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    Was It Worth It Mac? Apple products are known the world around, but do they really deserve the popularity and recognition they receive? Apple was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1977 and went public in 1980 (Finkle, and Mallin). Soon after opening the company released some wonderful new products. In 1977 the Apple II was introduced and was the first of the PCs, in 1991 they set the standard for laptops and in 2007 they released the world changing iPhone (Cusumano). Being a front…

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    US Monitor Weapons

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    Armor and weaponry The U.S.S. Monitor was armed with two eleven inch Dahlgren smoothbores located in a 20 foot in diameter iron turret that could spin 360 degrees. The turret, which was covered in eight inches of iron plates was rotated by a vertical shaft that was connected to a 25 horsepower steam engine through a gear system. The rotation of the turret was controlled by one man under the deck. Over all the turret was nine feet high and weighed 120 tons. The cannons fired through oval gunports…

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    Vietnam War, the Army used the old 60-inch searchlight from the World War II era, and the newer 30-inch searchlight. The Army realized that both the 60-inch and 30-inch searchlights were susceptible to small arms fire. For this reason, Air Defense crews changed from the 60-inch or 30-inch searchlight to the 23-inch VSS-1 Xenon Searchlight. The Army originally had the 23-inch VSS-1 Xenon Searchlight mounted on the M48 tank. They easily modified the 23-inch searchlight to fit on the M151A1…

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    Descriptive detail, repetitive phrases, and the passing of time are used to convey a suspenseful mood in both the stories “The Cask of Amontillado,” by Edgar Allan Poe, and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell. A suspenseful mood of the story can be portrayed by displaying a sense of time passing. For example, when Montresor was building up the walls of the recess, he heard the moaning of Fortunato, but then afterword mentions, “There was then a long and obstinate silence” (Poe 11). This…

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    Tracy Compton then told me that the gate to trailer has a wench attached to it with a two inch strap to lower and raise the gate. Tracy Compton father Jimmie Compton told that there is a lock on this locked near the tail gate. Jimmie Compton said that he believes that his Texas driver license 06062726 is imprinted somewhere on the tongue of…

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    University of Florida, compared the growth and size of the Megalodon to that of current day Great White sharks. The research estimates that each inch of tooth size equals about 10-feet in length of the animal. That means that a 2-inch tooth from a Great White (may not seem big, but just get out your ruler), would be a shark 20-feet in length. This puts the 6-inch fossilized Megalodon teeth in the mouth of a shark 60-feet in length. Based on other comparisons, researchers also believe that the…

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    engine block while the V8 was idling. The Rough Country shocks were barely compressed by the 1500 pound body that the 1994 4x4 Ford F150 was sculpted from. The chassi was visible as the light blue square body Ford sat on a 6 inch lift kit with 35 inch all terrain tires and 12 inch solid black rims. Its guts were showing revealing its light gray cotton interior. It had carpet on the top of the dashboard along with an RPM gage with a red needle that roared up the gage when you pressed the gas…

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    Gun-Personal Narrative

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    and hit it in the left leg. He went back home and brought the bad news. Then about 3-4 years later his dad said he was strong enough to use the family gun, a beautiful 375 magnum 12x13 optical zoom scope and a waping 4 ½ inch cartridge with a nice 2 inch bullet, the gun had 2 inch thick padded stock with a bolt action that was just greased along with with a spec ops tripod and shotgun sights of course since this gun loads and unloads through the top it was…

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    requires several weeks of soaking, it's a fairly simple process you can do at home.� Let's learn how to create your own pickles. To make quick, sweet pickles, gather all of the necessary ingredients.� First, you'll need eight pounds of three- to four-inch pickling cucumbers.� Next, measure out 1/3 cup of canning or pickling salt and 4 � cups of sugar.� Pour 3 � cups of vinegar into a measuring cup.� You'll also require two teaspoons of celery seed, one tablespoon of whole allspice, and two…

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    Comparing Two Tractors

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    similarities between the 806 and the 4020. I am an International guy and will always be. I have two 806’s and will always like it better than the 4020. The 4020 and 806 both had multiple engine configurations. In the 806 you could have a 301 Cubic inch gas motor which also could be run on Propane if covered. You could also get the 806 in a bigger 361 cubic…

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