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The eight official actions taken by NATO in response to the attacks included Operation Eagle Assist and Operation Active Endeavour, a naval operation in the Mediterranean Sea designed to prevent the movement of terrorists or weapons of mass destruction, and to enhance the security of shipping in general, which began on 4 October 2001.
UTF-8 is a variable-length character encoding standard used for electronic communication. Defined by the Unicode Standard, the name is derived from Unicode Transformation Format – 8-bit.
Public funds for education would be available as school vouchers with no strings attached, even for parents sending their children to private or religious schools. [24] Cuts would be made to the funding for free school meals. The Head Start program that provides services to children of low-income families would be eliminated.
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Lenticular print showing double images and ghosting Double images on the relief and in depth. Double images are usually caused by an exaggeration of the 3D effect from some angles of view, or an insufficient number of frames. Poor design can lead to doubling, small jumps, or a fuzzy image, especially on objects in relief or in depth.
A famous painting of his from 1626, now called Edwards's Dodo as it was once owned by the ornithologist George Edwards, has since become the standard image of a dodo. It is housed in the Natural History Museum, London. The image shows a particularly fat bird and is the source for many other dodo illustrations. [50] [51]
In 2007, in preparation for producing a print version, the English Wikipedia introduced an assessment scale of the quality of articles. [42] Articles are rated by WikiProjects. The range of quality classes begins with "Stub" (very short pages), followed by "Start", "C" and "B" (in increasing order of quality).
Machu Picchu [a] is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). [8] Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", [9] it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire.