FOB it’s starting to be used in fashion‚ medicine‚ technology‚ entertainment‚ and military more recently. In fashion: FOB pocket- a small pocket in trousers or waistcoats intended to hold a pocket. Key FOB‚ it’s a medallion used to identify a key ring‚ or a pocket watch to assist in handling. In medicine‚ FOB- Fecal Occult Blood is a lab test to check stool samples for hidden blood in feces. In technology‚ FOB means Frequency Operated Button- a small gray electric security
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The usage of the Cherokee syllabary throughout Diane Glancy’s novel Pushing the Bear is significant because it expresses the importance of maintaining Cherokee cultural ideals as protest towards the United States government. The nine-hundred mile‚ four month journey that the Southeastern Cherokee tribes were forced to make in the winter of 1838 threatened to wipe out an entire culture. On the journey‚ approximately four thousand people lost their lives. As this harrowing story is portrayed in the
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San Vitale Ravenna‚ Italy The Church of San Vitale remains one of the earliest and most prized structures of Byzantine Art. Built in the Etruscan and later Roman city of Ravenna‚ Italy‚ San Vitale stands to be one of the city’s most celebrated possessions. Two-hundred years after Constantine‚ the creator of Byzantium‚ Ostrogoth ruler Theodoric the Great made Ravenna the capital of his kingdom. Theodoric was of Arian faith where Christ was seen as a creation of God the Father and was subordinate
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|CPE Course Title |Current Topics in Management | |Course Code | | |Semester |SPRING-2013 |Credit |T |P | | | |
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Events that led to the Boston Tea Party: After the English won the French and Indian war in 1763‚ the King passed the Sugar Act (a set a tax on sugar and molasses)‚ the Stamp Act (a set tax on all legal papers)‚ and the Townshend Acts (taxes on glass‚ paint‚ oil‚ lead‚ paper‚ and tea.) The reason for passing these acts was to make up for all the money lost during the war and to pay for future costs. The colonists saw this as useless‚ and refused to pay the taxes set on certain items. The British
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rights as other British subjects. Colonial resistance led to violence in 1770‚ when British soldiers opened fire on a mob of colonists‚ killing five men in what was known as the Boston Massacre. After December 1773‚ when a band of Bostonians dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded British ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor‚ an outraged Parliament passed a series of measures (known as the Intolerable‚ or Coercive Acts) designed to reassert imperial authority in Massachusetts. In response‚ a
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Hair Spray After the end of World War II (1939–45)‚ many people considered the 1950s to be the beginning of a modern world‚ full of new products that would make their lives easier. The bright‚ the shiny‚ and the new were valued above all‚ and fashions reflected this. Hair spray‚ made of liquid plastics and vinyl that harden when they are sprayed on the hair to form a kind of shell that keeps the hair from falling out of its style‚ became very popular during the 1950s and early 1960s. Styles were
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There is ancient sport played by the Native Americans centuries ago in North America. This is where‚ to this day‚ the native traditional sport still lives on as... lacrosse. Originally lacrosse was created by the Native Americans hundreds of years ago‚ as far back as the 12th century. Studies about the ancient Native Americans show that almost all the tribes‚ residing in present day Canada and U.S.‚ had a type of stickball or lacrosse. The type of lacrosse more similar to what we play today originated
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Alexander Graham Bell (March 3‚ 1847 – August 2‚ 1922) was an eminent scientist‚ inventor‚ engineer‚ teacher and innovator who is famous for invention of first practical telephone. Alexander Bell was born in Edinburgh‚ Scotland. He had two brothers: Melville James Bell and Edward Charles Bell‚ but they died of the fatal disease called the white plague. His father was Professor Alexander Melville Bell‚ who had written several books on how to speak correctly as well as creating form of
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