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Beneath The Surface Mauna Loa
1,512 wordsWhich are the biggest (tallest and largest volume) and smallest volcanoes on Earth? The island of Hawaii is probably the largest volcano on earth. From its base (on the floor of the Pacific Ocean) to the summit of Mauna Kea (about 13 000 ft) is some 30 000 ft i. e. higher than Everest. The island comprises several coalescing volcanoes including Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea and Kilauea. Mauna Loa alone has an estimated volume of 40 000 km 3. It is impossible to say which is the smallest volcano since the...
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Hydrogen Bomb Radiation Sickness
1,381 words... es as many cases of severe burns as there are burn beds in the whole of North America. A whole year's supply of blood for transfusion would be needed immediately, and of course is not available in storage nor could it be collected from volunteers in a few days. The injured who reached hospitals would have to be assayed for radioactivity, for the safety of the staff, which would cause a serious bottle-neck and delay in most hospitals. The result of this huge overload of cases is that most of ...
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Bay Of Bengal Indus Civilization India
1,114 wordsOfficially Republic Of India, Hindi Bharat or Bharatavarsha country that takes up most of South Asia. It is a constitutional republic consisting of 25 states, each with a substantial degree of control over its own activities, and 7 less fully empowered union territories. The capital is New Delhi. With more than one-sixth of the world's total population, India is the second most populous country, after China of course, we learned about that 2 units ago. The land of India -- together with Banglade...
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Millions Of People Labour Camps
1,469 wordsPRISON SYSTEM IN SIBERIA My project is dedicated to description of the history of Siberia as a place to where send prisoners -- from the days of Ivan the Terrible until today. I will tell about the reasons for choosing Siberia as place of exile, the system of prisons and conditions in Siberian prisons. Choosing Siberia as a Place of Exile As with other Western powers that gained colonies overseas, the acquisition of Siberia led to making it a place of exile. Criminal and political prisoners had ...
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Air Resistance Tyres And Friction
1,870 wordsDragsters use a combination of large wide tyres or the rear and small narrow tyres on the front this combination is used for the following reasons: The front wheels: The front wheels are very narrow. This is so a minimum of air resistance or drag affects the dragster with lower drag better acceleration an in turn a better top speed can be achieved all leading to a better pass (race time). Now lets try to understand the concept of air resistance and drag. A basic example is placing your hand out ...
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Play An Important Role Five Hundred
1,837 words... sly mentioned. Also low tyre pressures below 20 psi (pounds per square inch) can be run to squat the tyre down onto the road and form a larger footprint. However with lower tyre pressures there is less force holding the tyre in shape. When under extreme force in the horizontal plane (such as in cornering) the rubber will elastically deform and cause heat to be generated. This heat is advantageous in that it causes a physical change in the rubber and it becomes soft and sticky. This translate...
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The United States And Normandy Invasion
1,352 wordsThe year was 1944, and the United States had now been an active participant in the war against Nazi Germany for almost three and a half years. During this time, numerous battles had occurred which were fought with determination and intensity on both sides. Amongst the many invasions of World War II, there is one day which stands out more in the minds of many American soldiers than the others. That day was June 6, 1944, more commonly known as D Day, part of the invasion of Normandy, known as "Ope...
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June 6 1944 Barbed Wire
1,400 words... ea of having to attack Omaha, but he knew it had to be done. Rommel took full advantage of what he learned from defending frontal infantry assaults during the First World War. He heavily mined the coastline, and the shore. He placed extensive amounts of barbed wire leading up to the hills. He placed machine guns at angles to have better shots at all points of the beach. He also added all types of weapons to cover all possible weaknesses in the German posts. He added mortars and artillery pie...
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Began To Talk Corn Stalks Dont
1,691 wordsThe air was beginning to cool, the days warmth a thing of the past. Stars shone from up above, and she was thankful for small favours. Their soft glow was comforting on the lonely country road she was travelling, which was nearly pitch dark now. Fields of corn grew thick on either side of her. Dark shadows, as tall as herself, thick enough to conceal someone, sparse enough to move around in. She remembered childhood days spent playing hide and seek in the stalks. They were good hiding places. Sh...
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Dutch And Spanish Seafarers Dutch And Spanish Australia
1,261 wordsThe first Europeans to find Australia were Dutch and Spanish seafarers that arrived in Australia sometime during the 1600 -hundreds, but they weren't the first people except the aboriginals who had come to Australia. Chinese sailors had visited it in the 1200 -hundreds. The Dutch and Spanish seafarers thought that it was part of an undiscovered continent - "a Great South land." They didn't explore Australia. It was a British seafarer who explored the continent in the late 1700 -hundreds. James C...
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House Of Commons Air Force
1,279 words... eter's. After 35 minutes, the airplane landed. The first flight was a success, and only two micro-switches had failed to respond. Zus only complaint was that there was no clock in the cockpit to tell the time. Upon leaving the craft, he was hoisted on the shoulders of the crowd like a hero. Crawford Gordon with Canadian flying legend John McCurdy, and Roy Dobson of Hawker-Siddeley, attending the roll-out. On August 23 rd the aircraft was taken to supersonic speeds for the first time. That we...
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Underground Water Tap Water
1,170 wordsWater is an essential resource and is, fortunately, the most abundant resource on Earth. About three quarters of the Earth is covered by water, including oceans, rivers, lakes and glaciers. Of this water, however, only about three percent is fresh, with the remainder ruined by contamination such as salt and pollution. Australia is the driest inhabited continent on Earth. The country of Australia is made up of mostly dry or desert lands and is classed as semi-arid or arid. About eighty percent of...
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San Andreas Fault San Francisco
1,028 wordsThe San Francisco Earthquake Earthquake The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 was ranks as one of the most significant earthquakes of all times. The quake occurred on April 18, 1906 at approximately 5: 12 a. m. (local time. ) Rupturing the northernmost 430 kilometres of the San Andreas fault from northwest of San Juan Baptists to the triple junction at Cape Mendocino. The foreshore, a minor shock before the earthquake occurred with enough force to be felt throughout the San Francisco Bay area, th...
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Bay Of Bengal Arabian Sea India
1,113 wordsWhats up in India Officially Republic Of India, Hindi Bharat or Bharatavarsha country that takes up most of South Asia. It is a constitutional republic consisting of 25 states, each with a substantial degree of control over its own activities, and 7 less fully empowered union territories. The capital is New Delhi. With more than one-sixth of the worlds total population, India is the second most populous country, after China of course, we learned about that 2 units ago. The land of India together...
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Millions Of People Labour Camps
1,459 wordsPRISON SYSTEM IN Siberia project is dedicated to description of the history of Siberia as a place to where send prisoners from the days of Ivan the Terrible until today. I will tell about the reasons for choosing Siberia as place of exile, the system of prisons and conditions in Siberian prisons. Choosing Siberia as a Place of Exile As with other Western powers that gained colonies overseas, the acquisition of Siberia led to making it a place of exile. Criminal and political prisoners had been s...
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