------------------------------------------------- Etymology The term tsunami comes from the Japanese 津波‚ composed of the two kanji 津 (tsu) meaning "harbour" and 波 (nami)‚ meaning "wave". (For the plural‚ one can either follow ordinary English practice and add an s‚ or use an invariable plural as in the Japanese.[7]) Tsunami are sometimes referred to as tidal waves‚ which are unusually high sea waves that are triggered especially by earthquakes. [8] In recent years‚ this term has fallen out of
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Contributors of the Periodic Table of Elements The First International Congress of Chemists took place in September 1860 in Karlsruhe‚ Germany to review scientific matters that there was little agreement to. Following this congress led to the development of the periodic table of elements. Top contributors to the periodic table included Staislao Cannizzaro‚ Dmitri Mendeleev‚ Henry Gwyn-Jeffreys Moseley‚ John William Strutt‚ William Ramsay‚ Friedrich Ernst Dorn‚ and Glenn Seaborg. Stanislao Cannizzaro
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“The World Turned Upside Down: Reconstruction in Texas” 1. Introduction: The Myth vs. the Reality of Reconstruction 2. Wartime Reconstruction 3. Postwar Reconstruction 4. Congressional Reconstruction 5. Undoing Reconstruction 6. Enduring Impacts of Reconstruction in Texas _______________________________________________________________________ The Myth vs. the Reality of Reconstruction The Myth: At the end of the Civil War‚ in which Southerners had fought valiantly against the brutal
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Venus Williams was born on June 17‚ 1980‚ in Lynwood‚ California. Her father was a former sharecropper who introduced Williams to tennis on the public courts near Compton‚ LA. She turned pro in 1994‚ and has since won seven Grand Slam titles‚ including five Wimbledon championships‚ as well as four Olympic gold medals (three with her sister‚ Serena). Williams lives in Palm Beach‚ Florida. She was born Venus Ebony Starr Williams on June 17‚ 1980‚ in Lynwood‚ California. Since turning pro in 1994‚ Venus
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geometrical representation of the periodic table. John Newlands proposed the Law of Octaves which states the elements repeat the chemical properties after every eighth element. Lothar Meyer and Demetriv Mendeleev published their own periodic table. Mendeleev arranged the elements in order of increasing atomic weight and grouped the elements of similar properties together. William Ramsay and Lord Rayleigh discovered the noble gases‚ which were added to the periodic table as group 0. Ernest Rutherford showed
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Periodic Table Research Task By Kevin Shaji Part A. You are to research the task below and submit as a written piece of work i) John Dalton proposed his atomic theory in 1808. Outline his theory. (4 marks) ii) Explain which part of Dalton’s atomic theory was later found to be incorrect. (3 marks) iii) Dalton developed a way to measure the relative atomic mass of the different elements. Using examples research and describe the meaning of the term ‘relative atomic mass’. (3 marks)
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nature. Nature is regarded as the source of a child’s experience and imagination. In the Wordsworth poems “Tintern Abbey‚” “I wandered lonely as a cloud“ and “My Heart Leaps Up‚” the relationship between the Wordsworthian child and imagination is one that allows for one to develop a strong bond with nature. The child’s imagination allows them to form an intense bond with nature. In Tintern Abbey‚ Wordsworth has several boyish encounters where his emotions are prime as opposed to intellectual endeavours
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Setting Idea/s - Conveys the impression that Darwin is a place where people who don’t fit in come together | Topic sentence/s – the distinctively visual setting in Maestro assists in representing/capturing the identity of Darwin of the 1960’s. | Evidence | Techniques | Effect | After a difficult days work at the hospital not long after arriving in Darwin‚ Paul’s father remarks rather irately that “All the drifters”‚ the misfits”‚ “All the scum in the country has somehow risen to this
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Influences on the Constitution Athena Falconer HIS/301- United States Constitution April 4‚ 2015 University of Phoenix‚ James Newman‚ BSDH1GHGY4 Influences on the Constitution Documents Summary What was its influence on the Constitution? Magna Carta The Magna Carta was a document Issued and signed by Kind John of England in 1215. It was recognized particular natural rights. “The Magna Carta did not declare rights for all Englishmen” (Hall & Feldmeier‚ 2013). The Magna Carta was originally crafted
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their poems and works that many of us today have analyzed and even criticized. During this time‚ several poets were kind of actively involved in a literary movement known as Romanticism and they were William Blake‚ William Wordsworth‚ John Keats‚ Samuel Coleridge and other famous poets in his time. William Blake as one of the members of the movement can be considered as a very radical poet during that time for he was somehow preoccupied with the issues of liberalism‚ radicalism and also nationalism
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