Chinese Architecture
.... present. Builders
would apply a lacquer to the wood to preserve it. These lacquers were made
in bold colors, and this became one of the key ways to identify Chinese
architecture. The highly varied color found on a traditional Chinese
building have a symbolic meaning to the Chinese culture. People would
paint dragons, flowers, birds, and landscapes on these buildings. These are
called murals that are painted onto the buildings to give it more meaning.
The Chinese would make a platform, and build the structure on the platform.
A high platform would add strength, elegance, and honor to large buildings.
The roofs on the Chinese bu .....
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Chemical Warfare And Its Uses
.... when a country decides
to build up a capacity for chemical warfare.
Mustard agent was produced for the first time in 1822 but its
harmful effects were not discovered until 1860. Mustard agent was first
used as a CW agent during the latter part of the First World War and caused
lung and eye injuries to a very large number of soldiers. Many of them
still suffered pain 30-40 years after they had been exposed, mainly as a
result of injuries to the eyes and chronic respiratory disorders.
In its pure state, mustard agent is colorless and almost odorless.
The name was given to mustard agent as a result of an earlier production
me .....
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Viking Sailing Ships
.... and the stars, but by
the 900's they developed a system to figure out which direction they were
sailing. They made a table of figures with the sun's midday height for
each week of the year, with using a measuring stick and the table of
figures a navigator could estimate the latitude of the ships location.
Over the years the Viking ships improved and so did their
navigation skills. The contacts with other countries increased and so did
the many talents of the Vikings knowledge of the sea, earth and the sky.
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Instant Replay Should Be Reinstated In The NFL
.... to . Also included in these are
momentum halting calls and calls that could possibly deny records to be
made and/or broken.
One other group that will benefit from instant replay being
reinstated, besides the teams, are the sports gamblers. With instant
replay, states allowing sports gambling and gamblers will have better
chances of getting an even break on games that are bet on. This would make
most games easier to tell who wins, by how much, and if the game is as
close as the odds thought it would be. . .or not.
In conclusion, most people would not mind spending a little more
time watching their favorite team if the game .....
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Basketball And Its History
.... and consists of a horizontal hoop, or metal ring, from which a
fringe of wide-meshed white netting is hung. The regulation basketball is
an inflated, leather- or nylon-covered sphere that weighs from 567 to 624 g
(20 to 22 oz) and has a circumference of about 76 cm (about 30 in).
History
Basketball was invented in December 1891 by the Canadian clergyman,
educator, and physician James Naismith. Naismith introduced the game when
we was an instructor at the Young Men's Christian Association Training
School (now Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts. At the
request of his superior, Dr. Luther H. Gulick, h .....
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Fire Or Ice? How Will The World End?
.... the
future. Also, the Mayan calendar, recently revered as a major clue holder,
ends on December 21st, 2012. The Mayans believe time on earth will roll
over into "fourth dimensional time" in 2013, following the end of
civilization. Another interesting point involving this time frame centers
around the ozone hole. Between the years 2010-2020, the hole is expected
to be at its most dangerous levels. This could in turn be the cause, but
there are more connections to be made regarding events that are prophesied
to happen during the apocalypse.
When dealing with the events to occur at the end, one could
possibly divide them into .....
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Negative And Positive Attitudes And The Checkout Line
.... rest
of the categories. Many of the teenagers, it seemed, had a supposedly
incomprehensive or, more likely, confused attitude about whose turn it was
to go through the checkout line when a new line opened. Consequently, when
the line opened, the teenager, who previously had at least three people
before him in line, would immediately leap over to the new line ahead of
all other shoppers. This obnoxious move by the teenager left many with a
hesitation of whether they should step behind the teenager while imparting
a gentle reprimand and words of wisdom or step in front of him while
lambasting him with multiple words of frustratio .....
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Hypnotism
.... Not according to the scientific community at least. My
sources for this statement are The World Book Encyclopedia, The Wizard from
Vienna: Franz Anton Mesmer, Applied Hypnosis: An Overview, American Medical
Journal, and Hypnosis: Is It For You? Although they state it in different
ways they all basically agree that nobody can give a very accurate
definition or description of hypnosis, or hypnosis. Although some may get
the definition partly correct, the chances of doing so completely are very,
very low. So although I will probably not be able to give a totally
accurate account of hypnosis and its workings, I will try. Although
e .....
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Mysteries Of The World
.... cases are simply products of overactive imaginations, and as for
the pictures, scientists say they are not lucid enough to distinguish
items clearly, and some pictures are dubbed as "fake". A large number of
non- scientists believe however, that the Loch Ness is the site of a
breeding colony of large unknown aquatic animals, due to the fact that
Loch Ness was once an arm of the sea. Yearly summer investigations have
been conducted since 1963 in attempt to unravel the mystery. Investigators
have obtained films and sonar readings that indicate that there just might
be some unknown animal in the depths of the Loch Ness. Evidence h .....
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Labyrinths And Mazes
.... could be used to protect all
sorts of things. The Egyptians used them to protect riches and even
important bodies. In one instance, in Cretian mythology, the labyrinth was
built by Daedalus for King Minos to protect the people of Crete from a
minotaur. Instead of it keeping him from completing the labyrinth, it kept
him inside so he could do the people no harm. He was lost inside of it
until Theseus came and killed him.
Labyrinths and mazes aren't just used for protection, though. In
some places, like England, and some churches, labyrinths were used for
decoration purposes. In the churches they were put on the floors to
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Practices And Winning In Sports
.... follow. Other objectives would be to make everybody on the
team a team player and not an individual, this would go back to the main
objective which is to make the team play as a team. Nothing can be
accomplished if the team doesn't play as a team.
Nobody has influenced me to make me the person I am today except
for my parents and the rest of my family.
There are many things a coach would expect from his team. Such as;
doing his/her own job, picking a player up instead of putting them down
when they make a mistake, not being late for practice or games, not to be a
negative factor to the team, to give 100% effort always, and to st .....
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The Importance Of Human Interaction And Communication
.... take
turns ding the dreaded rowing job and never disrespect one an other.
Survival was very important to these members of the dinghy and they looked
to achieve it by the participation in the brotherhood and human interaction.
They could have wallowed in their own misery and blamed one another but
they didn't. All of them have aching backs but they put that aside at the
expense of the groups well being. They experienced the kind of camaraderie
and relationship that man can really only hope for; one based on mutual
respect and genuine concern. Finally, they are coerced to jump into the
sea and swim to shore because they are all .....
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