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- 2491: Discoveries of Scientists of the "Age of Reason"
- ... important of these three scientists was Galileo Galilei, whom looked out his telescope one night and saw something very dangerous to the church. He saw the Jupiter had a moon which orbited it. This meant big trouble because it proved that everything did not revolve around the Earth -- contradicting the church. Galileo was attacked and pressured to deny this evidence the rest of his life. The final great thinker of the ...
- 2492: The Rain Forest - Example of a Flourishing Ecosystem
- ... of the rainforest is the Hummingbird. The general outlook on these birds is that they are small. This is true in most cases, however the largest of it's kind the "Giant Hummingbird" is as big as a sparrow. In comparison the sword billed hummer is one of the smallest birds, but's it's beak is larger than it's body. Beaks on hummingbirds come in a variety of shapes ...
- 2493: The Laser
- ... role in the military. Unlike what is seen in science fiction movies where a laser gun could be used as a hand weapon, using today's technology lasers that powerful would have to be as big as the great pyramids in Egypt. Instead, we use them for range-finding devices or guiding weapons or missiles. An example of a range finding device is a special kind of binoculars that sends out ...
- 2494: Acid Rain: Cause and Effects and Issues
- ... be carefully taken into consideration. The chemical reaction of changing sulfur and other substances to sulfuric acid results in the formation of other substances like sulfur dioxide. This causes acid rain. Therefore, there is a big problem about sulfuric plants causing damage to our environment as the plant is a source of sulfur emission leading to that of acid rain. 6) Water Supplies Still another factor is the closeness of the ...
- 2495: Hail
- ... certain conditions. Hail can cause serious danger to people and property. Hail is rain packed into round or irregularly shaped pieces of ice called hailstones. Hailstones can be as small as a pea or as big as a grapefruit, sometimes even bigger than that. Most hailstones are about one inch in diameter. The bigger hailstones usually have bumps on them where they have grown more. The most layers ever found on ...
- 2496: How Earthquakes Are Caused
- ... rises due to its kinetic energy. So, as the pressure get to be too much, the molten material goes up. As you may already know, molten material mostly does not just come out of a big hole in the ground. It comes out of mountains. When the molten material is pushing up through to the surface of the land, the earth doesn't just move apart to let it through. The ...
- 2497: The Grasslands
- ... another scene. The sky is almost the only thing you see with gentle rolling hills all around you. Even rows of wheat stretch into the distance. You are near a white picket fenced farm with big cottonwoods shading it from the scorching sun. You have just visited a collective farm in the Soviet Union, a Masai village in Africa and Abilene, Kansas, which is located in the U.S. These three ...
- 2498: The Downy Woodpecker
- ... back down in the same position, a more akward motion. The downy woodpecker gets its name of downy because of its soft fine feathers. The downy, smallest of the woodpecker clan, is not even as big as a robin. It is only about the size of the of a house sparrow at six inches tall. The downy can be separated from all other woodpeckers ~ except the hairy ~ by the broad, white ...
- 2499: The Dog
- ... water in the respiratory canals. The dog drinks by moving its tongue back and forth and in form of a spoon. Like that it impulses the water into the mouth. The dog keeps the big chunks of food still with its anterior paws which serve as "hands". To eat solid food, the dog moves its head into the food source, penetrating the food in its mouth. The ...
- 2500: The Praying Mantis
- ... the source, we shall call this style "The Gates of Praying Mantis" (Tang Lang Men). Wang Lang and the abbot developed twelve characters - guiding principles of the praying mantis fighting technique: zhan (contacting), nian (sticking), bang (linking), tie (pressing), lai (intruding), jiao (provoking), shun (moving along), song (sending), ti (lifting), na (grabbing), feng (blocking), bi (locking). Also they developed formal sets of praying mantis technique, such as: Beng bu (crushing step ...
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