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Ice Age Extinctions Of The Megafauna
1,668 words... vironments than do smaller animals. Larger animals are safer from predators than small animals are, but it is also harder for them to sustain in trying conditions. Many of the larger animals such as mammoths and bison travel in herds, and that, along with their large size, protects them from predators. However, when the predator is Mother Nature, there is virtually no defense. For modern day elephants, drought is the biggest concern. It can take twenty percent of a herd every year, but the e...
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Air Power And The Gulf War
1,895 wordsAn acknowledged aerospace historian, Mr. Richard P. Hallion is an associate for the Smithsonian Institution employed in the research division. A former Charles A. Lindbergh Professor of Aerospace History, Mr. Hallion has written or edited thirteen other books, including The Wright Brothers: Heirs of Prometheus (1978), Test Pilots: The Frontiersmen of Flight (1988), and The History of Battlefield Air Attack, 1911 - 1945 (1989), while professor at the Army War College. Mr. Hallion writes Storm ove...
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Tropical Rain Forest Tropical Forests
2,490 wordsAguilar, S. and R. Condit. In press. Uso de abodes nation por una comunidad de campesinos en Panama. Biotropica. Appanah, S. and G. Weinland. 1993. A Preliminary Analysis of the 50 -hectare Pasoh Demography Plot: I. Dipterocarpaceae. Research Pamphlet No. 112. Kepong, Malaysia: Forest Research Institute of Malaysia. Appanah, S. , A. H. Gentry, and J. V. La Frankie. 1993. Liana diversity and species richness of Malayan rain forests. Journal of Tropical Forest Science 6 (2): 116 - 123. Ashton, P. ...
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Wright Brothers Kitty Hawk
443 wordsOn December 17, 1953, the fiftieth anniversary of the worlds first airplane flight, the papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright were welcomed into the world with appropriate fanfare, including a picture story in Life magazine. Fred Howard. Wilbur and Orville Wright, A biography of the Wright Brothers At 10: 35 a. m. , Orville made the first heavier-than-air, machine-powered flight in the history of the world. In a flight lasting only 12 seconds and covering just 120 feet, Orville did what men and wo...
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Native Peoples Smithsonian Institution
3,035 wordsDe Soto Legacy of a Conquistador In 1539 Hernando de Soto and five hundred adventurers began on a journey of exploration that would take 4 years and would travel through 10 states in the southeast United States. His goal was to discover a source of wealth, preferably gold, and around his mines establish a settlement. During his travels through La Florida he encountered numerous groups of native peoples, making friends of some and enemies of others. His expedition was not the first in La Florida;...
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