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Six Times Military Service
1,158 wordsWhat come to mind when you hear the word knight? You are probably thinking of a book that you read when you were younger and saw someone in shining armor, fighting a dragon and rescuing ladies in distress. But actually these are myths about the knight. They never fought dragons or rescued ladies in distress. They did however fight battles and wars. A knight was someone who was given land by a lord in exchange for military service in the lords army and any money that he might earn off his new lan...
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Red Green Weather Conditions
954 wordsThe system I choose to research is a simple open-looped system called the Vehicle Frost Box. This system is used to informing motor vehicle operators that likely conditions for icy roads are developing. Black ice cannot be seen and is a prime contributor to vehicle accidents during the winter months. If used, this simple system could actually save precious time, money and physical injury. For system development, the Problem Statement is; Black ice cannot be seen on roads, causing safety hazards ...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Ice Hockey
1,259 words... the building of dams. One species of beaver occurs in North America, the other in Eurasia. The two species differ chiefly in the shape of the nasal bones and are so much alike that some authorities consider them to be varieties of the same species. They are large rodents; the average adult beaver weighs about 16 kg (about 35 lb), but specimens as heavy as 40 kg (90 lb) have been found, and some extinct beavers were almost bearlike in size. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1975). Beavers have long ...
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Virtual Reality Magnetic Field
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Camp In Hopes Of Rallying Camp In Hopes Saladin
1,356 words... Joshua Power offers an excellent construction of the formation of the crusader army and its problems on the march: The mounted knights were preceded and probably flanked also by archers and crossbowmen, as well as by units of Turcoples, mounted archers who fought like the Saljuq or Turkish contingents. The heavy cavalry were the weakest point of the army when faced with Muslim troops far more mobile than their own. The enemy's mounted archers could shoot from well outside the range of Crusad...
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World War Ii Viet Minh
1,680 wordsThe Vietnam conflict began in the late 19 th Century. France forcefully took ownership of the islands and made the Vietnamese islands a protectorate of France. The Viet Minh, or the League Of Independence was formed sometime around 1940. They were a group of people seeking independence from France. The French Government opposed this action and decided to try and stop the Viet Minh from advancing their political ideals into the rest of Vietnam. In the city of Dien Bien Phu, the Viet Minh surround...
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Bait Casting Reel Three Main Groups Bass
1,173 wordsThe fog drifts lazily above the murky swamp water as I slowly ease my boat toward an ancient, moss covered cypress tree. A bullfrog croaks its early morning greeting and somewhere off in the distance an unknown creature screeches as the hair on the back of my neck stands on end. The old tree was the site of a recent battle between a monstrous black bass and me. A battle in which the big bass taught me a valuable lesson in humility. I have a lot more respect for her and her kind. She never gave u...
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Wide Variety High Frequency
1,386 wordsIntrusion Detection Systems When it comes to protecting the security of assets, organizations have many options to choose from. From basic alarms to the varied sensors that are available, there are many variations on security, and organizations should make a thought out choice based on the specific needs and dangers of its location, as well as any other factors including what needs to be protected, and from whom. These needs will determine the type and scope of the system to best protect against...
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Thomas Edison Recording Industry
3,198 wordsThe Phonograph Overview The invention of the phonograph and other sound reproduction machines began a new way of producing historical archives. Expressions of the human voice were no longer limited to their abstraction as words on the page, and the artistry and passion of a musical performance could be preserved outside human memory. People could bring the sounds of the world into their homes, and a global culture began to arise out of the mixture of influences that a broad diversity of recordin...
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Electromagnetic Radiation Brain Cancer
1,646 wordsWhat Causes Cell Phone Radiation and How Does it Effect Your Body? What is so popular with young teenagers today? Cell phones. Walking around on campus to walking around at the mall with your cell phone may seem fashionable and trendy, but did you now that it might be causing you to get a cancer? Ninety percent of cell phone holders do not realize it and it should be something everyone should be aware of. It may seem a bit unusually how a cell phone can cause a child or an adult to get cancer, b...
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Virtual Reality Three Dimensional
3,028 wordsVirtual Reality Virtual reality is the concept of illusion. It is an artificial realm itself, a fresh experience that involves the use of high technology. It is to convince oneself the existence of a non-real world. It is also a method to communicate ideas, thoughts, and a tool to experience what one might not be able to achieve. The term virtual reality was coined by Jaron Lanier, founder of VPL Research, to distinguish between the immersive digital worlds he was trying to create and traditiona...
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One Of The Greatest Police Officers
1,139 wordsThe most efficient way to reduce crime is to unite the police department with the community it serves. The police alone can not prevent crime and need to summons the assistance of its citizens. Without community policing, much of the police response ends up being reactive instead of proactive. We always look at statistics in a way that shows reactive status, but proactive status can not be figured into account. Some programs of community policing are bicycle, foot, and mounted patrol. Others may...
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Hard Drive Video Card
1,057 wordsThe computer is a commonly used machine in todays society. Building the right system is important factor to having a stable running PC. Knowing what you need the computer for, the parts inside the computer, and installing all the components correctly is also very important to this process. Knowing what the computer is being purchased for is very important. First you must think about who the users are going to be. Whether it is yourself, the kids, or even for the office. This is important because...
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Fifteen Minutes Daily Lives
890 wordsThe setting is set in a remote prison in West Virginia that has been abandon for several years. Six adventuresses are selected randomly to enter the abandoned prison and record findings of paranormal activity, if any. Each of the team members is to complete specific tasks assigned to them. If they can complete these they will walk out the prison with a nice sum of money in their pockets. Not only do the team members have to face their own personal fears but fear of the unknown that awaits them i...
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Rolling Stone Quot O
2,255 wordsOverview Laurie Anderson earned an international reputation as a high-tech magician of multi-media performance art. Her legendary shows, combining computer synthesized music, videos, slides, and provocative monologues, have challenged and delighted audiences for over twenty years. A self-described " story-teller, " Andersons art stems from a deeply personal vision. Once the lenfant terrible of New Yorks avante-garde, Anderson has evolved into a kind of electronic folk artist; an urbane...
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Game Was Played Didn T
951 wordsThe mesoamerican ballgame, known as ullamaliztli or ollamalizitli in the native language Nahuatl, was played for many different reasons and by many different people. The game was played all over what is now Mexico. It was played by two different groups, the Aztecs and Mayans. There is a very extensive history of the ballgame. Ranging from how it was discovered to whom discovered it to different personal accounts. The people who played the game were Mayan and Aztec. Some of the courts they found ...
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Eye Tracking Techniques Improve Realism Tracking Techniques Improve Realism Tracker
467 wordsNew Eye Tracking Techniques Improve Realism Of New Eye Tracking Techniques Improve Realism Of Aircraft Simulators A simulated flight environment for pilot training may soon be made more realistic through the use of eye-tracking technology developed by researchers at the University of Toronto's Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IMBE). Many safety and cost benefits are obtained by training aircraft pilots under simulated conditions, but to be effective the simulation must be convincingly realis...
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Mounted Police Social Identity
693 wordsWhen the topic of Canada comes up among peoples, immediately the thought of ice hockey, the Mounted Police, and beavers comes to mind. In fact, Canada has truly lost its true identity that we once knew. It is slowly being assimilated and in fact Americanized in aspects of social identity, national identity, and cultural identity. First, Canada is being slowly Americanized in its social identity. When we talk about a country s social identity, we examine a few areas. First is the media, which is ...
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Royal Society Eighty Years
3,387 wordsCan? la Analucinda Jaramillo " Truganinny" [] begins with an epigraph dated 1972, from Paul Coe, Australian Aboriginal Activist, stating that Truganinny " had seen the stuffed and mounted body of her husband and it was her dying wish that she be buried in the outback or at sea for she did not wish her body to be subjected to the same indignities. Upon her death, she was nevertheless stuffed and mounted and put on display for over eighty years" []. Roses persona poem finds Tru...
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World War Ii Mercedes Benz
2,037 wordsThe Porsche is a legacy of Ferdinand Porsche, and his belief in what an automobile should be. Porsche believed that cars should be the products of engineering innovation, careful development and diligent craftsmanship. Dr. Ferdinand Porsche was born in 1875 in Bohemia, and early on he devoted his time to mechanical and electric structures. When he was 15, his family was delighted to learn it had the second electrically lighted structure in town, for he had built a generator and everything else h...
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