Black Saturday Black Saturday was a series of bushfires that ignited and burnt in Victoria from Saturday‚ 7th February 2009 - 14 March 2009. As many as 400 individual fires were recorded on 7 February. Following the events of 7 February 2009 and its aftermath‚ that day has become widely referred to as Black Saturday. The majority of the fires were said to be started by fallen or clashing power lines‚ lightning‚ cigarette butts‚ and sparks from a power tools. They burnt over 4‚500 km² of land. Background
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Black Orpheus was an interesting film; it was worth the watch‚ even with its somewhat tragic ending. Being that it is a modern adaptation of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice‚ I knew what to expect. However‚ that did not take too much away from the movie; it had me captivated right from the beginning to the very end. The music played a large part in this captivation‚ and so did the characters. If I had seen the movie without prior knowledge of the Greek legend it was adapted from‚ I would
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This is a good question because prevention of terrorist attacks is determined almost entirely by knowing when and where they will happen. In his book “The Black Swan”‚ Nassim Nicholas Taleb uses the terrorist attacks of September 11‚ 2001‚ to illustrate the importance of what he has termed a “Black Swan” event. A Black Swan is an event with three attributes‚ quoting Taleb: “First‚ it is an outlier‚ as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations‚ because nothing in the past can convincingly
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.-The Black Balloon -1 Introduction. 1- The film The Black Balloon was filmed in Australia and the UK and was produced by (Tristram MiallToni Collette) The story is about the members of a family‚ the parents and two teenage boys‚ as they cope with a unexpected challenge. Complications arise because one of the teen age boys‚ Charlie‚ is intellectually disabled. The family has relocated to a new area. Because the father has a new positing in the army. Thomas is turning 16.Thomas finds Charlie an
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“The Black Cat” "Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives‚ than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart--one of the indivisible primary faculties‚ or sentiments‚ which give direction to the character of Man" (Poe). Humans always seem to have a dominant evil side that can slowly creep up in any situation. This wickedness is prominently displayed throughout Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Black Cat.” In this short story‚ Poe uses many literary elements such as foreshadowing
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Black holes are the most mysterious objects that modern physics predicted. Event horizon is the edge of the black hole. If anybody attempts to cross the black hole he or she will never come back. The holes are involved in a broad range of astrophysical occurrence‚ including majority of the active events in the space. John Michelle‚ a British mathematician‚ initially visualized black holes in 1783. He called them dark stars and his explanation was based on Newton’s laws of gravity. Employing Newton’s
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Black holes are one of the most fascinating and unrealistic seeming objects in the world to many people. They seem to be right out of a science fiction novel‚ along with white holes‚ and wormholes. So far white holes and wormholes are still only science fiction. A white hole is a reverse of a black hole. And a wormhole is a combination of a white a black hole said to be a place of time travel. However‚ even quite a long time ago some members of our society realized that the black hole is not science
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What can one learn from the story Black Orpheus? Are their even lessons to be learned from this piece? I believe so. In this story the audience becomes witness to predestination and the positive and negative effects in which love can bring. At the beginning of the story Orpheus and his then fiancé‚ Mira‚ seek a marriage license. When Orpheus told the man his name he the man immediately turned to Mira and said “And you must be Eurydice?” This infuriated Mira‚ as it would any other women about to marry
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Indian Black Money Abroad In Secret Banks and Tax Havens Second Report Of The Task Force on the steps to be taken by India Members Shri Gurumurthy‚ Chartered Accountant‚ Chennai Shri Ajit Doval‚ former Director Intelligence Bureau‚ Delhi Prof R.Vaidyanathan‚ Professor of Finance Indian Institute of Management‚ Bangalore Shri Mahesh Jethmalani‚ Senior Advocate‚ Mumbai Submitted to BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY 1 I. The First Interim Report The first Interim Report of the Task Force appointed
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World War I‚ American citizens enjoyed an exciting‚ carefree life during the prosperous Roaring Twenties. The economy was at its all-time high. In this glorious time‚ the American economy was booming. Since feelings of worry and doubt had largely faded‚ American citizens found themselves purchasing the finest things in life. Unfortunately‚ this all came to end when the stock market crashed on October 29th‚ 1929 (also referred as Black Tuesday). The stock market was at its all-time low‚ costing investors
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