Bridge Street London SE1 9SG Coordinates 51.5045°N 0.0865°W Construction Started March 2009 Completed July 2012 Opening 1 February 2013 Owner State of Qatar (95%) Sellar Property Group (5%) HEIGHT Architectural 309.6 M (1‚016 ft.) Observatory 244.3M (802 ft.) Floor count 95 Floor area 110‚000 Sq. M Lifts/Elevators 44 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION Architect Renzo Piano Developer Sellar Property Group Structural Engineer WSP Global (structural engineers) Robert Bird Group (concrete
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the outline of the country is visible from its lights alone. The major cities are all there‚ in bright clusters: New York‚ Boston‚ Miami‚ Houston‚ Los Angeles‚ Seattle‚ Chicago—and‚ of course‚ Las Vegas. Mark Adams‚ superintendent of the McDonald Observatory in west Texas‚ says that the very fact that city lights are visible from on high is proof of their wastefulness. “When you’re up in an airplane‚ all that light you see on the ground from the city is wasted. It’s going up into the night sky. That’s
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mauled by Griffith‚ the author’s comments that the boxer was purposefully demonstrating his talent lessens the impact on his publicity. The author actually extols the boxer by implying that‚ of all fighters‚ none had the ability to take punches like him. Utilizing details in his imagery‚ the author paints a picture of the fight in the minds of the audience to allow them to sympathize with Paret for taking part in such a gruesome fight and eventually dying. The author mentions that Griffith “hit him
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mentions that Aryabhata was the head of an institution (kulapa) at Kusumapura‚ and‚ because the university of Nalanda was in Pataliputra at the time and had an astronomical observatory‚ it is speculated that Aryabhata might have been the head of the Nalanda university as well.[6] Aryabhata is also reputed to have set up an observatory at the Sun temple in Taregana‚ Bihar.[10] Other hypotheses Some archeological evidence suggests that Aryabhata could have originated from the present day Kodungallur
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accomplish. Second and most important settlement in Ireland was impossible because Anglo-Irish Treaty split Sinn Fein‚ those who opposed Treaty led by Eamon de Valera and those who took a pragmatic response to the situation they faced led by Collins and Griffith. The terms of Treaty were not to the satisfaction of De Valera and his supporters‚ they were disappointed that a sovereign independent 32 county united Irish Republic had not been achieved. Collins argued that no better deal was possible at that
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Abstract Health care providers encounter and care for a diverse population of patients. When caring for these patients‚ providers must be properly prepared to care for not only for their cultural needs but also for their spiritual/faith needs. Nurses must have a basic yet broad knowledge of cultural and spiritual needs of patients whether in the hospital setting‚ clinic setting‚ or physician’s office. This document will explore three different faiths and compare them to Christianity and the author’s
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Ellingson‚ J.‚ Sackett‚ P.‚ & Hough‚ L. (1999). Social desirability corrections in personality measurement: Issues of applicant comparison and construct validity. Journal of Applied Psychology‚ 84(2)‚ 155-166. doi: 10.1037/0021-9010.84.2.155 Griffith‚ R.‚ & Peterson‚ M. (2008). The failure of social desirability measures to capture applicant faking behavior. Industrial and Organizational‚ 1(3)‚ 308-311. doi: 10.1111/j.1754-9434.2008.00053.x Hough‚ L.‚ & Oswald‚ F. (2008). Personality
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person‚ of holding them in bondage‚ is like having this God-like power over them. The South’s race-based institution of slavery was one of the driving forces behind this production. Birth of a Nation portrays race in two extremely different ways. Griffith refers to what he calls “bad blacks” as “renegades” and “good blacks” as what he calls “faithful souls.” The renegades were the rebels; they took over the town and raided and looted houses. These once-slaves went around destroying property and raping
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The Earthquake-Resilient Building The Brilliant Idea: A replaceable‚ building-wide system to help hospitals‚ apartment buildings and office towers survive severe seismic shaking. By Logan Ward and the Editors of Popular Mechanics September 30‚ 2010 6:30 AM Elastic high-strength steel cables run down the center of the system’s frame. The cables control the rocking of the building and‚ when the earthquake is over‚ pull it back into proper alignment. A steel frame situated around a building’s
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Denver‚ Colorado‚ in April 2009. Steven Ritz an active researcher rejected the findings at the ATIC in saying "We have much better statistics and can tell you we do not see so extreme a feature." The Fermi Telescope built by NASA is an orbiting observatory used to detect high energy outputs‚ originally designed for gamma-rays. Yes gamma-rays like the incredible Hulk only scientifically accurate. Both cases have their flaws as the Fermi telescope was not built to identify the
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