How did the Hindenburg catch fire and explode? On May 6‚ 1937 a German airship (LZ 129 Hindenburg) was landing in Township‚ New Jersey when an electrostatic discharge ignited leaking hydrogen and causing the Hindenburg to catch fire. A electrostatic discharge is a sudden flow of electricity between two charged objects caused by contact. There was a total of 36 casualties which were 13 passengers‚ 22 crewmen‚ and even a worker on the ground. 62 out of the 97 passengers survived the crash. (wikipedia
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break down in our system. In brief‚ the campaign was a failure. It was a failure as we did not successfully push through the Turkish lines to Istanbul‚ and then on to attack the Germans on another front to help the Russians who were suffering heavy causualties at the time. So‚ heres why we retreated: * Second thoughts in Parliament: worth the casualties??? * Supply lines were not working. Men did not get enough stuff * No one knew how to do an amphibious assault: we just rowed to
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IAS 16 PROPERTY‚ PLANT AND EQUIPMENT HISTORY OF IAS 16 August 1980 Exposure Draft E18 Accounting for Property‚ Plant and Equipment in the Context of the Historical Cost System March 1982 IAS 16 Accounting for Property‚ Plant and Equipment 1 January 1983 Effective date of IAS 16 (1982) May 1992 Exposure Draft E43 Property‚ Plant and Equipment December 1993 IAS 16 Accounting for Property‚ Plant and Equipment (revised as part of the ’Comparability of Financial Statements’ project) 1 January 1995 Effective
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transformers to determine the winding resistance‚ Req and leakage reactance‚ Xeq. The aim of this experiment is to measure‚ determine and analyses the parameters of single-phase or three-phase transformer and torque-speed characteristics of rotating machines. Besides that‚ we are required to differentiate the construction and winding of single-phase or three-phase transformer. Through this experiment‚ we have to develop the connection wiring for single-phase and three-phase transformer and
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VOTING AT 16? Neglected for a generation‚ a troublesome political question is back : when should young people be able to vote for candidates in elections? Conservative peer Lord Lucas of Crudwell and Dingwall recently tabled a Private Members Bill in the Lords. It proposed a voting age of 16. And this week‚ for the first time‚ a national coalition has been launched at the Houses of Parliament. The Votes at 16 Campaign is backed by a wide range of groups – from the National Black Youth Forum and
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CHAPTER 16 MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING: A BUSINESS PARTNER OVERVIEW OF BRIEF EXERCISES‚ EXERCISES‚ PROBLEMS‚ AND CRITICAL THINKING CASES Brief Exercises B. Ex. 16.1 B. Ex. 16.2 B. Ex. 16.3 B. Ex. 16.4 B. Ex. 16.5 B. Ex. 16.6 B. Ex. 16.7 B. Ex. 16.8 B. Ex. 16.9 Topic Product vs. period costs Direct material used Cost of goods sold Materials inventory Direct labor journal entries Manufacturing overhead assigned Inventory balances Work in process balances Prime vs. conversion costs B. Ex. 16.10 Partial
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Unit 16 P1 Internal factors for HR planning: Organisational needs: A demand for goods and services in an organisation needs to be considered. If there is a high demand of good/services‚ the organisations’ staffs have to cope with the demand or they need to employ more staff. The organisation can use sales trends to help in planning. Technological changes: Where there is technology available‚ organisations can increase production without necessarily increasing in staff. Staff can be re-trained to
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Brian Sandoval 11/15/10 AP U.S. History Ch: 16 The Union Reconstructed 1. Explain how blacks responded to their former masters after the Civil War had ended. After the Civil War had ended‚ blacks responded to their former masters in two different ways. They would either return to their former masters for work and every time they would leave the plantation they would go farther claiming they didn’t want to stay on the plantation forever. This caused them to continue to have communication
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In "Introducing Liberation Theology‚" by Leonardo Boff‚ and "God is Black‚" by James Cone‚ the authors assert that God is "One who liberates victims from their oppression" and Christianity can be a liberation tool through "Active commitment." Boff holds a loyalty to people as individuals. He points out that "Aid" is a strategy that treats the poor as "Collective objects of charity" and "Reformism" improves the situation of the poor." I draw from this that one treats the symptoms of poverty with
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LCD based Voting Machine GROUP MEMBERS: Abhishek D. Bhendale(301007) Akshay R. Bhosle(301008) Prateek Vijay Chaudhari(301013) Abstract Electronic Voting Machines ("EVM") are being used in Indian General and State Elections to implement electronic voting in part from 1999 elections and in total since 2004 elections. The EVMs reduce the time in both casting a vote and declaring the results compared to the old paper ballot system. Here we present a LCD based voting machine circuit. This cost
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