FACTOID # 51: Russia won the first World Air Games, held in Turkey in 1997. Events included hang-gliding, sky-surfing, and ballooning.
 
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Dock can refer to several things: Places for the transfer of people and materials to, from, or between different forms of transport or working with transport: A maritime dock. ... Mooring may refer to: Mooring (watercraft), any device used to hold secure an object by means of cables, anchors, or lines Mooring (North Frisian dialect) spoken in Germany Arthur Mooring, British Resident to the Sultan of Zanzibar Leeland and Jack Mooring, members of the Christian band Leeland The Moorings, New... U.S. Navy submarine USS Greeneville in dry dock following collision with a fishing boat. ... Docking is used as a term for the intentional removal of part of an animals tail or ears. ... Docking is used as a term for the intentional removal of part of an animals tail or ears. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Disfigurement. ... Computational molecular docking is a research technique for predicting whether one molecule will bind to another, usually a protein. ...

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botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Docks - Herb Profile and Information (1720 words)
The name Dock is applied to a widespread tribe of broad-leaved wayside weeds, having roots possessing astringent qualities united in some with a cathartic principle, rendering them valuable as substitutes for Rhubarb, a plant of the same family.
All the Docks resemble our Garden Rhubarb more or less, both in their general characteristics and in possessing much tannin.Most of them furnish rumicin, or crysophanic acid, which is useful in chronic scrofulous disorders.
Rumicin is the active principle of the Yellow Dock, and from the root, containing Chrysarobin, a dried extract is prepared officially, of which from 1 to 4 grains may be given for a dose in a pill.
Top 10 Reasons the Apple Dock Sucks (2226 words)
The Dock is akin to a brightly-colored set of children's blocks, ideal for your first words—dog, cat, run, Spot, run—but not too effective for displaying the contents of War and Peace.
The Dock team apparently did not hear about any of these goings-on, because color is completely ignored by the Dock, both in the icon and the text, eliminating yet another attribute.
The Dock, on the other hand, is as big when "closed" as it is when "open," unless you have magnification turned on, which causes some of us to become sea-sick.
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