defended themselves during a war with Romans by using an equipment called burning mirror and presents some reasons to support this claim. However the lecturer finds all the reasons dubious and provides some explanations to refute them all. first the reading brings up the idea that Greeks did not possessed the technology that was needed to make such a large curved copper sheet and explains that for using a sheet as a weapon like burning mirror‚ it has to be enormously large which was impossible for Greeks
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Burning Chrome In the 1980s William Gibson became famous in the United States and around the world for using the word cyberspace. The short story “Burning Chrome”‚ it was first published in Omni magazine in 1982. The theme in this short story would be technology. It is a consuming nature in our lives. Another theme would be love and loss. The story centers around the meeting occasions encompassing the night that Jack and Bobby hacked the PC program known as Chrome‚ a system of criminal associations
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plant body the grain was took off? What do farmers do to the bigger tons of rice straw left? Is burning the most effective and efficient solution? Does it pose any threat on the environment? Open burning of agricultural waste is a common means of disposing crops and wood waste and for clearing land for farming. In rice‚ the most common way to dispose waste is by in situ burning. Many crops benefit from burning because it is an efficient‚ effective‚ and inexpensive method to remove crop residue. It is
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Importance of Experiment Aim and Hypothesis Results Discussion Discoveries and Explinations Limitations Applications Conclusion Biography Introduction (482 words) This experiment measures the rate of change and efficiency of different burning alcohols. An alcohol‚ any of a class of organic compounds characterized by one or more hydroxyl (−OH) groups attached to a carbon atom of an alkyl group (hydrocarbon chain). Alcohols are among the most common organic compounds. They are used as sweeteners
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you were starting over in an empty house without any of your accumulated belongings‚ what would you need to make it feel like home? That’s the question four of us‚ longtime good friends‚ were discussing over a cup of tea. And the question continued nonstop in my thoughts after our tea-drinking stopped and I went home. Understand – my home is my joy‚ my hobby‚ my comfort. I love the antique clock on the mantel‚ the family photographs that make me smile‚ our wedding-gift silver that can turn a
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ebb of the 1930s‚ a decade of social‚ economic‚ and cultural tumult‚ the decade of the Great Depression‚ William Faulkner ’s short story "Barn Burning" may be read and discussed in our classrooms as just that--a story of the ’30s‚ for "Barn Burning" offers students insights into these years as they were lived by the nation and the South and captured by our artists. This story was first published in June of 1939 in Harper ’s Magazine and later awarded the 0. Henry Memorial Award for the best short
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An Abandoned House The mansion stood isolated from civilisation but seemed to be inhabited by somebody. But who? nobody really knew but I wanted to find out. Standing in front of the furtive gates and rusted black iron gates‚ I could feel the cold gaze of people walking past‚ they could probably smell my fear. Gently pushing the gates open ‚they let out an ear piercing screech. Walking up the long and cracked windy driveway‚ I could see strange shaped hedges and unusual lawn ornaments placed
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bother about it. But‚ what about their descendants and the other beings? The oxygen level in the air goes down‚ but the carbon dioxide level is rising. It is a result of too much logging. The smoke exhausted by vehicles‚ factories‚ and open burning cause the air pollution. The chlorofluorocarbon released by air conditioners and refrigerators; and the nuclear weapons used during wars cause the ozone depletion. More ultraviolet rays from the sun can pass through the ozone layer. These cause the
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SHC represent three-quarters of all the reported incidents. The most common of these cases is the famous "bedroom burnings" in which a victim is found as a pile of ashes with only limbs remaining.
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Pompeian houses. What do they each tell us about the status of their owners? Within Pompeii‚ the size and decorative aspects of someone’s home explained a lot about their monetary wealth and what sort of social status they upheld. People who had money and good social status would decorate their homes with High Greek culture for example myths and mosaics of Greek heroes. Whereas people from a lower class‚ tended to use less grandeur within the decorative style of their homes. The houses that I shall
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