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    baseball field is half dirt and half grass or all grass. When it comes to the technical part of the field you have distances from base to base and distance from the mound to home. In baseball it is 90 ft from base to base and it is 60ft from the mound to home‚ while in softball it is 60 ft from base to base and 43 ft from the mound to home. The over all design of the field is the same with foul poles in left and right field and with chalk marking the foul lines and batters

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    or defeated foes of war. There are many indications that support this idea in certain burials‚ including severe blows to the skull‚ as well as signs along the neck that indicate death by hanging‚ which can be found in execution cemeteries such as Mound five at Sutton Hoo. Other instances include mass graves (such as the one of Vikings) which have all been decapitated and thrown together. On the other hand‚ there are also many examples that do not follow the typical

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    fierce‚ determined look of focus that some of his teammates- the ones who will be following him in the lineup this inning- have‚ because they’re the guys who have hit well against me in the past. I take my first easy warmup toss from in front of the mound‚ then take it back to back to the rubber to get down to business. On my best day I don’t throw much harder than your grandmother‚ but I get away with it because I can put my mediocre two-seam fastball on the black and I know that when you start to

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    C) Built ceremonial mounds on which to worship their gods. D) Used irrigation canals‚ dams‚ and hillside terracing to water their arid maize fields. 38. All the following belonged to the League of the Iroquois EXCEPT: A) Oneidas. B) Senecas.

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    First of all‚ tide is the rise and fall of water caused by gravitational forces of the moon and sun on the oceans of the earth. Generally speaking‚ tidal cycles contain two high tides and two low tides each day. During the time between high and low tides there will obviously be current flow. The time between high and low tides is a little over 6 hours and the entire tidal cycle repeats itself approximately fifty minutes later each day. So if you know that low tide is at 0800 today you can estimate

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    Chapter 1: The New Global World Intro Before the French Natchez people complained that French treated them like slaves Before 1490s Natchez only knew their people 1502: Nicolas de Ovando replaced Columbus as governor of Hispanola His fleet of ships carried Span adventurers/African slaves which created triracial societies 1949--> Columbus unleashed 200 troops w/ 20 on horseback to terrorize the natives b/c he was upset he couldn’t govern Also released greyhounds to rip indians to pieces

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    What can the study of grave-goods tell us about the nature of society? The Anglo-Saxon ship‚ Sutton Hoo‚ was discovered by Basil Brown in 1939 in a burial mound near Woodbridge‚ Suffolk‚ in southeast England‚ and was excavated in 1939 and in 1965-7. This excavation provided a number of aspects of the study of Anglo-Saxons. It shows aspects of the Christian conversion‚ everyday life‚ religion‚ customs‚ kingdoms‚ myths and legends‚ and the study of the remains of the Anglo-Saxons - their artefacts

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    CRITICAL STUDY OF SOURCES OF HISTORY To study the culture and heritage of a region‚ it is important to know the history of that place‚ for history contains answers to the questions like how did the civilisation started‚ how did a particular custom and tradition arise‚ how did the art and aesthetic values of the region developed‚ etc. The answers to these questions lie within the study of history. However‚ studying history is a complicated process. It is generally not easy to give a very clear

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    left field. I’ve been working on my arm since I could sit up by throwing toys and balls across the room. An occasional tater tot soared through the air from my high chair‚ when mom looked away. Now‚ I have progressed to a 75 mph fast ball from the mound‚ with my mom and several fans watching. The first game of my freshman season‚ the coaches had an abundance of

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    What do we know about the landscape and society of Iron Age Celtic Ireland c.500B.C to c.300AD? From about 300BC the roots of a Celtic Iron Age civilisation became established in Ireland.1 This period observed the emergence of kingdoms and the creation of Ireland’s finest archaeological landscape.2 We have evidence of a very highly organised society‚ of an Ireland that seemed to be flourishing. The first known reference to prehistoric Ireland is made; ‘The climate is unfavourable for the ripening

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