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Grolier Electronic Publishing 19 Th Century
1,437 wordsAn elevator is a mechanism for moving people and freight from level to level in a building or any other structure. The first elevator-like structure was built in 236 BC by the Archives. This construction was a hoist operated by ropes and pulleys. However, the first pragmatic elevator was not developed until the 19 th century. Though sensible, this elevator has been modified many times throughout the course of history and is still updated with all of the new advancements in math and technology. F...
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2 H 2 Golf Club
1,187 wordsEly Callaway founded the Callaway Golf Company, originally called Hickory Stick USA, INC. , in 1982. The company started out specializing in hickory-shafted putters and wedges that were demonstrably superior and pleasingly different. In 1988 the company expanded its product line to include a new set of irons that it designated as the S 2 H 2 (Short, Strait, Hollow Home). This design combined a cavity back iron with an innovative with perimeter weighting, a progressive offset and a bore-through s...
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Ill Effects Man Made
1,364 words... in your mouth for 15 minutes. DO NOT SWALLOW. 11. If no burning, itching, numbing, stinging, or other irritation occurs during the 15 minutes, swallow the food. 12. Wait 8 hours. If any ill effects occur during this period, induce vomiting and drink a lot of water. 13. If no ill effects occur, eat. 25 cup of the same plant prepared the same way. Wait another 8 hours. If no ill effects occur, the plant part as prepared is safe for eating. WARNING Test all parts of the plant for edibility, as ...
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Divided Into Three Bow And Arrow
1,675 wordsThe year is 1232. Somewhere in northern Europe, a Saxon castle is under attack. In the fields for miles around, thousands of soldiers viciously fight. Metal strikes metal, arrows strike flesh, rock strikes rock. No matter how good these soldiers are, the battle will ultimately be decided by weapons. These weapons can be divided into three categories. Melee, or hand-to- hand weapons, include clubs, swords, daggers, saxes, hand axes, and some spears. Small-scale missile weapons include other spear...
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Filling Slot Bearings Single Row Bearing Balls
424 wordsThe object of ball bearings (and roller bearings) is the substitution of pure rolling motion for plain sliding friction. Ball Bearings rely on the rolling motion of hardened steel balls to absorb loads. This rolling motion produces far less friction than the sliding motion. These steel balls are held in circular rows between an outer and inner ring, which have raceways, or slots, grooved into them to guide the balls. Ball bearings are available in both filling-slot and no filling-slot types. Oth...
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God Or Goddess 8 Th Century
1,619 wordsGreek architecture begins with the simple houses of the Dark Age and culminates in the monumental temples of the Classical period and the elaborately planned cities and sanctuaries of the Hellenistic period. As in any time or place, the raw materials available and the technologies developed to utilize them largely determined the nature of the architecture. The principal materials of Greek architecture were wood, used for supports and roof beams; unbaked brick, used for walls, especially of priva...
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5 Th Century North And South
1,653 words... regions of this early temple are significant. With 6 columns across the front and back and 16 on each side (counting the corner columns twice), the temple has a ratio of length to width of nearly three to one. As time passed, Greek architects felt these proportions were too elongated. They progressively reduced the temples length relative to its width, until by the mid- 5 th century the ratio was slightly more than two to one. The Parthenon in Athens (447 - 432 BC), for example, has 17 colum...
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Bypass Ratio Engines Low Bypass Ratio Engines Turbine
1,043 wordsThe idea of utilizing the physical principle of reaction on a large scale by means of rockets is usually attributed to China in the thirteenth century. Not until after the Second World War, however, did rocket technology mature to a state which made the idea of space travel a practical possibility, owing largely to a giant step forward during the war itself. Although earliest models of the steam turbine date back as early as the 17 th century, practical applications of the turbine engine had to ...
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Amount Of Energy Combustion Chamber
984 words... s, but is also employed in auxiliary power units to provide power for aircraft ground operation. The compressor of a turbo shaft engine first raises the pressure of the incoming air, which is then guided into the combustion chamber. After being mixed with vaporized fuel and burned, the hot gas expands completely through two separate turbines. The first turbine drives the compressor; the second delivers horsepower to drive the helicopter rotor. The gas is finally released through an exhaust d...
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Combustion Chamber Kinetic Energy
2,012 words... tion. A proportion of the compressed air is permanently bled, either through circumferential ly arranged bleed manifolds or through hollow stator vanes. Bleed air is used for aircraft systems such as cabin pressurization and heating, wing leading edge de-icing, and for electronic systems temperature control. The engine itself also requires bleed air both for de-icing the front frame support struts and nose cowl, and for cooling the turbine frame and blades. Guide vanes are used to impose a d...
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Greek Temples Greek Architecture
1,054 wordsThe Greeks thought of their Gods as having the same needs as human beings, they believed that the Gods needed somewhere to live on Earth. Temples were built as the gods' earthly homes. The basic design of temples developed from the royal halls of the Maycenaean Age. A Mycenaean palace consisted of a number of buildings often more than one story high, grouped around a central courtyard. It was brightly painted, both inside and out. In each palace there was a large hall called a megaron, where the...
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One Whole Piece Stick Is One Whole Piece Hockey
496 wordsHockey is one of the most watched and now most played sports in the world. It is also, one of the most expensive, when it comes to buying equipment. Hockey players wear lots of equipment. This equipment is a shoulder pad, helmet, shin guards, hockey pants, a cup, elbow pads, gloves, skates, and use a hockey stick to play the game. The hockey stick is the most rebought piece of equipment you use. There are even three different types of hockey sticks. These are wood, graphite, and aluminum. Wood w...
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Game Of Golf Left Shoulder
1,551 wordsThe Fundamental Golf Swing As I ran up and down the tee line, I saw my father slamming the ground with a golf club. I could not understand why he was always so angry when practicing. I stopped running and watched him closely, studying his body as he elegantly whipped the club through the air. Sweat was dripping from his nose, his shirt soaked completely through. I was six years old and in awe of this man. At home he was just dad, but on the golf course, he was someone else. He was an athlete. I ...
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Fossil Fuels Generate Electricity
1,279 wordsHYDROELECTRIC POWER The idea of electricity started around 500 B. C. as the Greek philosopher Thales experimented with amber, a fossilized tree sap, by rubbing it and observing that it starts to attract certain types of materials, this is the first documented study of static electricity. In 1646 the term electricity was coined by Walter Charlton to describe the attraction of the different materials. Throughout the 1700 s many advancements in the study of electricity were made to include the idea...
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Divided Into Three Bow And Arrow
1,555 wordsMedieval Weapons Weapons are the tools of today and the death of tomorrow. At one time all weapons were tools. They were a means of survival among a harsh planet and cruel animals. The age of knights changed the true meaning of these tools forever. They now possessed the power of life and the power of death. Europe was an ever-growing bushel of civilizations. These civilizations were always under threat from other growing civilizations. At this point tools became weapons. Weapons are the tools o...
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Literary Techniques Gender Equality
2,666 wordsAlthough feminism is a well-known and accepted political idea in American culture, it was hardly recognized and rarely expressed in the Greek patriarchal society of 431 B. C. Euripides, a renowned playwright of the time, saw faults in the Greek society and so he voiced his opinion to a wide audience by writing and displaying brilliant tragedies. Perhaps one of Euripides bolder accomplishments was achieved in the production of the tragedy Medea, which expressed the radical idea of feminism and re...
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Quot Quot Muriel Rukeyser
2,219 wordsAs On " Power" Robert Shulman As she gathers momentum, Rukeyser amplifies the religious and political implications of " Alloy" in the crucial sequence, " Power" and " The Dam. " Before she moves into the depths, first of the powerhouse, then of the dam, in " Power" (pp. 49 - 53) Rukeyser draws on the resources of classical poetic forms and language to bring alive the setting: " the quick sun, " the warm mountains, a vital, serialized la...
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Muriel Rukeyser Quot Quot
4,510 wordsOn " Testimony" An Essay By Michael Davidson Essay, On " Testimony" An Essay By Michael Davidson Note: This is excerpted from a longer essay on Reznikoff. DOCUMENTARY CULTURE The title of my chapter is taken from Muriel Rukeyser's " Poem out of Childhood" (1935), which describes the shift among writers of her generation from " Sappho" to " Sacco, " from the expatriate salon culture of the 1920 s to 1930 s activism inaugurated by the Sacco-Vanzett...
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Slide It Into Your Mouth Big Vein Hand
668 wordsgentle stroking with the hand. especially using the fingertips along the underside of the shaft. Then, wrap your hand, again gently, around the shaft and softly stroke it from tip to base. lie between his legs, and put your hand underneath it Take the tip of your tongue, and lick up the center along that big vein. youll know its wonderful by the reaction. After a bit, when you get to the tip, slip it into your mouth, and then, as if sucking a lollipop, slide it back out again. Then each time you...
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Telling The Truth Time Machine
1,257 wordsSCENE I: Setting: On the set of Time Voyager, a new television series. Characters: ANN Announcer ROMEO Romeo ANN: Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome again to this weeks edition of Time Voyager. In case this is the first time you have tuned in and are unfamiliar with the concept, let me explain it to you. Modern technology today allows us to go back in time, as you probably know already. We do just that go back and visit those times and places that had so much mystery, so much darkness, and so little ...
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