themselves by vibration‚ shaking and sometimes displacement of the ground. The vibrations may vary in magnitude. Earthquakes are caused mostly by slippage within geological faults‚ but also by other events such as volcanic activity‚ landslides‚ mine blasts‚ and nuclear tests. The underground point of origin of the earthquake is called the focus. The point directly above the focus on the surface is called the epicenter. Earthquakes by themselves rarely kill people or wildlife. It is usually the secondary
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1 - Follows: 2 - Updated: 05-17-12 - Published: 05-30-11 - id: 7034814 A a Abc Abc Abc One Thousand and One Nights Author’s Note: I will confess that "sucked-into-video-game" styled stories have always been a guilty pleasure of mine. My only complaint is that they always tend to follow the same formula. With that in mind‚ I am going to try and switch things up a bit with this story. I hope you enjoy it‚ and regardless of the feedback being good or bad‚ I would love to hear your
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More Flags‚ More Fun! Six Flags Entertainment Corp. is the world’s largest amusement park corporation based on the number of properties in Mexico‚ the United States‚ and Canada and that it is the fifth most popular in terms of attendance. The company maintains eighteen properties throughout North America consisting of theme parks‚ water parks‚ and family entertainment centers. The company was founded in Texas and took its name from its first property‚ Six Flags Over Texas. The company maintains a
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Last December‚ our lovely guidance counselor‚ Mrs. McBride‚ forwarded an email to all juniors urging anyone interested in entering the medical field to apply to MU’s High School Mini Medical School. I generally blow off all the emails sent from her because they are usually full of irrelevant content‚ but this email ignited (vivid verb) such a fire in me that 15 fire trucks could not have put it out. The ponderous‚ mango colored school bus full of screaming children dropped me off at my house that
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basketball season until the pain was too much and I went to get a check up‚ then a MRI‚ then before i knew it I had to get surgery for a torn meniscus. This ended my basketball season. After surgery I went to my rehab physical therapist Dr. Marty in Centralia. He got my knee back in good working order after
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of like a Harrison Ford- Indiana Jones feel. My objective: To unravel the mystery of the past while dodging misconceptions and possible danger (got to spice this up a little) to hopefully‚ in the end‚ answer all the generic existential questions of mine and quench the thirst of self-validation all in one neat package. This time I’m in the garage scrounging for anything that sparks nostalgia. Nothing much has changed for the last fifteen years except for the accumulation of dust particles. Something
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The Corperation of National Community Service found this statistic that volunteering and being involved in the local government can give you 27% higher odds of finding a job rather than non-volunteers. When I finish High School I might have 27% higher odds of getting a job because I have met my civic responsibilities. I have met my civic responsibilities by going to school board meeting‚ babysitting for the parents of Parent Teacher Organization and working the PTO Fun Run‚ and I learned even the
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for her job. For her last assignment‚ she had run and reported on the Leadwood‚ South Dakota‚ marathon—it was a blast! As if reading her mind‚ her boss Charley walked in just then with a can of XS Citrus Blast® in one hand and a list of several other energy drinks in the other. “We’ve been getting a lot of inquiries about the different energy drinks on the market‚ including XS Citrus Blast®. Do you know anything about them?” Charley asked. “I know that people use them for various reasons‚” replied
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History of Iron and Steel I have researched the origin of hot metal cars for many years. In the very early years of iron production and later steel production historical is sketchy at best. Almost in plant equipment was built on sight and sometimes no drawings were used. The ability of American fabricators in the late 1700 and the 1800 amazes me. A case in point is Otto Mears a German immigrant that built most of the three foot gauge railroads in the Colorado Rockies. He had a third grade education
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The book I read was titled Here There are Tigers‚ The Secret Air War in Laos‚ 1968-69. It was written by Reginald Hawthorn and is his personal experience as a Major in the Air Force. I wanted to know an Air Force pilot’s perspective since I read about so much bombing going on during the Vietnam War. He was an FAC (Forward Air Controller) and flew an O-2 single prop airplane during Vietnam from 1968-1969. Major Reginald Hathorn was an instructor at Laughlin Air Force Base when he got the call on Friday
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