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Most rails are secretive wetland birds that have made little cultural impression, but as a formerly common farmland bird with a loud nocturnal call that sometimes led to disturbed sleep for rural dwellers, the corn crake has acquired a variety of folk names and some commemoration in literature.
Advanced Placement (AP) Biology (also known as AP Bio) is an Advanced Placement biology course and exam offered by the College Board in the United States. For the 2012–2013 school year, the College Board unveiled a new curriculum with a greater focus on "scientific practices".
Designated for motivated students with a command of standard English, an interest in exploring and analyzing challenging classical and contemporary literature, and a desire to analyze and interpret dominant literary genres and themes, it is often offered to high school seniors and the other AP English course, AP English Language and Composition, to juniors.
AP English Language and Composition is a course in the study of rhetoric taken in high school. Many schools offer this course primarily to juniors and the AP English Literature and Composition course to seniors. Other schools reverse the order, and some offer both courses to both juniors and seniors.
Advanced Placement (AP) International English Language (also known as APIEL) is an AP Examinations course managed by Educational Testing Service (ETS) with the sponsorship of the College Board in New York. [1] It is designed for non-native speakers to prepare for studying in an English-speaking university, particularly in North America.
The Open Syllabus Project (OSP) is an online open-source platform that catalogs and analyzes millions of college syllabi. [3] Founded by researchers from the American Assembly at Columbia University, the OSP has amassed the most extensive collection of searchable syllabi.
Door rails, a horizontal outside member on a door or in a frame and panel construction; Guard rail, for protective separation; Hand rail, for physical support, such as on stairways and steps; Picatinny rail, a bracket used on some firearms as a mounting platform; Power supply rail or voltage rail, a single voltage provided by a power supply unit
It is a warship on rails, with a heavily armored engine, plenty of automated guns, and a complement of troops on board. The Engine Woman’s Light by Laurel Anne Hill – a spirits-meet-steampunk novel about the heroic journey of a young Latina in an alternate 19th-century California, where trains are used to transport undesirables to a dreaded ...