1. Blue whale weighs about 150 tonnes as much as 150 cars. 2. Marine iguana from Galapagos Islands lives only in sea for his whole life. 3. Reticulated python is ten metre long as long as 10 bicycles put in a row 4. Opera house is made up of sand‚ water‚ limestone and soil. 5. Plovers hop inside crocodile’s mouth to clean their teeth by eating up worms and insects. 6. banknotes are made up of cotton rags 7. Snakes do not blink as they do not have eyelids. 8. Giraffes and
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Jupiter is composed primarily of gaseous and liquid matter. It is the largest of four gas giants as well as the largest planet in the Solar System with a diameter of 142‚984 km at its equator. The density of Jupiter‚ 1.326 g/cm3‚ is the second highest of the gas giant planets. The density is lower than any of the four terrestrial planets. Jupiter’s upper atmosphere is composed of about 88–92% hydrogen and 8–12% helium by percent volume or fraction of gas molecules. Since a helium atom has about
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Kindertransport by Diane - A Brief Study Guide Compiled by Amanda Lockitch Samuels http://www.childrenwhocheatedthenazis.co.uk/ Kindertransports http://www1.yadvashem.org/about_holocaust/faqs/answers/faq_11a.html From December 1938 until the outbreak of World War II on September 1‚ 1939‚ 9354 children and youth‚ 70% of them Jewish‚ reached Great Britain mostly from the German Reich in organized groups known as the Kindertransports. The trigger for the start of this rescue operation was the
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Scalpel A scalpel‚ or lancet‚ is a small and extremely sharp bladed instrument used for surgery‚ anatomical dissection‚ and various arts and crafts (called a hobby knife). Scalpel blades are usually made of hardened and tempered steel‚ stainless steel‚ or high carbon steel. Surgical scalpels consist of two parts‚ a blade and a handle. The handles are reusable‚ with the blades being replaceable. In medical applications‚ each blade is only used once (even if just for a single‚ small cut). Scalpel
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Chapter 13: The Bureaucracy 1. Polls about bureaucracy consistently show that the majority of Americans __________. a. favor the rights of businesses over that of the individual b. are in favor of privatization c. are in favor of outsourcing d. support “less government” e. support decreases in government programs 2. President Bill Clinton’s plan for reforming the bureaucracy was called __________. a. Performance-Based Budgeting b. Reinventing Government c. Pay as You Go d. Zero-Based Budgeting
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ECONOMY IN MODERN SOCIETY 1992 Student: David Risstrom‚ 8120572 Lecturer: John Love WEBER’S THEORY OF BUREAUCRACY AND MODERN SOCIETY How dominant have bureaucracies become in modern societies? Is Weber’s classical model still an accurate description of the main structural properties and dynamics of bureaucracy? What criticisms have been advanced by commentators like Luhmann and Blau? Bureaucracies have become particularly pervasive in modern societies‚ and thus justifiably have attracted a significant
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The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was used by the Royal Air Force and many other Allied countries throughout the Second World War. The Spitfire continued to be used as a front line fighter and in secondary roles into the 1950s. It was produced in greater numbers than any other British aircraft and was the only British fighter in continuous production throughout the war.[5] The Spitfire was designed as a short-range‚ high-performance interceptor aircraft[6] by
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1. Beringia was a land bridge roughly 1‚000 at its greatest‚ which joined present-day Alaska and eastern Siberia during the Pleistocene ice ages. It is believed that approximately 25‚000 years ago‚ Beringia enabled the population of the Americas from an emigration from Asia (founder effect). 2. Clovis a prehistoric Paleo-Indian culture that appeared at the end of the last glacial period‚ and are characterized by their namesake “Clovis points” and bone/ivory tools. They appeared roughly 13‚500
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Bureaucracy‚ a theory introduced by Max Weber‚ is defined as being a procedure created to promote efficiency and effectiveness in an organisation. Most early theories were also concerned with the modes of creating high levels of efficiency and effectiveness. It is suggested that Max Weber ’s theory of bureaucracy is most relevant and his concerns still echo in organisations today. This review is an attempt to validate this statement. In this paper‚ firstly‚ I will mainly look at some of the ideas
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articles on autism I knew that I did not know much about this disorder and who were the most affected by it. It affects 1 out of 88 children in the world and most of them are males who are four times more likely to develop ASD than females (“Autism Fact Sheet”). Early signs of Autism may appear in the first months of life‚ and children with autism do not reach maturation as fast as normal children. One of the most common signs is that a normal child will point to objects or smile when seeing their
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