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Feet Per Second Gulf Of Mexico
1,083 wordsJohn M. Barry's Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, takes us back 70 years to a society that most of us would hardly recognize. In 1927, the Mississippi River flooded 27, 000 square miles from Illinois and Missouri south to the Gulf of Mexico. No one expected the government to help the victims. President Calvin Coolidge even refused to visit the area. As a result, the flood created and destroyed leaders: Herbert Hoover, Coolidge's secretary of Commerce, w...
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Feet Per Second Miles An Hour
1,130 words... ing machine. Just as the building was being completed, the parts and material for the machines arrived simultaneously with one of the worst storms that had visited Kitty Hawk in years. The storm came on suddenly, blowing 30 to 40 miles an hour. It increased during the night, and the next day was blowing over seventy-five miles an hour. In order to save the tar-paper roof, we decided it would be necessary to get out in this wind and nail down more securely certain parts that were especially e...
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Feet Per Second Blood Vessels
1,014 wordsGunshot Wounds The handgun is the primary weapon in law enforcement. It is the one weapon any officer or agent can be expected to have available whenever needed. Its purpose is to apply deadly force to not only protect the life of the officer and the lives of others, but to prevent serious physical harm to them as well. When an officer shoots a subject, it is done with the explicit intention of immediately incapacitating that subject in order to stop the subject poses. Immediate incapacitation i...
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Feet Per Second Doesn T
2,416 wordsNot many people know about a sport called bow fishing. When people think of bow fishing, they think that you must lose a lot of arrows because the archer has no way of retrieving his or her arrow after launching it off its rest. This is a very big misconception in a very misunderstood and mysterious sport. As most people don? t understand about bow fishing, then don? t know that most bow fisherman rely on the darkness of night to cover them as the approach their prey. A specially rigged bow fish...
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Merry Go Round Feet Per Second
367 wordsThe Coriolis Effect was discovered by the nineteenth-century French mathematician, G. G. Coriolis. Coriolis found that all moving objects on the earth seem to sidle from their positions-an eastward movement in the Northern Hemisphere and a westward movement in the Southern Hemisphere. The effect is caused simply by the earth? s rotation and appears in all motions. The Coriolis effect can best be exemplified by a merry-go round. Let us suppose that two people, P and Q are riding on a merry-go-rou...
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Feet Per Second Carbon Dioxide
1,580 wordsPaintball is the sport of the 90 s. In fifteen short years, the sport of paintball has become recognized as one of the most exciting outdoor participation sports. Paintball is played in over 40 countries by millions of men and women of all ages and lifestyles. Whether homemakers or high-school students, professionals or retirees, all paintball players share in common the love for adventure and a strong competitive spirit. Like all action sports (football, hockey, etc. ) paintball is very dangero...
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