Porter and Frederick Marriott‚ attempted to start airlines using airships in the mid-19th century‚ focusing on the New York–California route. Those attempts floundered due to such mishaps as the airships catching fire and the aircraft being ripped apart by spectators. DELAG‚ Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft was the world’s first airline.[4] It was founded on November 16‚ 1909 with government assistance‚ and operated airships manufactured by The Zeppelin Corporation. Its headquarters were
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Hybrid Electric Vehicles The Dark Side John Orttenburger Lake Superior State University April 10‚ 2011 Abstract In the past decade‚ hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) have been making a big commotion with the innovative‚ gas saving technologies that accompany them. The illusion that HEVs are 100 percent environmentally friendly in all aspects also follows the HEV wave. Sadly the illusion often wins over unsuspecting customers the instant better gas mileage is offered. This review on the environmental
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Research paper: The Disenchanted F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life and work were in a knot from the start; his profession spanned one of the most tumultuous eras of the century‚ and from the very start he was the creator and the victim of the new culture of celebrity which accompanied the rise of modern technology. Budd Schulberg masterfully created a character that closely and in many ways represents Fitzgerald in his later years; Manley Halliday is that character. “His mind’s eye‚ incurably bifocal
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German Loanwords The German language has provided English with a huge inventory of words‚ many of them pertaining to music‚ science‚ and politics‚ thanks to the influence of German-speaking people on those areas of human endeavor. Here are some of the more useful German terms borrowed into English. 1. Achtung (“attention”): an imperative announcement used to obtain someone’s attention 2. Angst (“anxiety”): a feeling of apprehension 3. Blitz (“lightning”): used only literally in German‚ but in
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Towards mid-day the three pursuers came abruptly round a bend in the torrent bed upon the sight of a very broad and spacious valley. The difficult and winding trench of pebbles along which they had tracked the fugitives for so long‚ expanded to a broad slope‚ and with a common impulse the three men left the trail‚ and rode to a little eminence set with olive-dun trees‚ and there halted‚ the two others‚ as became them‚ a little behind the man with the silver-studded bridle. For a space they scanned
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Table of Contents Introduction 2 Global Scenario and Trends 5 History and the Current Scenario of the Indian Aviation Sector 6 Challenges Faced by Airline Industry 10 Future Trends 11 Opportunities 12 References 14 Introduction The Airlines is one among the inventions that had changed the way how people live and experience the world. In due course of time it has now become impossible to imagine business and leisure travel without air travel. The airline industry exists in an intensely
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History of death penalty in the Philippines The history of the death penalty was extensively discussed by the Supreme Court in People vs. Echegaray.[1] As early 1886‚ capital punishment had entered the Philippine legal system through the old Penal Code‚ which was a modified version of the Spanish Penal Code of 1870. The Revised Penal Code‚ which was enforced on 1 January 1932‚ provided for the death penalty in specified crimes under specific circumstances. Under the Revised Penal Code‚ death is
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A Research paper on Reducing Logistics Carbon Emissions What is Carbon Emissions? Carbon Emissions is the release of Carbon into the atmosphere. Carbon is released by the transport sector; by the manufacturing processes; and by the heating‚ cooling‚ and electricity for buildings. Carbon Emissions to the atmosphere is mainly from the burning of fossil fuels. The release of carbon is measured in metric tons. What is impact of Carbon Emissions on climate change? The emission of carbon to the
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Syllabus and opening epigraphs. Upon looking in the class syllabus there where three short entries that are at the beginning two of the three are the first things that had caught my attention. The first was by Ken Kesney counter cultural figure and author of the 1962 novel “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” This first quote was taken out of his 1964 novel “Sometimes a Great Notion” “Suburban survivors of Hiroshima described the blast as a ‘Mighty boom‚ like a locomotive followed by a long
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On the morning of 16 Jan 1991 images of precision strikes targeting Saddam Hussein’s Baathist regime ‚ brought the employment of airpower to the forefront of global consciousness . Concurrent with images of the attacks‚ the world’s media were broadcasting press briefings lauding the ‘revolutionary’ achievements of ‘surgical strikes’ conducted by F-117A Fighters; a capability that had only been publically acknowledged for the first time a year earlier . The aim of this essay is to penetrate the
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