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    submarine was built by a Yale graduate by the name of David Bushnell. He named it the Turtle because it looked like a sea turtle floating vertically in the water. This ship was made out of a wood hull that was eight foot long and was just big enough for one operator. It was entirely hand powered and featured lead ballast tanks for balance. This craft was manned by Ezra Lee‚ and on September 7 1776‚ Lee piloted the Turtle unnoticed out to the sixty-four gun HMS Eagle that was stationed in New York Harbor

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    Unit 3 Writing Assignment - Survey of the sciences Navigation Well pigeons and sea turtles are not the only creatures on this Earth to use a magnetic compass. But I found that sea turtles use inclination angle and intensity to follow certain routes in the ocean‚ they call these routes gyres. The gyre is known to be warm and have lots of food‚ but where the gyre is cold there is less food and turtles that follow these routes tend to die. Also a lot of these creatures tend to have a substance in

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    redesigned two more times from 1620 to 1624. In 1775 the first propelled self reliant submarine was invented in Connecticut and funded by the United States. It was named Turtle due to its resemblance to a turtle. David Bushnell inventor of Turtle was an American patriot and had his designs approved by George Washington. Turtle was the world’s first submarine to be used in battle. Turtle’s design was simple yet very efficient‚ it consisted of two wooden pieces secured with two metal bands and was

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    relevant even to the modern society. 1. THE MERCHANT AND HIS IRON    In a certain town‚ there lived a merchant’s son by the name of jveernadhana. Because he had lost all his money‚ he made up his mind to leave that part of the country and go somewhere else‚ for: ’A man who has formerly lived in great style but now lives in great misery‚ Is looked down upon by all.’      Now in his house‚ the merchant’s son had a very heavy iron balance‚ that he had inherited from his forefathers. He deposited

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    Artificial Breathing Aids - Iron Lung The Iron lung was invented in 1929 by Professor Phillip Drinker (1893-1977). The device performs the function of the muscles that control breathing. It was one of the first of several inventions designed to keep people alive who are unable to breathe unassisted. Pulmonators During the 1920s people who could not breathe on their own were aided by a pulmotor. This was a machine similar to fireplace bellows. It inflated and deflated the lungs by forcing air

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    1. How does the Stone Monkey become King? The Monkey clan challenges him to go through the waterfall and find whats on the other side and if he does he shall be king. 2. What does the Stone Monkey see on the other side of the waterfall? A paradise{iron bridge‚chamber filled with stone items} 3. Why does the Stone Monkey leave his brethren? His Brethren told him that he could not go and to find his way alone. When monkey heard this‚ he saw nothing for it but to say goodbye. 4. What does the Patriach

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    In Turkle’s article‚ she talks about children’s reaction of robot turtle and the real turtle. They prefer to have a fake turtle rather than the real one. Turkle mentions “But the point is that they are real.That’s the whole point”(Turkle 266). Even though the robot toys would never die and always be energetic‚ they are all fake. Robots provide the

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    incorporated with this time of year. This is followed by a joyful wedding in section two. The mood‚ however‚ then shifts for the worst in section three‚ turning to the terror of a fire. The fourth section finishes the poem off with death represented by the iron bells. Literary devices are used throughout each section to describe the mood and make one feel like it’s real. Section one is all about Christmas. The words “merriment” (Line 3)‚ “delight” (Line 8)‚ “twinkle” (Line 7)‚ “jingling and tingling” (Line

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    Foods Increases Hemoglobin Level In Your Body ← TheMallRoad ... themallroad.com/?p=45‎ May 17‚ 2013 - You body needs iron to make haemoglobin Deficiency of ... Here are some kind of foods that improve your haemoglobin level. ... It is considered that drinking coffee or tea with meals may also ... white beans or navy can provide from 2.1-3.9 mg of iron per half cup. ..... I receive compliments quite frequently. 7 - Vicki H - Travellerspoint vicki-h.travellerspoint.com/s31/‎

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    outside. He says‚ “My first mistake‚ the one that opened the floodgates‚ was losing my grip on the keys”. They could have escaped the trouble they were in if the keys were with him. Fleeing‚ after hitting the greasy guy over the head with the tire iron‚ he swims through the murky lake where he is getting tangled in moss and encounters a dead biker floating in the water. The author is proposing that society’s view on rebels is glorified. A subtheme is the corruption of teens from peer pressure is

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