On December 6th 1917 two cargo ships traveling through Halifax harbour collided‚ creating the largest explosion until the detonation of the atomic bomb. The explosion killed many people and devastated Halifax‚ its harbour and the neighbouring towns of Richmond and Darmouth. The towns surrounding the harbour were thriving thanks to the war overseas and their populations grew drastically. Halifax quickly became a "boom" town by 1917‚ only three years after the war. Halifax’s population was about 50
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B-29 bomber‚ the Enola Gay dropped the world’s first Atomic bomb. They left at two forty five a.m and five and a half hours later the bomb exploded one thousand nine hundred feet over a hospital releasing about twelve thousand five hundred Tons of TNT to complete the mission called ‘Little Boy’. About eighty thousand people were killed almost instantly following the blast. Thirty five thousand were injured‚ and sixty thousand people would be dead by the end of the year due to the fallout of events
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STRATEGIC STUDIES What is strategic studies? - Multi-disciplinary academic fields that involved military thinking‚ warfare‚ theories‚ policy & defence planning that deals with the relationship between politics and military power including preparations‚ the threats & use of force and its latent presence in international politic. - It also a commitment to multi-disciplinary approach to achieve political end through the application of military and diplomatic means. Strategic Studies and the Classical
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Spring 12 Spring 12 1 Time Warner Ctr. | New York‚ New York | 10019-016 | United States 1 Time Warner Ctr. | New York‚ New York | 10019-016 | United States Time Warner‚ Inc. Reggie Gossett Time Warner‚ Inc. Reggie Gossett 08 Fall 08 Fall Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 Remote Environment 2 Operating Environment 3 The Company 3 Corporate Strategy 4 SWOT Analysis 5 Porter’s Five Forces Analysis 8 Strategic Business Units 9 Strategic Control
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What are the two types of high explosives? The two types of high explosives are primary and secondary. The difference is very slight‚ primary explosives are easily detonated and are very sensitive to heat and friction‚ secondary explosives‚ like tnt or dynamite‚ are less sensitive to heat and friction. Primary explosives are usually not used in homemade bombs‚ because of their volatile nature. 4. What is a substrate control? Why is it done? Substrate control is an uncontaminated sample of
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deregulation has led to carriers such as airlines (Air France with KLM to in 2004) shipping lines (P&O Nedlloyd and Maersk in 2005) and network restructuring‚ mergers and consolidations (DHL and Exel in 2005‚ Schenker and Bax Global in 2006‚ EGL & TNT Logistics to form CEVA in 2007) in‚ greater efficiencies in the form of labor and equipment‚ and price reductions for shippers. Deregulation has also facilitated the growth of multimodal solutions (Sea-Air‚ Rail-Air etc) to improve freight mobility
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hands of the service station. Question 2- Employment Income Is Karl an Employee or an Independent Contractor? * Distinction not defined in legislation * 5 test system used to determine Relevant Cases: * Bryson v Three Foot Six Ltd * TNT Worldwide Express v Cunningham * Enterprise Cars ltd v CIR 5 Tests 1. Control Test 2. Independence Test 3. Organisation/Integration Test 4. Intention Test 5. Economic Reality/ Fundamentals Test Application of 5 Tests
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1938‚ physicists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman succeeded on the first nuclear fission. Later‚ Frisch and Lise Meitner calculated 200 million electron volts from the fission‚ which means fission could produce more than 20 million times the energy of TNT. Everyone was shocked by the result of the fission. Many people immediately thought of the possibilities of using that power as a weapon. Nazi Germany was in the need of a more powerful weapon‚ so they hired Werner Heisenberg as the director of Germany’s
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top of a tower. This plutonium bomb ’ was exploded thereby generating a very high measure of flash light and a fireball that radiated through 0.6 kilometers (0.37 miles) in 2 seconds. The detonative energy or power was equivalent to 18.6 kilotons of TNT. This fume grew up to an upward height of more than 12 kilometers (7.5 miles)‚ flaming up in the shape of a mushroom. (See page six of this article for sample picture of the mushroom-like fume copied from the movie ’s website‚ vce.com). Forty seconds
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Assignment in Sales management 1. What is Sales Management? -Sales management is a business discipline which is focused on the practical application of sales techniques and the management of a firm’s sales operations. It is an important business function as net sales through the sale of products and services and resulting profit drive most commercial business. 2. What is salesmanship? -Salesmanship is a personal action or effort on the part of an individual which is intended to bring about
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