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…are usually larger and can be measured up to a half inch in diameter (Galas 68-71). Many weightlifters, runners, and cyclists are on steroids to get stronger. Some athletes who have been caught using steroids say they use them “to make everything fair” (Lemonick…

…to do certain things. It’s a beautiful place with lots of natural land and waterfront. They have an annual kite festival that sounds cool. The state fish is the Weak fish and they hold a Weak Fish Tournament. There’s the Bethany Arts Festival…

…of electrical discharge. During a thunderstorm in 1752, Franklin flew a kite that had a metal tip. At the end of the wet, conducting hemp line on which the kite flew he attached a metal key, to which he tied a non-conducting silk string that he held in his hand…

…to be found as to her fate. In chapter 22, she attends Grandmother Jia's riddle party. Asked to compose a riddle, the answer to Tan-chun's is 'a kite'. This image of a kite as associated with Tan-chun symbolizes her departure ''a thousand miles'' away, her…

…. In 1905 Wegener went to work at the Royal Prussian Aeronautical Observatory near Berlin, where he used kites and balloons to study the upper atmosphere. He also flew in hot air balloons; indeed, in 1906 he and his brother Kurt broke the world endurance record…

…decreasing rapidly along with the elephant and bush cow. Monkeys, chimpanzees, and antelopes swarm. two rare mammals found here are the manatee and the pygmy hippopotamus. In addition to mammals, there are more that 100 species of birds, including eagles, kites…

…like in1748 he invented the Franklin stove. His printing business by now had become so profitable that he retired the same year. Franklin did many experiments with electricity. One of his most famous experiments with the key and the kite should have killed…

…The Peregrine Falcon The peregrine falcon belongs to a group of birds called the Falconiformes. This group includes vultures, kites, hawks, eagles, and falcons. Other than vultures, all of these birds…

…help in 1751. When he is forty-six years old in 1752, Franklin conducts his famous kite experiment and discovers that lightning is actually an electrical discharge. The next year he is awarded the Copley medal for his discovery and is also elected a member…

…feels he shall die on this day. Also, ravens, crows, and kites, all scavenger birds, are circling about he and his army, as if they were already dead. Showing his loss of faith, Cassius says to Brutus before their armies part, “Forever, and forver, farewell…