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An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident & emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the acute care of patients who present without prior appointment; either by their own means or by that of an ambulance. The emergency department is usually found in a hospital or other primary care center.
Due to the unplanned nature of patient attendance, the department must provide initial treatment for a broad spectrum of illnesses and injuries, some of which may be life-threatening and require immediate attention. In some countries, emergency departments have become important entry points for those without other means of access to medical care.
The emergency departments of most hospitals operate 24 hours a day, although staffing levels may be varied in an attempt to reflect patient volume.
Accident services were already provided by workmen’s compensation plans, railway companies, and municipalities in Europe and the United States by the late mid-nineteenth century, but the first specialized trauma care center in the world was opened in 1911 in the United States at the University of Louisville Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, and was developed by surgeon Arnold Griswold during the 1930s. Griswold also equipped police and fire vehicles with medical supplies and trained officers to give emergency care while en route to the hospital.
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In grammar, a conjunction (abbreviated CONJ or CNJ) is a part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses that are called the conjuncts of the conjoining construction. The term discourse marker is mostly used for conjunctions joining sentences. This definition may overlap with that of other parts of speech, so what constitutes a “conjunction” must be defined for each language. In general, a conjunction is an invariable grammatical particle and it may or may not stand between the items in a conjunction.
The definition may also be extended to idiomatic phrases that behave as a unit with the same function, e.g. “as well as”, “provided that”.
A simple literary example of a conjunction: “the truth of nature, and the power of giving interest”. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria)
Conjunctions may be placed at the beginning of sentences: “But some superstition about the practice persists”.
Coordinating conjunctions, also called coordinators, are conjunctions that join, or coordinate, two or more items (such as words, main clauses, or sentences) of equal syntactic importance. In English, the mnemonic acronym FANBOYS can be used to remember the coordinators for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so. These are not the only coordinating conjunctions; various others are used, including:ch. 9:p. 171 “and nor” (British), “but nor” (British), “or nor” (British), “neither” (“They don’t gamble; neither do they smoke”), “no more” (“They don’t gamble; no more do they smoke”), and “only” (“I would go, only I don’t have time”). Types of coordinating conjunctions include cumulative conjunctions, adversative conjunctions, alternative conjunctions, and illative conjunctions.
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The Abu Nidal Organization (ANO) is the most common name for the Palestinian group Fatah–The Revolutionary Council (Fatah al-Majles al-Thawry). The ANO is named after its founder Abu Nidal. It was created by a split from Yasser Arafat’s Fatah faction of the PLO in 1974. The group has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel and the European Union.
The ANO was originally formed as a result of the 1974 Rejectionist Front split in the PLO, after Arafat’s Fatah had pushed through amendments of the PLO’s goals, which were seen as a step towards compromise with Israel. Abu Nidal then moved to Ba’athist Iraq where he set up the ANO, which soon began a vicious string of terrorist attacks.
It hasn’t clearly defined its ideological position, but was clearly opposed to any form of compromise or negotiation with Israel. It is known as one of the most uncompromisingly militant Palestinian groups ever. It had an estimated membership of several hundred, but its strength today is not known.
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+ (pronounced “plus”) is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter, Ed Sheeran, released on 9 September 2011 by Asylum Records and Atlantic Records. The album marks Sheeran’s commercial breakthrough, having previously released five EPs independently. Jake Gosling and Sheeran produced the majority of the album, with additional production by American hip hop producer, No I.D..
Media interest surrounding + was fuelled significantly by its two preceding singles—”The A Team” and “You Need Me, I Don’t Need You”—which peaked at No. 3 and No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart respectively. “Lego House” was released on 11 November 2011 as the album’s third single and emulated the chart success of its predecessors, peaking at No. 5 in the UK. Three further singles—”Drunk”, “Small Bump”, and “Give Me Love”—were released throughout the year, all charting within the top 25 of the UK Singles Chart.
It was met with generally positive reviews from music critics. Upon release, + debuted atop of the UK Albums Chart with first-week sales exceeding 102,000 copies. The album performed well on the US Billboard 200, peaking at No. 5, selling 42,000 copies. The album was the highest debut for a British artist’s first studio album in the US since Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed a Dream in 2009. + is the 8th best selling album of the decade in the United Kingdom.
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