Year 8 Ancient History-EgyptResearch and Imaginative accountThe Greatest pharaoh who ever livedThe story of my deathIt all began on one rainy day. I was 26 and I was drinking from a golden goblet‚ which had my name engraved on it‚ when suddenly‚ I began to feel dizzy and I lost my balance. Before I knew it‚ I found myself on the floor. The goblet that I drank from had pure venom in it from the most poisonous snake of Egypt. I saw my life roll past my eyes. I even had some visions‚ in which I was
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tranquil southeast region of Washington State located in the Cascade Mountains‚ began to tremble with earthquake activity lasting until the afternoon of the 26th of March. This was the first of many warnings to geographers and local authorities of the impending dangerous eruption coming from the normally silent Mount Saint Helens. The richter magnitude range was 2.6-4.2. There were 142 recorded earthquakes over 2.4 in the 24 hours between March 26 and 27th. The volcano began to spew ash at 1236. (Girty
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Historical Recount: Marco Polo and his voyage to China. In 13th and 14th centuries‚ many people believed that Marco polo and his family have been one of the first Europeans to visit China with a famous book The Travels of Marco Polo that had been written by a writer called Rustichello. The most appealing thing about Marco Polo is that Marco and his father were not explores. Marco Polo was born in 1254 in Venice‚ Italy. He grew into a wealthy merchant family and had an education‚ which would have
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for no good reason‚ she had contradicted her own optimism. Voltaire could not understand how in any way it was necessary and beneficial for Madame du Châtelet to die. Another event that solidified his stance was the great Lisbon earthquake of November 1‚ 1755. This earthquake claimed tens of thousands of lives. When Voltaire heard news of innocent children crushed beneath the rubble‚ he responded with a cry of protest against the belief that God directs everything in the world for the best. Leibniz’s
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Impact Approximately 57 deaths‚ about $1.1 billion in property damage; caused a partial collapse of the volcano’s flank‚ deposited ash in eleven states and five Canadian provinces. With no immediate precursors‚ a magnitude 5.1 earthquake occurred and was accompanied by a rapid series of events. Mount St. Helens produces small to large explosive eruptions‚ which send varying quantities of ash and tephra into the atmosphere Tephra (rock fragments and particles ejected by a volcanic eruption
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January 12th 2010 4:53PM‚ the phone rang….Hispaniola whom which I call Haiti was bawling. Her heart‚ Port-au-prince‚ was completely ruined‚ she bleed and bleed and heard the bones intensively crashing brutally against each other until they converted into ashes. Her green dress metamorphosed into a white costume‚ her veins and arteries were ripped… she had no shelter. Once she realized that her brain was damaged‚ a depression impulsively engulfed her body and left her with nothing more than a reprieving
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Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you and how what lessons did you learn? I have not had many or significant failures in life‚ but not being able to complete events or losing in a competition is failure to me. May it be small things that don’t matter to others but they seem heart breaking to me. I always want to be on top of everything that leads me up to my standards. My eyes haven’t cried upon failure but I also don’t want them that to happen ever in my
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The New Madrid Earthquake lasted from 1811-1812 in New Madrid‚ Missouri. Geophysicist Mark Zoback had noted that the earthquakes were possibly caused by fault movement. On December 16‚ 1811‚ everyone in the New Madrid region was awaken at 2:15 AM by a big earthquake. The earthquake was felt from New England all the way over to Canada. Loud noises‚ and strange animal behavior were a part of the New Madrid Earthquake. House animals that had been tamed were acting crazy‚ while wild animals became tame
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deadliest earthquake in history killed 840‚000 people‚ But many other earthquake have caused the dead of more than 100‚000 people and isn’t unusual‚ even in modern times‚ for an earthquake death toll to reach 20‚000 to 20‚000 people with hundreds of thousands left homeless. There are four factors that affect the casualty rate and economic impact of earthquake: magnitude‚ location‚ quality of construction of building‚ and timing. Magnitude The magnitude‚ or strength‚ of an earthquake is measured
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A Project Report On “Earthquake Vibration Control In Building Frames” Submitted in partial fulfillment of The requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Engineering Department of Civil Engineering i ABSTRACT The design of building and bridge structures for earthquake resistance by the ductile design approach is covered‚ including performance criteria‚ structural configuration‚ design seismic forces‚ mechanisms of post-elastic deformation‚ capacity design‚ detailing of reinforcement
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