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- Jackalope
Contrived mounted heads of jackalopes may be for sale in some novelty stores, particularly in the American West and great plains and on the www; postcards with faked photos showing jackalopes are also published. The jackalope story is sometimes used by locals in these areas to play tricks on tourists. The jackalope legend in the U.S is attributed by the New York Times to Douglas Herrick (1920-2003) of Douglas, Wyoming, in 1932. Postcards showing jackalopes were also sold in the U.S. in the 1930s. Horned rabbits abound in European and, particularly, German and Austrian, legends as the raurackl, rasselbock and wolpertinger.
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- Jason Robertson
Jason Robertson Jason Robertson (1982-2003) was an AIDS activist and his battle to attend school as a boy with AIDS in the 1980s helped other children with the same condition to overcome the dilemma. He was diagnosed with the AIDS virus in 1986. He contracted the virus through blood products used to treat his hemophilia. He died at 23. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it.
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- Vitamin C
It is carried out either in the kidneys, in reptiles and birds, or the liver, in mammals and perching birds. The loss of an enzyme concerned wi
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th ascorbic acid synthesis has occurred quite frequently in evolution and has affected at least some fish, many birds; some bats, guinea pigs and most but not all primates, including Man. The mutations have not been lethal because ascorbic acid is so prevalent in the surrounding food sources. Table Showing Abundance of Vitamin C in Raw Foods of Animal Origin Raw animal tissue Mg vitamin C per 100 grams of tissue Beef liver 31 Oysters
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- Jeff Somers
Jeff Somers Jeff Somers is the publisher the zine The Inner Swine. Also the author of Lifers and The Freaks are Winning: The Inner Swine Collection. Representative Quote "Under laboratory conditions I have nurtured my own ego into a huge, healthy beast with rippling muscles and thick, downy hair. But I have also entrusted servants with Elephant Guns
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- Vinegar
and chips. Malt vinegar is made by malting barley, causing the starch in the grain to turn to sugar. An ale is then brewed from the sugar and allowed to turn into vinegar, which is then aged. A cheaper alternative, called 'non-brewed condiment', is a solution of 4-8% acetic acid coloured with caramel. White vinegar can be made by distilling malt vinegar, or may be nothing more than a solution of acetic acid in water. Italian balsamic vinegar, made around Modena in Italy from white Trebbiano grape juice, is used in salad dressings, ice cream, marinades and drinking. It is aged
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- Virology
Virology Virology is the study of viruseses and their properties. Properties include : Viral replication Viral pathogenesis Viral immunology Viral vaccines Diagnostic methods Antiviral chemotherapy Infection control measures Virus outbreaks See also : retrovirus -- HIV -- phage Back to : molecular biology
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- John Brunner
as an officer in the Royal Air Force, 1953 to 1955. He married Marjorie Rosamond Sauer on July 12, 1958. At first writing conventional space opera, he began to experiment with the novel form. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar won the 1969 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel, and is now considered a classic of the genre. The Jagged Orbit won the British SF Award in 1971. Brunner's best-known work is perhaps 1975's The Shockwave Rider, in which he coined the term "worm", used to describe malicious software (see virus). His pen names include: K. H. Brunner, Gill Hunt,
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- John Gilmore
He created the alt.* hierarchy in Usenet. As the fifth employee of Sun Microsystems, he accumulated sufficient wealth to take an early retirement and pursue other interests. He is a frequent contributor to free software, and worked on several GNU projects, including maintaining the GNU Debugger. He owns the domain toad.com. He runs the mail server at toad.com as an open mail relay, allowing friends who travel to send e-mail through his server. In March 2002, this was in the news since an Internet virus had that mail server hardcoded as one of the open mail relays it would use to
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- Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk Jonas Salk (October 28, 1914 - June 23, 1995) is the discoverer/inventor of the eponymous Salk vaccine (see polio vaccine). This was one of the first successful attempts at immunization against a virus, specifically the Poliomyelitis virus. The vaccine provides the recipient with immunity against Polio, and was seminal in the near eradication of a once widely-feared disease. Salk was born in New York City. He spent his career as a professor at
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- Jonathan Archer
of alien races, including the Andorians, the Axanar, the Romulans, the Tandarans, the Tellarites, the Tholians, and the Xindi. Although initially optimistic, Archer became involved in his first mission as Captain of the Enterprise in the Temporal Cold War. In a dispute with the Klingon Empire, Archer was convicted and sentenced to exile on Rura Penthe. With his escape, a bounty was put on his head and tensions with the Empire increased. With the Xindi kamikaze attack on Earth, Archer became a changed man, determined to seek out and confront the perpetrators. This pushed him to commit desperate acts of questionable
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- John Shirley
Hunger (2001) short novel In Darkness Waiting (1988) Kamus of Kadizar: The Black Hole of Carcosa (1988) Silicon Embrace (1996) A Song Called Youth Series (aka. Eclipse Trilogy): Eclipse (1985) Eclipse Penumbra (1988) Eclipse Corona (1990) Spider Moon (2002) A Splendid Chaos (1988) Three-Ring Psychus (1980) Transmaniacon (1979) The View From Hell (2001) short novel Wetbones (1991) Short Story Collections Black Butterflies Darkness Divided Really, Really, Really, Really Weird Stories Quotes "John Shirley was cyberpunk's Patient Zero, first locus of the virus, certifiably virulent." — William Gibson "Barely street-legal, Shirley's Bosch-like visions mark him out as perhaps the closest thing contemporary
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- Joseph Featherstone
Joseph Featherstone Joseph Featherstone was a notable Canadian Liberal Party politician, live stock advocate and farmer. His career consisted of being a farmer and thoroughbred dealer in Toronto Township. He was President of the Dominion Live Stock Association in 1887, 1st Vice President of the Dominion Live Stock Insurance Company from 1887-1888. He also served as President of the Canadian Swine Breeders Association from 1890-1891. He served as a Councillor, Deputy Reeve and Reeve before entering Federal politics. He was chosen as Liberal Candidate in Peel County to contest the general election for the House
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- John Stagliano
John Stagliano John Stagliano (November 29, 1950) is an American erotic actor and director. Stagliano is best known for his Buttman series of films, which is credited for creating the adult film genre of gonzo. In 1997, John Stagliano tested positive for the HIV virus. To date, he has kept the virus in check with massive doeses of medications. Stagliano is married to former porn star Tricia Deveraux (also HIV positive), and they are parents to one daughter.
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- Joanna Pacula
in Paris when communist authorities in Poland declared martial law. She eventually emigrated to the USA where she has specialized in playing European temptresses since her feature debut opposite William Hurt in "Gorky Park" (1983). She acted the part of the exotic beauty in numerous American TV series and movies, including the Holocaust drama "Escape From Sobibor" (CBS, 1987), "E.A.R.T.H. Force" (CBS, 1990) and "The Colony" (ABC, 1996). More recently, she was featured in "Tombstone" (1993) as Doc Holliday's lover Kate, "The Haunted Sea" (1997) and "Virus" (1999), playing a Russian scientist.
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- June 26
24 hours of Le Mans 1924 - American occupying forces leave the Dominican Republic. 1945 - The charter of the United Nations is signed. 1948 - The Western allies start an air lift to Berlin after the Soviet Union has blockaded West Berlin. 1963 - John F. Kennedy speaks the famous words "Ich bin ein Berliner". 1964 - The Beatles release the album A Hard Day's Night. 1977 - Last concert of Elvis Presley. 1979 - Muhammad Ali retires. 1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amend
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ment. This is the yearly activation day
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- June 2
is replaced in the lineup by Lou Gehrig, who also starts the next 2,128 consecutive games. 1946 - In a referendum Italians decide to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After this referendum the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia was exiled. 1952 - Television broadcasting begins in Canada, at Montreal, Quebec. 1953 - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, the first to be televised 1954 - Senator Joseph McCarthy charges that Communists have infiltrated the Central Intelligence Agency 1965 - Vietnam War: The first contingent of Australian combat troops arrives in South Vietnam 1967
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- Jumper (computing)
or 40 jumper pairs, while the final production models typically had just a handful, or sometimes only one. Typically each jumper is assigned and labelled with a number, this number being referred to in an instruction list printed on the motherboard or just in the manual. The recent trend has been to try to eliminate jumpers entirely from hardware devices, by the use of auto-configuration or software-controlled configuration. Configurations may be stored in NVRAM, loaded by a host processor, or negotiated at system initialization time. In some cases, hot pluggable devices may be able to renegotiate their configuration. Jumperless designs have
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- June 2003
Franks and Secretary Rumsfeld following the deaths of 17 family members during the invasion of Iraq Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly formally accuses college student Luke Thompson of creating a fake airline, Mainline Airways, and selling bogus tickets. [1] US Baseball: Pitching against the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Yankee Roger Clemens notches his 4,000th strikeout and his 300th win. June 12, 2003 Zahi Hawass, head of Egypt's Supreme Council for Antiquities, dismisses claim that archaeologists discovered Nefertiti's mummy.[1] The CDC says 54 people in the US may be infected with monkeypox. British Prime Minister Tony Blair reshuffles his Cabinet: the
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- Ill Will and the germs
Ill Will and the germs A comic strip in the Beano. It went from 1988 to 1999. It is about a boy with three germs inside him, Ugly Jack Bacteria, Jeremy Germ and Violet Virus and they are constantly making Will Ill. It was drawn by David Sutherland.
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- Immune system
pass through the barrier offered by skin. There are several class of antimicrobial proteins, e.g. acute phase proteins (C-reactive proteins, for example, binds to the C-protein of S. pneumoniae - enhances phagocytosis and activates complement) and complement. Complements are a very complex group of serum protiens which is activated in a cascade fashion, and there are two pathways of activation - classical and alternative. Only alternative pathway is of significance here though - because classical pathway is activated by the adaptive immune system, the antigen-antibody complex - alternative pathway activates C1,C4,C2,C3,C5 and finally C6 to C9, which forms the membrane attack
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