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…concern. The earliest forms of pollution were different from the forms of pollution of today. Documented pollution in the Great Lakes began in the early 1900’s. Factors such as tree cutting, and pieces of unwanted wood washed away by wind and rain…

…was killed. Machiavelli seems to approve of the terrible spectacle of “Remirro placed in two pieces in the square at Cesena, with a block wood and a blood-stained sword at his side”. (p.26) Machiavelli finds it admirable when a leader uses his power…

…calculate their BMI by dividing their weight in pounds by their height in inches squared and multiplying the resulting number by 704.5 (Woods 98). A person who weighs 164 pounds and is 68 inches would do the following calculation: 164/4624 x 704.5 = 25 BMI. A BMI…

…the two cantievers. Many modern bridges over motorways use cantilevers in pairs. They have a cantilever coming out from each side and a short beam between them. Suspension bridges originated as rope and wood structures in various parts of the world. Modern…

…heals; a tiny opening is created by inserting a splinter of wood to allow urination. Thus virginity, which is considered especially important by Moslem men, can be proven. These dangerous operations result in permanent damage: hemorrhage and shock, which may…

…and take blacks away from their family and sent to the ships. The black people were then all forced to sleep on slabs of wood, to eat just enough to keep them alive and to take orders from the white people. The ships were then sent to other countries to later…

…for the first time in this decade. Everyone had a surfboard, or should I say a pier. These surfboards were around ten feet tall and as thick as a drawer. They were made out of wood with a thin co! ating of fiberglass. The waters were packed and the terms…

…year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did…

…of the sculptures are done in wood but are also made of metal, stone, terra-cotta, mud, beadwork, ivory, and other materials. It is found in many parts of Africa but mainly in western and central Africa. Many ancient rock paintings have been found in Southern…

…German settlers came to North America in the late 17th century, they settled mainly in Pennsylvania. Germans built large, lasting houses of wood and quarry stone. Dutch settlers came, more than a century earlier, to the New World. Their first…