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Thousand Five Hundred Republic Of China
1,767 wordsIn the formative era of Chinese civilization as early as the first millennium b. c. the Chinese thought of the world as all the regions of the heavens, and within the four seas. They called it Tianxia, which literally means under heaven. Because this was a universal term, with an understanding of the inhabited world known to the Chinese at the time, it implicitly meant All Under Heaven. Tianxia was first of the entire physical world, the arena in which human history was acted out (The Chinese Wo...
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Hubble Space Telescope Amount Of Energy
1,880 wordsAn image of the core of the Whirlpool galaxy M 51 taken by the Wide Field Planetary Camera onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. It shows an immense ring of dust and gas which is thought to surround and hide a giant black hole, 1 million times the mass of the Sun, in the center of the galaxy. The ring forms an accretion disc of gas, about 100 light years across, falling toward the black hole. The two brighter areas perpendicular to the widest dark lane are two jets of particles accelerated by the ...
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Shatt Al Arab Iran Iraq War
2,488 wordsIntroduction In 1979, President Bakr resigned under pressure from Hussein, who then became president. Immediately after his succession, Hussein called a Baath Party meeting and had all of his opposition systematically murdered. As president, Hussein continued to reinforce his power base by enlarging security forces and employing family members in the government. One 1984 analysis indicated that 50 percent of Iraqis were either employed by the government or military or had a family member who was...
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One Of The Largest Buenos Aires
1,026 wordsThe capital of the country, Buenos Aires is also Argentina's leading city in population, commerce, and industry. It is located near the Atlantic Ocean coast, on the broad Ro de la Plata, an estuary at the mouth of the Paran and Paraguay rivers. The early Spanish colonists named the city for the "good winds" that brought them to the port. Today about 10 million people live in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, one of the largest in the world. The city proper makes up a federal district, and its ...
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U S History Panama Canal
1,260 wordsAfter the war with Spain at Cuba, the United Stats realized that a faster route was necessary in order to deploy its warships from Pacific Ocean to Atlantic Ocean. It was because the warships in Pacific Ocean had to take a detour around Cape Horn, which is located at the extreme South end of South America, in order to go to the sea area of Cuba. The total distance amounted to 224, 000 kilometers, and this great distance caused great amount of wasted time during the war. (web) Panama Canal was th...
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Terrorist Attacks Nation Wide
776 wordsThe islands of the Republic of the Philippines have many natural resources that could aid in making this new Disney Park which include timber, petroleum, nickel, cobalt, silver, gold, salt, and copper. With its abundance of forests, over 46 % of the Philippines are woodlands; there will be more than enough wood to build rides and / or buildings. The Philippines also have many ways of getting electricity to power the Park. For example, it has hydropower, fossil fuels, and various other ways. Also...
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Washington D C Confederate Troops
1,449 wordsBoth the Union and Confederate armies used balloons for reconnaissance during the American Civil War, marking the first time that balloons were used in the United States for reconnaissance. The professional aeronaut John Wise was the first to receive orders to build a balloon for the Union army. However, the balloon never was used because it escaped its tethers and was shot down to prevent it from falling into Confederate hands. Thaddeus Lowe and John La Mountain both carried out reconnaissance ...
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Percent Of The Land Part Of The Country
1,039 wordsEstonia was found in 3500 BC when the ancient ancestors settled on the Baltic Sea in Northwestern Europe. It is surrounded by the Gulf of Finland on the North, Russia on the east, Latvia on the South, the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Rica on the the west. Tallinn is the capital city, the largest city and most important port. Estonia covers an area of 45 227 square kilometers and has more than 1 500 small and large islands. The biggest islands are Saaremaa Island and Hiiumaa Island. These islands s...
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Gravitational Pull Ocean Bottom
1,386 wordsPhysics of Tsunamis Wendy M. Blevins PS 102 Explorations in Physics Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Abstract This paper will discuss the physics and warning systems of tsunamis, a destructive wave force that researchers have been studying for many years. Tsunamis are different than tides or surface waves because undersea earthquakes, instead of winds or the gravitational pull of the moon or sun, generate them. They can reach speeds of up to 700 kilometers per hour but can be undetected unti...
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00 P M 00 A M
1,270 wordsCABALGATA Do you think riding on a horse eight hours for three days is relaxing and exciting? Poeple that enjoy horseback riding think so. The 'Cabalgata'; in the Northern part of Mexico is a long, exciting, and relaxing horse trail. This horse trail is relaxing for most people because they get off work for three days and drink with their friends. This trail is made for men only, but girls are allowed to join in with them the last day. This event doesn't have an age requirement, but most partici...
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Sherman Was Born 'war Is Hell Grant
749 wordsWilliam T. Sherman SHERMAN, William Tecumseh (1820 - 91). Ranked second only to General Ulysses S. Grant as the greatest Northern commander in the American Civil War, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman was a master of modern warfare. Like Grant, Sherman was born in Ohio when it was a frontier state. He was named Tecumseh for the Shawnee Indian chief who had terrorized that region a few years earlier. Sherman was born on Feb. 8, 1820, in Lancaster, Ohio. His father died when he was 9 years old. Most o...
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Great Wall Of China Report
1,037 wordsThe Great Wall of China is truly one of the greatest architectural achievements in recorded history. The longest structure ever built, it is about 6, 700 kilometers (4, 163 miles) long and made entirely by hand. This wall is said to be visible from the moon. It crosses Northern China, from the East coast to Central China (Karl's, 1). This massive wall is not only one of the ancient wonders of the world, but it also has been the inspiration of many writers and artists. With a history of more than...
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The Building Of American Ballistic Missile Part 1
1,748 wordsTHE BUILDING OF THE AMERICAN BALLISTIC MISSILE SYSTEM This seems to be a picture from the book for children, but it is an image from a report made by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Space Commission. The given report recommends to abrogate the purpose of international laws (highly, the Outer Space Treaty of 1967) that aims at the keeping the space free from war and, induce that the President "have the option to deploy weapons in space. " National Missile Defense, started as Star Wars during ...
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Dust Particles Solar System
1,011 wordsNeptune is the Neptune Neptune Neptune is the outermost planet of the gas giants. It has an equatorial diameter of 49, 500 kilometers (30, 760 miles) and is the eighth planet from the sun. If Neptune were hollow, it could contain nearly 60 Earths. Neptune orbits the Sun every 165 years. It has eight moons, six of which were found by Voyager 2. A day on Neptune is 16 hours and 6. 7 minutes. Neptune was discovered on September 23, 1846 by Johann Gottfried Galle, of the Berlin Observatory. Neptune ...
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Local Government Five Year
666 wordsThis report will Indonesia Indonesia This report will be on the History in Brief of Indonesia, the Government of Indonesia, the island of Java, and the Geography of Indonesia. In early days, the region from India to Japan, including Indonesia, was known to the Europeans as the Indies. Chris Columbus was looking for a westward sea root from Europe to the Indies, when he arrived in America. During 1600 s the Dutch political control began to spread Indonesia. Indonesia declared its independence in ...
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Shih Huang Ti Ming Dynasty
2,969 wordsWorld Civilization II April 17, 1998 The Great Wall of China To the northwest and north of Beijing, a huge, serrated wall zigzags its way to the east and west along the undulating mountains. This is the Great Wall, which is said to be visible from the moon. This massive wall has not only been one of the Ancient Seven Wonders of the World, but it has also been inspiration for many artists, and writers. The building of the Great Wall is one of the biggest tragedy? s, but through this tragedy arose...
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Reduce The Amount Ozone Layer
1,136 wordsOzone derives from the greek word open which means to smell. It was first discovered in 1839 by Christian Friedrich Schonbein who noticed it because of its distinctive acrid smell. He discovered this at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Ozone is merely oxygen, but not the type we breath. Ozone, O 3 has three compounds while oxygen has only two. Ozone is reac- tive, meaning it does not stay still, and wants to go back to its original state, with two compounds, O 2. This is why ozone is harm...
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Time It Takes Surface Of Mars
1,058 wordsMars is the fourth planet from the sun at about 228 million-km (141 million miles) and the last terrestrial planet from the sun. The next five planets in order from the sun are gaseous. Mars follows closely behind Earth but is comparatively smaller, with about half the diameter of Earth and about one-tenth of Earth s mass. Thus the force of gravity on Mars is about one-third of that on Earth. Though it is much smaller, Mars does have the same surface land area as Earth. Other than Earth, Mars po...
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Washington D C Ozone Hole
1,498 wordsThe reappearance of the ozone hole over Antarctica has been a hot topic for scientist around the world. A few of these scientists are the atmospheric physicist Richard D. Mc Peters and several of his colleagues at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt. The ozone hole showed up earlier than expected, and it was wider and thinner. It appeared in mid-August, about two weeks ahead of schedule, and on September 19 reached the record size of 10. 5 million square miles, more than three and ...
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Earths Atmosphere Degrees Celsius
1,874 wordsSaturn is the sixth planet in our solar system and is the second largest planet. The only planet larger then Saturn is Jupiter. Saturn is commonly noted for its phenomenal system of rings surrounding this gaseous planet. It is also one of the outer planets. Saturn's period of rotation is approximately ten and a half hours in Earth hours. Saturn takes about 13 and a half hours less than Earth to rotate. It takes Saturn about 30 years to make revolution around the sun. That is 29 years more than E...
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