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Opposite Sides One Side
1,501 words... triangle, then the triangles are congruent. A line and a plane are perpendicular if and only if they intersect and the line is perpendicular to all lines in the plane that pass through the point of intersection. CPCTC - Corresponding parts of congruent triangles are congruent. Recall that an isosceles triangle has two congruent sides. These congruent sides are called are called legs and the third side is called the base. The angles at the base are called base angles and the angle opposite th...
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Steam Engine One Problem
1,762 wordsAnother worker in applied mathematics belonging to the period under consideration was Heron of Alexandria. His much disputed date, with possibilities ranging from 150 BC to 250 AD, has recently been plausibly placed in the second half of the first century AD. His works on mathematical and physical subjects are so numerous and varied that it is customary to describe him as an encyclopedic writer in these fields. There are reasons to suppose he was an Egyptian with Greek training. At any rate his ...
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Darwin Award Flight Attendants Augusto
515 wordsThe Darwin Awards commemorate individuals who protect our gene pool by making the ultimate sacrifice of their own lives: by eliminating themselves in an extraordinarily idiotic manner, thereby improving our species' chance of long-term survival. In other words, they are cautionary tales about people who kill themselves in really stupid ways, and in doing so, significantly improve the gene pool by eliminating themselves from the human race. These individuals carry out disastrous plans that any av...
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Flying Tigers Plane Caught Jim
443 wordsFlying Tigers is the name of a mercenary group of American pilots that helped defend China and the Burma Road from the bombing of the Japanese during World War II. The name of their planes was Tomahawks, but the Chinese called them Fei Hu for the sharks teeth painted on their planes. Flying Tigers were known as the American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force. The Flying Tigers did not see combat until December 1941 when the Japanese started bombing China. Jim Gordon, the leader of the Flyi...
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World Trade Center Al Qaeda
3,393 words... knew three weeks before 9 - 11 that two hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, who were involved in the bombing of the USS Cole in November 2000, were in the United States. Although their names were listed in a watchlist of potential terrorists, which contained names of people for which the entry to the US is forbidden because of their terrorist connections, al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar were not stopped at their entry into the US neither were they arrested later. Although the CIA knew t...
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Three Dimensional Failure Rate
1,488 words... based on weather, obtain accurate demographic data using small samples, compute probabilities, use tests of significance to determine if a lot of weapons with a given failure rate had indeed come from an armorer clan whose weapons have a historically known failure rate, and so on. Unsophisticated devotees of Hr or Was would presumably consider such calculations heretical, but it seems very Tkumelani that the Inner Doctrines of these Temples would include a great body of work in statistical t...
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Viet Cong Automatic Weapons
1,813 wordsIntroduction My name is Jack Andrews and I still live with my parents, Robert and Marie Andrews, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I have one brother named John Andrews, and he is married and is living in California. These past few months my dad has been trying to persuade me to join the Army, like John did. I have given it some serious thought, and I am really thinking about joining. After all, I will get in better shape and it will be fun shooting fully automatic weapons. There is only one proble...
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Viet Cong Automatic Weapons
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Human Resource Management Prentice Hall
3,352 wordsIntroduction We live in an era when the only constant is change. Everything in our lives, no matter how big or small important or not changes rapidly. Companies therefore wouldn t escape from this reality. It is common in literature and as a saying that the organization, which will not adjust to its internal and external environment and moreover to its changes is doomed. As long as everything is working perfect and responds to the environmental challenges there is apparently no problem. However ...
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Spirit Of St Charles Lindbergh
779 wordsA small one-engined plane with The Spirit of St. Louis painted on the side lands at Le Bourget field, in the midst of thousands of cheering spectators. A tall, thin, sandy haired, twenty-five-year-old man emerges from the cockpit and timidly smiles. Modestly, he says well, I made it. (http: // 141. 224. 128. 4) What this man has just accomplished is something nobody had done before: fly nonstop over the Atlantic ocean alone. This was one of the many achievements of this man we call Lindbergh, wh...
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Spirit Of St Charles Augustus
886 words(1902 Charles Lindbergh Charles Lindbergh (1902 1974) Charles Augustus Lindbergh was born on Feb. 4, 1902, in Detroit. He grew up on a farm near Little Falls, Minnesota. He was the son of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Sr. , a lawyer, and his wife, Evangeline Land Lodge. Lindbergh's father served as a U. S. congressman from Minnesota from 1907 to 1917. In childhood, Lindbergh showed exceptional mechanical ability. At the age of 18 years, he entered the University of Wisconsin to study engineering. ...
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Paris France First Night
635 wordsMarch 15 -Day One the group will be leaving Orlando International Airport by plane on Flight 212 leaving for Madrid, Spain. Price = $ 418. 00 March 18 -Day four the group will be leaving Madrid by plane on flight 86 for Paris, France. Price = $ 288. 00 March 21 - Day seven the group will be leaving Paris International by plane on flight 124 for Geneva, Switzerland. Price = $ 130. 00 March 24 - Day ten the group will leave Geneva by plane on flight 584 for Vienna, Austria. Price = $ 150. 00 March...
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00 A M Atomic Bomb
1,365 wordsA bright light filled the plane. We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud... boiling up, mushrooming. (web) What could cause such devastation? Fat Man and Little Boy, the bombs that ended World War II and brought the world into the nuclear age. In September 1940, after the fall of France, Hitler and Mussolini made an alliance with Japan. The Tripartite Pact provided the right of entry of Japanese troops into Indochina. Japan quietly extended her influence in t...
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Number Theory Pierre De
2,128 wordsWhile Descartes was laying the foundations of analytical geometry, the same subject was occupying the attention of another and not less distinguished Frenchman. This was Pierre de Fermat, who was born near Montauban in 1601, and died at Castres on January 12, 1665. Fermat was the son of a leather-merchant, growing up being educated at home. He earned himself a name later in his life by making contacts with some of the most important people in mathematics during that time period. In this paper I ...
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Fibre Optic Endoscopes Fibre Optic Endoscopy Fiber
4,917 wordsFiber optics produced by special methods from silica glass and quartz which replaced copper wire is very useful in telecommunications, long distance telephone lines and in examining internal parts of the body (endoscopy). Equipment for photography is available with all current fiber-optic endoscopes. Through a process known as total internal reflection, light rays beamed into the fiber can propagate within the core for great distances with remarkably little attenuation or reduction in intensity....
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Pass Through A Common Point Pass Through A Common Forces
332 wordsBy possessing an understanding of Newtons Laws, following these three laws of graphical solutions, and understanding vector algebra you can solve most engineering static problems. Systems of Force Systems of force acting on objects in equilibrium can be classified as either concurrent or nonconcurrent and as either coplanar or non coplanar. This gives us four general categories of systems. The first category, concurrent-coplanar forces occur when the lines of action of all forces lie in the same...
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Rock And Roll Helter Skelter
3,302 wordsAllegory of American Pie by Don McLean A Piece of the Pie Ask anyone what was the defining moment in the rock history of the 1960 s was and all you will get is a one word answer: Woodstock. The three day rock festival that defined an era was only one of many music festivals of the 60 s. But Woodstock has come to symbolize, an era of peaceful, free- loving, drug- taking hippie youth, carefree before harsher realities hit (Layman 40). The Woodstock festival ended a century filled with many metamor...
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Gary Paulsen Heart Attack
438 wordsGary Paulsen Hatchet Hatchet Gary Paulsen 9 - 26 - 00 13 year old Brian Robinson is going to visit his father. His parents are divorced and his father lives in Canada. Brian has to take a plane to Canada. His mother gives him a gift before he leaves and it is a hatchet that fits on his belt so Brian puts it there. Brian meets the pilot and he is a nice man. Brian and the pilot get ready to leave and then Brian remembers that he saw a man kissing his mom but he does not let it bother him. Brian l...
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19 Th Century 20 Th Century
4,737 wordsPhotography is a technique of producing permanent images on sensitized surfaces by means of the photochemical action of light or other forms of radiant energy. In todays society, photography plays important roles as an information medium, as a tool in science and technology, and as an art form, and it is also a popular hobby. It is essential at every level of business and industry, being used in advertising, documentation, photojournalism, and many other ways. Scientific research, ranging from t...
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Atlantic Ocean Wasn T
487 wordsBoeing 700 By: Jack Richards The Boeing 700 s are very capable of handling duties in the commercial and military world. The Boeing 700 s are capable of handling many tasks in the commercial and military world. With the introduction of the 707 in the late fifties to the most recent 777 in the early nineties the, 700 s have dominated the commercial world for five decades. They are a line of aircraft that are capable of handling many roles from basic civilian transport to various military needs. Th...
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