consisted of 1, 5, and 10 rial notes. These were followed by 10 and 20 buqsha notes in 1966, revised 1, 5, and 10 rial notes in 1969, and 20 and 50 rial notes on 13 May 1971.