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Myths And Legends Oxygen Atoms
878 wordsIn certain polar regions of the earth, a rare and fascinating phenomenon occurs in the dark season of winter. This phenomenon is called the Northern Lights, or auroras. In areas where auroras can be seen, the sun shines brightly for six months and then disappears for the next six. The sun follows a straight path across the sky, rising in the north and setting in the south. This is because of the latitude of these regions. Unlike other regions of earth, the polar regions either completely face th...
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San Francisco York City
747 wordsOn November 30, 1835 in Florida, Missouri the sixth child of John and Jane Clemens was born, Samuel Langhorne. Four years later the family moved to Hannibal, the place Clemens spent his boyhood years. His town was located on the bank of the Mississippi River to which the boy had strong ties. The steamboats on the river made Clemens dream of becoming a steamboat pilot. One short year after his father's death in 1847, Samuel became apprentice to printer Joseph Ament, the publisher of the Missouri ...
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Million Years Ago 65 Million Years
2,114 wordsThe "Nemesis Theory" was an outgrowth of the discovery of Alvarez et al. , that the impact of a large (10 km diameter) comet or asteroid was responsible for the great mass extinction that took place 65 million years ago. Studies of the fossil record by Dave Raup and Jack Sepkoski shows that this was not an isolated event, but one of several mass extinctions that appear to occur on a regular 26 million year cycle. Their original paper analyzed marine fossil families, and was published in the Proc...
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What Would Happen If The Moon Were Destroyed
1,095 wordsWhat would happen if the moon was destroyed? I have often wondered what would happen if the moon were destroyed and how it would be destroyed. Would a crazy scientist nuke it? Maybe an asteroid would hit it. Astronomers have catalogued all large objects in space that are larger than 500 kilometers in diameter and non-of them seem to be headed towards our moon. Based on this information, the only conclusion that I can come up with, was if the moon was to be blown up by some crazy scientist. Many ...
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Dust Particles Magnetic Fields
2,093 words... planet from the Sun and is the third largest in the solar system. It has an equatorial diameter of 51, 800 kilometers (32, 190 miles) and orbits the Sun once every 84. 01 Earth years. It has a mean distance from the Sun of 2. 87 billion kilometers (1. 78 billion miles). The length of a day on Uranus is 17 hours 14 minutes. Uranus has at least 22 moons. The atmosphere of Uranus is composed of 83 % hydrogen, 15 % helium, 2 % methane and small amounts of acetylene and other hydrocarbons. Methan...
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Solar System Comets Comet
393 wordsThe article summarized below is from THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC (issue Dec. 97) by William R. Newport. It tells about how comets are important and their effect on earth and its people. Comets are leftover scrubs of material that did not make it to planet hood in the events creating our solar system. They orbit in a perpetual Deepfreeze until some subtle gravitational nudge upsets the delicate balance. The Great Falls begins. First a snowball drifts towards the sun and steadily accelerates. As solar...
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Cricket Deterrents Lab Experiment Science Project
1,015 wordsInsects have been a nuisance to man since the beginning of time, up until the present. One of the plagues that struck Egypt was swarms of crickets, and locusts, which destroyed crops, and ate entire fields. Swarms of Crickets can cover up to 210 km. There have been cases of up to 100, 000, 000, 000 insects in a swarm (one hundred billion). In these huge masses, they can completely destroy the land and everything on a farm. I chose to do this experiment because when I am at camp I am constantly w...
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Pre Fire Chicago Union Stock Yards City
776 wordsThe exact particulars of the great Chicago Fire are unknown besides the fact that it started about 9 p. m. on Sunday, October 8, 1871. There have been persistent theories that the 1871 Fire was caused by a comet. The latest comet theory was proposed by physicist Robert Wood. He attributed the blazes to a fragment from Bills comet. He stated that for large fires, all on the shores of Lake Michigan, took place on the same day. But none of the comet theories has been accepted. Only regional weather...
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20 Th Century Museum Of Art
803 wordsMarcel Duchamp, was a French Dada artist, whose miniature but litigious output exerted a strong power on the expansion of 20 th-century avant-garde art. Duchamp was born on July 28, 1887, in Blainville, and was a brother of another prominent artist Raymond Duchamp-Villon as well as a half brother of another famous painter Jacques Villon. Marcel Duchamp began to paint himself in 1908. After creating several canvases in then popular genre of Fauvism, he started to do experimentation and the avant-...
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William Dawes Midnight Ride
691 wordsWilliam Dawes... MidNight Ride Lt. William Dawes was born in 1762. Little is known of his childhood. His father, Benjamin Dawes, was clerk of works in the Ordnance Office at Portsmouth, Devon. William was the oldest of five children. The first we hear of William is that he joined the Royal Marines at the age of 17. He was twice married, and had three children, all from the first marriage. Lt. Dawes was a second lieutenant when wounded in action against the French at Chesapeake Bay in 1781. He vo...
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Marcel And Its Power On Modern Day Art
686 wordsMarcel Duchamp's Readymades and Its Power on Modern Day Art Marcel Duchamp, was a French Dada artist, whose miniature but litigious output exerted a strong power on the expansion of 20 th-century avant-garde art. Duchamp was born on July 28, 1887, in Blainville, and was a brother of another prominent artist Raymond Duchamp-Villon as well as a half brother of another famous painter Jacques Villon. Marcel Duchamp began to paint himself in 1908. After creating several canvases in then popular genre...
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Life On Earth Kilometers In Diameter
1,119 wordsWhat would happen if the moon was destroyed? I have often wondered what would happen if the moon were destroyed and how it would be destroyed. Would a crazy scientist nuke it? Maybe an asteroid would hit it. Astronomers have catalogued all large objects in space that are larger than 500 kilometers in diameter and non-of them seem to be headed towards our moon. Based on this information, the only conclusion that I can come up with, was if the moon was to be blown up by some crazy scientist. Many ...
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Comet Of 1577 Designed And Built Tycho
767 wordsTygeTycho Brahe Tycho Brahe The (Latinized as Tycho) Brahe was born on 14 December 1546 in State, then in Denmark, now in Sweden. He was the eldest son of Otto Brahe and Better Bill, both from families in the high nobility of Denmark. He was brought up by his paternal uncle J? rgen Brahe and became his heir. He attended the universities of Copenhagen and Leipzig, and then traveled through the German region, studying further at the universities of Wittenberg, Rostock, and Basel. During this perio...
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Persons Attempting To Find
1,069 wordsThe entire plot of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is rooted on intolerance between different social groups. Without prejudice and intolerance The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn would not have any of the antagonism or intercourse that makes the recital interesting. The prejudice and intolerance found in the book are the characteristics that make The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn a great American Classic. The author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Samuel Longhorn, who is more commonl...
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Hall Of Fame Arts And Sciences
951 wordsMARIA MITCHELL The person that I chose for the Women&# 61501; s History Month report is Maria Mitchell, who was a self- taught astronomer. She discovered Comet Mitchell and made amazing achievements throughout her life. Maria Mitchell was born on August 1, 1818 on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket to William and Lydia Mitchell. When Maria Mitchell was growing up in the Quaker community, few girls were allowed to study astronomy and higher mathematics. Even though the Mitchells werent rich Ma...
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
2,432 wordsCohen 1 Jeffrey Cohen Mrs. Schroeder-Blue American Authors 26 March 1999 Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, is perhaps the most distinguished author of American Literature. Next to William Shakespeare, Clemens is arguably the most prominent writer the world has ever seen. In 1818, Jane Lampton found interest in a serious young lawyer named John Clemens. With the Lampton family in heavy debt and Jane only 15 years of age, she soon married John. The family moved to Ga...
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Samuel Clemens Mark Twain
607 wordsSamuel Clemens was born and grew up in Hannibal, Missouri. This was the home of his later characters Tom Sawer and Huck Finn. In these books he incorporated such features that really existed in Hannibal; features such as Holidays Hill, Bear Creek and Lover? s Leap. Clemens described the residents of Hannibal as happy and content with the lives they led in their small town. In his late teens, Clemens left Hannibal on a riverboat to become a printer in St. Louis. He moved up in the ranks of printi...
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Samuel Clemens San Francisco
420 wordsSamuel Clemens was born and grew up in Hannibal, Missouri. This was the home of his later characters Tom Sawer and Huck Finn. In these books he incorporated such features that really existed in Hannibal; features such as Holidays Hill, Bear Creek and L In his late teens, Clemens left Hannibal on a riverboat to become a printer in St. Louis. He moved up in the ranks of printing and moved to New York and eventually to Washington D. C. Clemens remembered how much fun he had had on the riverboat and...
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
970 wordsMost adults today have most likely read the story of Tom Sawyer, a novel about young boy who grew up on the Mississippi River, or a writing by Mark Twain. But what most people do not know is that the author actually grew up on the Mississippi River himself. That author is Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the name of Mark Twain. Mark Twain came from the Western Movement Era in American History, which took place from 1783 to 1825, which was when Americans were moving west to find gold and land. On ...
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Tissue Paper Large Herbivores Comet
408 wordsHow the Dinosaurs Became Extinct Dinosaurs, as we know are extinct. But the question is how they became extinct. It s a question many scientists and archaeologists have been pondering and many of them have different ideas about it. I have collected and created some of the different hypothesis scientists have came up with. I have chosen the volcano and comet possibilities. Some believed that a volcano killed the dinosaurs. The idea is that when a volcano erupted, it caused a lot of dust and rubbl...
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