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Shroud Of Turin Carbon Dating
2,743 wordsIntroduction: Millions of words have been written about the remarkable cloth preserved at Turin. More recently, most of these writings dealt with one basic question, was it the actual winding sheet of the crucified Christ, bearing an imprint of His body? Or was the whole thing a gigantic hoax? A fantastic forgery of the Middle Ages? Erudite men have lined up on both sides of that compelling query. Some of the facts about the Holy Shroud have something to do with the presence of human blood and o...
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Grapes Of Wrath Huckleberry Finn
1,019 wordsAmerica has been called the melting pot of the world; this mixture of cultures and people has created a unique blend known only to America. The American people have themselves adapted this blend of cultures into something particular to certain areas of the country; two examples of this are the traditions of the slave states along the Mississippi River as are told by Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and the destruction of an old way of life for farmers and their quest for a new l...
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Da Vinci Operating Room
832 wordsJust as computers revolutionized the later half of the twentieth century, the field of robotics has the promise to equally alter the way we live in the twenty first century. We have already seen how robots have modified the manufacturing of cars and other customer goods by streamlining and speeding up the assembly lines. Robots have also enabled us to see places that humans are not yet able to visit, such as other planets and depths of the ocean never before explored. And just as computer contro...
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Wrought Iron Cast Iron
2,384 wordsIn 1851 Great Britain was arguably the leader of the industrial revolution and feeling very secure in that ideal. The Great Exhibition of 1851 in London was conceived to symbolize this industrial, military and economic superiority of Great Britain. Just representing the feats of Britain itself would have excluded many of the technological achievements pioneered by the British in its many colonies and protectorates, so it was decided to make the exhibit truly international with invitations being ...
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Post Civil War E L Doctorow
1,145 wordsLiterary Criticisms on The Waterworks by E. L. Doctorow Literary Criticisms (mostly book reviews) on the novel The Waterworks, by E. L. Doctorow focus on different topics. One talks of the author and his style in writing the novel. Another describes Doctorow's love for New York city, which can be seen throughout the pages of his various novels. There is one that discusses the aspects of Utopia in the novel. Also, The New Yorker has an interview with him discussing his work. Ted Solotaroff, in Th...
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