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Century Bc American School
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Food Irradiation Drug Administration
1,755 wordsAn Epic Future in Cold Pasteurization The preservation of food is essential to maintain life and growth. Its daily intakes nourish our bodies, providing enzymes, in turn giving us energy. The ability of matter exerts radiation in its domain by means of energy in selected foods. Such rationale debates whether a development of technology creates an effective way to reduce the incidence of foodborne diseases, while treating a variety of potential problems in our food supply. An effective method of ...
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Hundred Feet Eight Hundred
1,281 wordsThe quest for travel has always been one that man has tried to conquer. First, he traveled on foot, and then developed methods of transportation such as boats, but one of the first obstacles that he had to overcome was getting across rivers, waterways, and canals. Today, bridges have become a part of everyday life; hence without them, people would have a much more difficult time going from one place to another. In the United States alone, there are more than half a million bridges (History of Br...
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One By One Iron Maiden
1,146 wordsThe Lawrence family hails a cab in the heart of downtown H angleton. With little success, they move to a deserted street hoping for less human traffic. The only visible movement is a lone rat scurrying into a gutter. Two lights appear on the horizon and Mr. Lawrence signals for a ride. The family of four lazily enters the cab after a late night at the theatre and they take off. Because of the long night and lengthy ride they doze off and leave their destination in the strange drivers hands. The ...
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Elias Van Rooyen Love His Family Lukas
895 wordsIs Elias van Rooyen to be despised or pitied? Elias van Rooyen is a strong character in the novel Fields Child. He leads a normal life, making beams for money, but the money he makes is only just enough to live on (pg 3). After Lukas is sent back to live with the van Rooyen's after the court case, and this is where we start to get to know Elias better. But the way he treats Lukas, Nina and his wife, and the way he gets his money, should be both despised and pitied. He is made out to be a bad man...
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Wooden Structural Frame Traditional Chinese Architecture Structure
471 wordsThe basic feature of Chinese architecture is rectangular-shaped units of space joined together into a whole. Temples in ancient Greece also employed rectangular spaces, but the overall effect tended to austerity. The Chinese style, by contrast, combines rectangular shapes varying in size and position according to importance into an organic whole, with each level and component clearly distinguished. As a result, traditional Chinese style buildings have an imposing yet dynamic and intriguing exter...
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Liquid Hydrogen Natural Gas
725 wordsHelium (Greek helios, "sun"), symbol He, inert, colorless, odorless gas element. In group 18 of the periodic table, helium is one of the noble gases. The atomic number of helium is 2. Pierre Janssen discovered helium in the spectrum of the corona of the sun during an eclipse in 1868. Shortly after it was identified as an element and named by the chemist Sir Edward Franklin and the British astronomer Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer. The gas was first isolated from terrestrial sources in 1895 by the Bri...
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Playing Cards Video Game
1,202 wordsEnglish p 17 1301 Nintendo the Survivor 'Work hard, but in the end it's in heaven's hands. ' This is a quote from Game Over about the meaning of the word 'Nintendo. ' In the video-gaming market, though, it was really in consumers' hands. Nintendo has always needed to adapt to survive in the market. Nintendo always needed to be on top; it was a company that needed to be ahead of the rest. Nintendo had to set new standards, or improve on an existing product or idea. The Dutch and Portuguese first ...
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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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Crocodile Physics Crocodile Crocodile Physics Crocodile Physics Light
394 wordsCrocodile Crocodile Physics Crocodile Physics Crocodile Physics is like a well-stocked physics lab where you can experiment to your heart? s content. Covering many syllabus topics, here is the hardware flattened for the small screen. There are masses, trolleys, lenses and electronic components to assemble, experiment and take measurements with. You can swing pendulums, change gravity, change angle of ramps to learn about forces. Excellent are the optics tools which let you split light into its c...
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Miles Per Second Speed Of Light
1,594 wordsWhen astronomers gaze out to the heavens these days, they see planets, stars and other celestial bodies. They understand how they move in relation to one another and the space they are in. This is due to the works of Albert Einstein nearly a century ago. Before then they were limited to understanding the universe based on the predictions, observations and calculations of mainly Isaac Newton. They were the backbone of classical physics, defining the world using the simplest of calculations. Newto...
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Three Dimensional Laser Light
1,264 wordsNearly everyone is fascinated by holograms. The often brightly colored three-dimensional images are constantly showing up in more and more places. From the security holograms on CDs and computer software, to hologram artwork, they are becoming ever more popular. But few people realize just how incredible holograms are. The Hungarian-born scientist Dr. Dennis Gabor first described the principles and technique of holography in 1947 (he received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics for this contribution...
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Light Waves Light Rays
1,064 wordsToss a pebble in a pond -see the ripples? Now drop two pebbles close together. Look at what happens when the two sets of waves combine -you get a new wave! When a crest and a trough meet, they cancel out and the water goes flat. When two crests meet, they produce one, bigger crest. When two troughs collide, they make a single, deeper trough. Believe it or not, youve just found a key to understanding how a hologram works. But what do waves in a pond have to do with those amazing three- dimensiona...
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Sq Ft Amusement Park
938 wordsTime Is Money Ohio's Flexicore Building Systems make short work of hotel construction When an amusement park operator decided to construct a new hotel to meet increased business, it faced challenges ranging from winter month delivery to a site with limited access. The solution came from Dayton, Ohio-based Flexicore Systems, Inc. , a company specializing in precast hollow core products. The most challenging aspect of constructing the Breakers Tower entailed location and time constraints, says Ced...
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Inside A Television Electron Gun Screen
476 wordsHow Television Works. There have been countless inventions that have forever changed the world just by their existence. Many of these have been related to communications, such as a radio, phone, and more specifically the television. Soon after its release, millions of families across the nation had their own television set, adding something new and exciting to the list of American pastimes. But what is inside a television, and how do they work? Who invented them and how? Television receives pict...
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Shakespeare King Lear
1,067 wordsGood King, that must approve the common saw, Thou out of heavens benediction com? st To the warm sun Approach, thou beacon to this under globe, That by thy comfortable beams I may Peruse this letter. Nothing almost sees miracles But misery. I know? tis from Cordelia Who hath most fortunately been informed Of my obscured course, and shall find time >From this enormous state, seeking to give Losses their remedies. All weary and o? er watched, Take vantage heavy eyes, not to behold This shameful lo...
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Solid State Lasers Funk And Wagnalls
1,294 wordspeople see Lasers When most people see a laser beam they are amazed by its unique physical properties. Laser light is so unique from other light because it is coherent; unlike ordinary light, which travels in all directions, laser light travels in a straight beam. The word laser is an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. The history of the laser is very interesting. Lasers have changed immensely since they were first invented. Before the laser was invented, Charle...
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Hester And Pearl Nathaniel Hawthorne
881 wordsOften in a literary work, the author strives to use literary devices in order to convey certain points to a reader on a different level. Nathaniel Hawthorne uses several literary devices to give his novel The Scarlet Letter depth. One of these devices is symbolism. Hawthorne utilizes symbolism to convey certain points or themes to the reader by using ordinary objects. Three of the elements he uses as symbols are the settings of the Puritan town and the forest and weather. The first of the two ma...
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One By One Iron Maiden
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World We Live Art And Architecture
1,045 wordsRoman Art and Architecture Roman art and architecture was the art and architecture of Rome and its empire, which in its golden era extended from the British Isles to the Caspian Sea (Roman Encarta 96). The earliest Roman art and architecture is generally associated with the overthrow of the Etruscan kings and the establishment of the Republic in 509 BC (Roman). The end of Roman art and architecture and the beginning of medieval art is usually said to occur with the conversion of the emperor Cons...
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