Serendipity – Accidental Discoveries in Science ABSTRACT Serendipity means the faculty of making fortunate and unexpected discoveries by accidents. Penicillin‚ X-ray‚ Viagra‚ Teflon are common examples known as accidental discoveries in science. The stories of these discoveries are interesting and meaningful. X-ray for medical diagnosis and treatment‚ miracle drug penicillin‚ Viagra for treatment of erectile dysfunction‚ Teflon for frying pans‚ all of these discoveries make our life wonderful
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6‚939 ships were assembled in England to attack Normandy including 1‚213 naval combat ships‚ 4‚126 landing ships and landing crafts‚ 736 ancillary craft‚ and 864 merchant vessels (D-DAY: JUNE 6‚ 1944:. “The National WWII Museum”). This was the biggest water invasion in all of history. These ships would carry many of the two million men to the beaches of Normandy. Over 11‚000 aircraft flew
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reach this final state. Plato holds that the human function is justice and that it ensures happiness for both the individual and the society when practiced correctly. But this ideal of justice is not for individuals who have special professions or “crafts.” Justice is rather an ideal that every person should pursue for himself/herself. While their definitions seem to be more or less similar‚ the two philosophers differ on the relative importance of these notions. That is to say‚ while according to
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and prove‚ that Greek material culture reveals an immense amount about ancient Greek society. From vast studies and examinations of the great ancient Greek architecture‚ the immaculate fine art and literature and even the personal possessions and crafts of the societies own inhabitants‚ one can reason that these materials reflect much about ancient Greece and its people. From studying the architecture of this ancient society‚ one can assume various things about its inhabitants such as beliefs
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The Republic: Important ideas and arguments. INTRODUCTION The fundamental aim of the Republic is to define justice. In the pursuit to defining justice Socrates engages in a range of discussions in these discussions many important ideas and arguments are presented. This essay will discuss five of the most important ideas and arguments displayed in the Republic as well as stating the reasons for their importance in Plato’s justice argument. The essay concludes
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The space race‚ a race to see who could make it to space first. It had origin ties to the arms race between America and the Soviet Union. The purpose of this research paper will be to get information on just what the space race was. Along with that‚ the following questions will be answered: What events lead up prior to the space race? What was America’s and the Soviet Union’s involvement in it? And finally‚ what were the end results of the Space Race? What was the space race? It was a competition
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Guidelines for written case analysis Working in teams of up to four students your task will be to recommend an IPO price for the Boston Beer Company‚ Inc. Your grade will be based on your answers to the assigned case questions. You do not need to list the question and then your answer (as you might do for a problem set). The questions are there to serve as a guide to arrive at the solution of the case. As such‚ answers to these questions should be integrated as part of the report and you are
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The Mandan tribe was a very large and unique American Indian tribe. The Mandans specialized in many things‚ including building arts‚ handcrafts‚ weapons‚ and tools. They also had very unique beliefs and men and women had certain roles they had to follow in society. Another thing that was special to the Mandans was how they lived and the clothing they wore. All of these thing are what came together to make the Mandans different from other American Indian tribes. This tribe was one of many that came
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My name is ABDUL HASEEB JAVED .My father name is KHALID JAVED. I belong to the city of Sargodha which is located in province of Punjab. Culture of Sargodha is Punjabi. Culture: Punjabi Culture is one of the oldest in world history. It is famous for Punjabi cuisine philosophy poetry artistry music architecture traditions values history Beliefs: People of Punjab have strong beliefs on pir-faqeers‚ jogi‚ taweez‚ manat-ka-dhaga‚ saint of repute‚ black magic‚ and other superstitions‚ however recently
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happened to be there on groundhog‚ I forgot how excited I used to be on ground hog day‚ their was a class discussion over the groundhog. Their craft was to make a ground hog with their feet. The teacher and I painted their feet and brown to be the groundhog and helped them “paint” it to paper and wash their foot off. The children loved this craft. Craft time was then cleaned up and they got ready for lunch. I found this is a very busy classroom and by the time their morning and lunch is over with
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