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Drums are basic to African music.

Even in the army they teach basic navigation.

An estimate of the basic level of sustenance then necessary for human survival has been judged at 2200 calories per day.

If your primary concerns just basic types of record-keeping……

And it wasn’t an impediment as far as sort of basic engineering was concerned either, um, to their ability to construct buildings, roads, stuff like that.

So one of the earliest written text sub mathematics, that has Zero, negative numbers, even some sort of basic algebra, is written in South Asia in the early 7th century.

Even in basic engineering.

Suppose you want to predict the location of a car on a road 1 minute from now. You need two basic pieces of information: where the car is now, and how fast it is moving. If the car is now passing Smith Road and heading north at 1 mile per minute, it will be 1 mile north of Smith Road in 1 minute.

Now, suppose you want to predict the weather. Again, you need two basic types of information: the current weather and how weather changes from one moment to the next. You could attempt to predict the weather by creating a "model world.” For example, you could overlay a globe of the Earth with graph paper and then specify the current temperature, pressure, cloud cover, and wind within each square. These are your starting points, or initial conditions. Next, you could input all the initial conditions into a computer, along with a set of equations (physical laws) that describe the processes that can change weather from one moment to the next.

He posed a very basic question: "What is the world made of? "

Many of the biographies are extremely detailed with all the basic facts about where the artists were born, where they'd worked, who their teachers were and so on.

A basic question of geology is how all these new minerals came into being.

Basic Montessori equipment can be divided into a number of major subject areas such as practical life, mathematics and what is called sensorial.

That's DOW, D-O-W, who advocated focusing on simple basic forms,

So early in a season, or when you first take a new job, establish a few basic ground rules for what is acceptable and non-acceptable behavior.

Although the ingredients are merely wedges and lines, there are hundreds of combinations of these basic forms that stand for different sounds or words.

There was some natural variation to accommodate the size and shape of the site, but as far as the basic elements went, those remained constant.

ANS is a very basic, innate ability.

Even something as basic as counting has to be taught.

Bartering was a basic trade mechanism for many thousands of years; often sporadic and usually based on notions of reciprocity, it involved the mutual exchange of commodities or objects between individuals or groups.

The campsite provided only basic facilities.

They look pretty basic you know, just a little moss on a rock.

One of the most basic requirements for any form of angling is a sharp hook.

The basic retirement pension will go up by £7.95 a week...