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  • Home Bases And Tool
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    Paleolithic Home Bases: Recent Archaeological History Glynn Isaac Defines "the Homebase Hypothesis" It has been argued since Darwin's day that the great apes were man's nearest living relatives, and as evidence emerged during the late 1960's of the hunting propensities and simple tool use of chimpanzees (Goodall 1986), anthropologists found more and more reason to presume similarity of behavior between modern (e. g., Pan troglodytes or Pan panic us) and ancient varieties of hominids (Tanner 1981...
  • Called's Smoking Banana Peels
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    Smoking Banana Peels Back in the 1960's a lot of young popple took drugs and these people would try anything to get a 'high. ' One Craze was called's smoking Banana Peels 'and that is what this is about. It all started around 1967 when somebody wrote a letter to a hippie paper in Berkeley, California to the ' Berkeley Barb ' and explained how to smoke a banana peel to get high. First you have to peel the banana peel and then scrape the white material that is next to the peel out. You then must p...
  • I Won Prize Machine
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    i Won is Bigger, Better and Faster than ever before! i Won is BIGGER: New Money section - Click here to track multiple portfolios, read analyst recommendations or plan for your retirement. Play i Won Radio - Listen to your favorite music while you surf the Web! Click here to enjoy over 100 music channels - FREE! Plus tons of other great features, resources and search capabilities we just know you " ll enjoy! Check them out iWon is BETTER: New cash prizes in the Prize Machine! We " ve had over 38...
  • Its Velocity And Instantaneous Acceleration
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    Hypothesis: As slope increases, acceleration increases. Introduction: Speed is the distance traveled per unit time, velocity at any given moment is the slope of the tangent line through any relevant point on the graph, acceleration is the rate at which an object changes its velocity, and instantaneous acceleration is acceleration at any particular instant of time or the limiting value vs. / t as the time interval ( t) gets vanishingly small. Speed Formula Velocity Formula Acceleration Formula (a...
  • Bow To Full Arrow Length
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    A daya: An arrow which has missed it's target, Japan. Alborium: A bow made from hazel, 11th century. Anak, Panah: An arrow, Malay. Anchor: The location to which the hand that draws the bow string is positioned to when at full draw. Anchor point: The place where an arrows nock is drawn to before release, usually the chin, cheek, ear or chest. Used to help aiming. Aqua nde-da: The leather bracer of the Omaha. Arbalest, Arbalete, Alb last, Arb last: The European crossbow of the Middle Ages. Arbalet...
  • Request Of The Pope Cardano
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    A report on... Gerolamo Cardano a well-known mathematician, doctor, and astrologist was born in Pavia on September 24, 1501. The illegitimate son of a lawyer Facio Cardano. Gerolamo went to school in his hometown in Pavia until he moved to Padua where he became a Rector of the university. Here he attained a degree in medicine. In 1524 Cardano moved to Sacco where he married and gained the chair of mathematics at Academia Palatina. One decade later he lost this chair too Zuanne da Coi... In the y...
  • Mel Calman
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    Mel Calman (1931-1994) Pocket cartoonist, illustrator and writer. Mel Calman was born in Hackney, London on 19th May 1931, the son of a timber merchant. He was educated at Perse School, Cambridge and studied illustration at St. Martin's School of Art and Goldsmith's College. He was a cartoonist on the Daily Express (1957-63), the Sunday Telegraph (1964-65), the Observer (1965-6), the Sunday Times (1969-84) and The Times (1979-94). He also contributed to Cosmopolitan and House & Garden and founde...
  • Burn Rate Of Black Powder
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    How to Make Black Powder (and other explosives) Introduction Black Powder, also known as Gunpowder, is an explosive that has been around, literally, for centuries. The exact origins of the formula are lost in time, but it is known that the Chinese used Black Powder in weaponry at least 1,000 years ago. Technically, Black Powder burns by a process known as deflagration. This differs from detonation in that Black Powder produces subsonic shock waves, as opposed to the supersonic shock waves produc...
  • Ransom And Weston
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    PerelandraSetting The setting of this story takes place on the planet Perelandra, also known as Venus. This planet consists of many floating islands. The islands are quite beautiful, the clouds are purple and the sky is a golden color, the seawater is green and drinkable, from the distance the water looks like glided glass. The islands are not very stable, and they can shake if water hits the mobile islands. All of the islands are mobile, except the main island, which remains stationary. Maledil...
  • Gives Oroonoko
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    He had learn to take Tobaco; and when he was assured he should dye, he desire they give him a pipe in his mouth, ready lighted, which they did; and the executioner came, and first cut off his members and threw them into the fire; after that, with an ill favoured knife, they cut his ears and his nose, and burn them; he still smoakd on, as if nothing had touched him; then they hacked off one of his arms, and still he bore up, and held his pipe; but at the cutting of his other arm, his head sunk, a...
  • Required Input Clock Frequency
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    Digital Block Design Design introduction The Digital Block is the heart of this digitally controlled function generator. Symmetry and frequency variation is direct result of the design of this block. In this design the emphasis was on simplicity and some target specifications at the top of the frequency variation were compromised in order to achieve greater simplicity. This design achieves 28 frequencies in the range of 100 Hz to 100 k Hz. Whilst the 17 frequencies from the range 100 Hz to 10 k ...
  • Petro Lwa In Ceremonial Order
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    Voodoo is a spiritual tradition which originated in Haiti during the period of French colonial slavery. Early in the colonial history of Hispaniola, the island that is now shared by Haiti an the Dominican Republic, the original Taino and Carib peoples of Haiti were exterminated by the Spanish. Africans of many ethnic lineages were transported by force to Haiti, mainly to serve as agricultural slaves. There was some contact of course between escaped Africans and surviving Tain os, but little is d...
  • Inventors As Hubert Booth And John Thurman
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    The Vacuum Cleaner: A History That Sucks E hren Gerhard Mrs. Anderson English IV March 28th, 2004 In our past, we have always demonstrated an insatiable quest for cleanliness. For example, as early as 2300 BC twig brooms were being used to tidy up peoples cave dwellings. (Inventors) In the early 20th century, the United States was enveloped with the rise of the industrial revolution. Surprisingly, one close to home detail was yet to be improved: home sanitation. Later, a revolutionary idea to su...
  • Machu Picchu Re Discovery Hiram Bingham
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    Introduction High in the Peruvian Andes are ancient ruins located near the headwaters of the Amazon River. In recent years, these ruins have seen an increase in tourist visitations. So what has caused the increase of people to a remote area in the eastern Andes above the Rio Urubamba It is Machu Picchu. Machu Picchu the city built by the Inca during the 1400's, was brought to the worlds attention by Hiram Bingham. This site contains numerous interesting objects the skillful Inca constructed from...
  • Eapont And Dathan
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    Without Remorse The pleading breaths and throbbing heart of the man echoed through the tangibly silent darkness of the crisp midnight air. A shot rang out as he collapsed and struggled to breathe through the warm liquids that filled his severed esophagus. Suffocation overcame him while two more equally fatal shots were delivered into his chest and spinal column. Three pale gray uniforms emerged from their assigned sentinels and, without any disgust or remorse, carried his limp murdered body down...
  • Loyal To Rincewind And The Emperors Hong
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    Interesting Times Interesting Times takes place on a world called Discworld. Discworld is flat and circular and sits on the back of four elephants. The elephants stand on the back of a flying turtle. The character's in the book are; Rincewind, a wizzard (yes that's right, wizzard) who is fluent in many languages, and a failure as a wizard, so he wears a hat that says wizard, Cohen the Barbarian, leader of the band of 80 year old barbarians, Mr. Saveloy, former teacher and educator of Cohen's ban...
  • Comic Albums
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    A cat above the rest Recent comic albums have tended to fall into two camps. There's the 'arty', difficult kind, as typified by Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, winner of a Guardian book award; and then there's the mass-market variety - by the time you read this you " ll probably be wishing Spider-Man would go spin somewhere else. There are connoisseurs of both types, of course, but you get the strong impression that advocates of the former look down on the 'fanboy' follow...
  • Dubious Narrative In Philip Bentley Fs Relationships
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    Imaginative Center uncut, uncensored: Philip Bentley In order to fully understand a piece of literature and authorial intent, the reader must utilize unconventional methods of perspective. In Sinclair Ross f, As for me and my House, the use of perspective becomes climacteric in determining a veridical comprehension of the imaginative center of the novel, Philip Bentley. In order to gain the full understanding of Philip Bentley, the reader must dismiss the biased unreliable narrative of Mrs. Bent...
  • Cereals With Artificial Colors And Flavors
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    Breakfast is the most important meal of the day by eating a nutritious breakfast you better chances of reaching the recommended five servings of fruits and vegetables a day and you " re more likely to get all the nutrients you need. The best breakfast cereals are rich in fiber, something most of us don't get enough of. Sitting down to a healthy, high fiber diet could be the key to maintaining or losing weight. Served hot or cold the label on breakfast cereals supplies nutritional information bas...
  • Sexual Autonomy Within Heterosexual Practice
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    "The construction of female sexuality and it is position in heterosexuality drawing upon recent feminist discussions" An area of great focus in contemporary feminist theory has been looking at the construction of female sexuality, particularly its position in heterosexuality. Of the recent discussions, much of this has been influenced or at least based around Freud's theory of psychoanalysis and the his account of sexual development that follows from it. In very simplistic terms his account plac...

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