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Medieval WeaponsARMOR
The weapons and protection of medieval times was quiet strange and
beautiful. Armor began as leather that had been tempered and soaked in a
substance, and when dried made it awfully stiff. Needless to say against
the early swords of the time it was not very effective. After the
discovery of ...
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The Advancement Of WeaponryWeaponry progressed significantly throughout the Middle Ages from unsophisticated means such as axes, swords, lances and crossbows too much more advanced and complex weapons such as guns, cannons and missiles. In the beginning of the 7th century armies in Western Europe were little more than ...
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History Of The PropellerThe aircraft propeller looks like a simple mechanism to the uneducated individual. To the educated, an aircraft propeller represents the highest sophistication in aerodynamics, mechanical engineering and structural design. This report will touch on the , from early pioneers/experiments, ...
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UFO Crash Near Roswell, NMA UFO crashed near Roswell New Mexico in 1947. The report in the
papers on July 8, 1947 would bring news to the world that aliens were real
(Stacy 36). However, the U.S. government quickly quashed the story before
it was widely spread. A cover story was released by the 8th Air Force; the
wreckage ...
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John Coltrane\"I\'ve got to keep experimenting. I feel that I\'m just beginning. I have part of what I\'m looking for in my grasp, but not all."
This phrase, from the liner notes of \"My Favorite Things\" clearly defines Coltrane\'s life and his search for the incorporation of his spirituality with his ...
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The Manhattan Projectwas the code name for the US effort during World War
II to produce the atomic bomb. It was named for the Manhattan Engineer
District of the US Army Corps of Engineers, since much of the early
research was done in New York City. It was top-secret engineering and
industrial project in the United ...
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Mini-ResearchELECTRON- In 1897, Sir J. J. Thomas, an English physicist, measured the
deflection of cathode-ray particles in magnetic and electrical fields. As a
result he found the ratio of the charge, e, to the mass, m, of the cathode-ray
particles. He found e/m identical to those particles irrespective of ...
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Technology Has Influenced Ourinterpretation of the origin and nature of the universe starting in the early 1900's and continuing on until today. Technology continues to influence as people are willing to create and modify it. Applied science continues to advance and change bringing along with it changes in our theories ...
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The Manhattan ProjectOn the morning of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay flew over
the industrial city of Hiroshima, Japan and dropped the first atomic bomb
ever. The city went up in flames caused by the immense power equal to
about 20,000 tons of TNT. The project was a success. They were ...
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TornadoesTornado means to turn in Latin. A tornado is a violent whirling wind, characteristically accompanied by a funnel-shaped cloud extending down from a cumulonimbus cloud. Commonly known as a twister or cyclone, a tornado can be a few meters to about a kilometer wide where it touches the ground, with ...
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Radio: A Form Of CommunicationMr. Zambizi
Physics
Radio is a form of communication in which intelligence is transmitted without
wires from one point to another by means of electromagnetic waves. Early forms
of communication over great distances were the telephone and the telegraph. They
required wires between the sender and ...
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The Leaf-Cutting AntsOne of the most little known species of ants in North America is the leaf-cutter ant. This is mainly because it lives in tropical environments and it is not aggressive to animals or humans if not disturbed. The leaf cutting ant is a social insect. Alone the ant is virtually helpless but with the ...
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Generation-x.the ‘post-baby-boomer’ generation.
is the word that stands for the children of the baby boomer generation in America. It has been coined as such because of the diversity and lack of homogeneity of this population, which stands in sharp contrast with the baby- boomer generation. X ...
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History Of The Aircraft PropellerHistory of the Propeller The aircraft propeller looks like a simple
mechanism to the uneducated individual. To the educated, an aircraft
propeller represents the highest sophistication in aerodynamics,
mechanical engineering and structural design. This report will touch
on the history of the ...
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Biology 2The title of the Journal that I used is The Dynamics of Flight-Initiating Jumps in the Common Vampire Bat Desmodus rotundus and was written by William A. Schutt, Jr, J. Scott Altenbach, Young Hui Chang, Dennis M. Cullinane, Juhn W. Hermanson, Farouk Muradali, and John E. A. Bertram. The journal ...
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Sir Isaac NewtonThesis Statement: Through his early life experiences and with the knowledge left by his predecessors, was able to develop calculus, natural forces, and optics. From birth to early childhood, Isaac Newton overcame many personal, social, and mental hardships. It is through these experiences that ...
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The Atomic BombAlbert Einstein predicted that mass could be converted into energy. This was the basis for . Throughout this research paper, I will trace the history of . In addition, who was involved and why, what happened in this event, and explain the impact that it had on the world. After Einstein predicted, ...
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Images In AdvertisingMarketing, sales, and distribution are the ideas, images, and world that we are surrounded by which molds us consciously or unconsciously. Society grasps us through advertising, which enters our world in full velocity of beauty. With the combination of the two in full swing, our community is ...
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Drumlin Formation By Catastrophic FloodingSince 1983, several investigators have developed a theory of due to the release of meltwater that is believed to have accumulated beneath melting ice sheets. The proposed catastrophic sheet floods, as wide as the drumlin fields, formed the drumlins and related streamlined landforms, such as ...
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Rocky MarcianoOn Sept. 1, 1923 Mr. and Mrs. Pierino Marchegiano of Brockton, MA became the proud parents of a lively twelve pound baby boy. The child was named Rocco Marchegiano, but the world would one day know him as the legendary boxer .
When \"bambino Rocco\" was 18 months of age, he contracted pneumonia. ...
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