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In Microsoft Internet Explorer, you can view the security (SSL) certificate by following these steps: Right-click your mouse on any secure page within the site (any page beginning with “HTTPS://” with the small lock symbol displayed in the lower righthand corner). Click “Properties” from...
Eladio has been hired to watch over the hunting grounds of Don Francisco’s estate, somewhere in rural Spain. The estate is divided into ten hunting stands, spaced far enough apart to avoid incidents. After three years of service, Don Carlos — Don Francisco’s second in command — offers ...
Recently, the Okeanos Explorer has been on an exploration there. Remotely operated vehicles sent out from it are taking videos of life in its deepest, darkest areas. Scientists around the world, along with the general public, can watch the videos in real time. These videos are showing the ...
we carried out the TRIDENT pathfinder experiment (TRIDENT Explorer, T-REX for short). With T-REX, we measured the optical properties of the seawater and also quantified the oceanographic conditions at the chosen site, including water current, temperature, salinity and radioactivity (Methodsand Exten...
In the Western Han Dynasty,with diplomat and explorer Zhang Qian (7) opening(open) up the routes to the western regions,silk graced countries in Central Asia,later extending its reach to other parts of Eurasia and beyond.Its name marked (8) exactly(exact) China's majo...
All day we skirted Lake Champlain, into which the old French explorer first found his way, and where he made the dreadful mistake of mixing in Indian warfare, which brought the whole bloodthirsty vendetta of the five nations upon the young French settlements. Up at the head of the lake we...
South of Kalgoorlie the Great Eastern Highway runs 190km to Norseman, at the western end of theEyre Highway. The highway is named after the explorer Edward John Eyre, who crossed the southern edge of the continent in 1841, a gruelling eight-month trek that would have cost him his life...
Colorado can reach a surface temperature of up to 120 degrees. Many of the desert creatures that call the park home use ephemeral pools in rocks as their main water source. Some of the canyon's formations are up to 500 million years old, and contain sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous ...
(famous)explorer and imperial diplomat(外交家)during the period of the Western Han Dynasty.Zhang Qian in ancient China is regarded as "the first Chinese stepping to the world". In 139 BC,Zhang Qian was sent by Emperor Wu of Han to the Western Regions to build a military...