On reaching land, it sucks most of the water out of the harbor; then, the creature may rise more than 100 feet tall and flatten whole villages. ... Some tsunami many reach heights of 100 feet or more and can race across the ocean at 500 miles an hour. Oddly, in deep water, the waves are only a few feet high but upon approaching shore, this increase in energy and height. ... If the ground shakes under your feet or you hear a warning in this regard, repeat the warning to others and quickly get to higher ground. ...

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Right now, the rate of global warming may be 100 times faster than it has ever been. ... Within the next 50 to 100 years, the earth will continue to heat up hotter than it has been in the past million years. ... So warmer ocean water, with added melt-water from glaciers, will rise by twenty inches to five feet in the next 50 to 100 years. Just a 1 foot rise in sea level can cause shorelines to recede a hundred feet, and in flat terrain, a thousand feet. If ocean waters rise several feet, whole beaches could wash away. ...

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If the teacher truly cares about the students' future, then they will try to do their best to help the student(s) get back on their feet. ... For example, on one of my recent math tests, I knew that I should've gotten 100 percent, but I was very disappointed to find out that the teacher had given me 94 percent. Even though this is an excellent grade, I still believed that my work deserved 100 percent. ...

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In addition, affected people may have high arches of the feet, knock-knees, and a curved spine, or, scoliosis. ... Some symptoms include: nearsightedness, flush across the cheeks, being very thin, long limbs, high-arched feet, knock-knees, mental retardation, and psychiatric disease. ... Vegetables that are High in methionine/ per 100 gm (more than 25mg - 50mg of methionine/ 100 gm of the product) Broccoli, Mushroom, Cauliflower, Avocado, Bean sprouts, potatoes, Vegetables that are High in methionine/ per 100 gm (more than 50mg of methionine/ 100 gm of the product) Spinach, Green Peas,...

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Although, the media may portray my culture as they do, not everything being said on the TV or written in a book is 100% accurate. ... When describing how we listen to gospel music, the media insist that it is up to beat and something to catch the holy ghost to and that when a gospel song comes on we overly clap our ends and stomp our feet before we catch the spirit and start overly dancing all over the place. ... Also, most of the stereotype are not a 100% accurate or might even be over-exaggerated like the "black people only eat fried chicken" term. ...

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The sea lions have hind feet and flippers than point forward. ... Sea lions may descend in exploration of food to a depth of 80 to 100 fathoms. ... Sea lion pups are four feet long at birth and weigh forty to fifty pounds. ... Their length can range from eight to 12 feet. ...

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The Olive Ridley The Lepidochelys olivacea or more commonly known as the Olive Ridley is the smallest of the sea turtles usually weighing less than 100 pounds and is named for its olive colored shell. ... Full grown turtle are usually between 24 to 28 inches (62-70 cm) in length, and weigh between 77 and 100 pounds (35-45 kg). ... This omnivorous turtle searches in surface waters or dives to depths of at least 150 meters (500 feet) to feed on shrimp, crabs, sea urchins, mollusks, tunicates, and jellyfish. ...

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Example 1.1: Calculating Accuracy If differential level of a job site measuring 900.00 feet is ordered to third order accuracy. ... This Topographic Survey of the field behind Taconic Hall at Dutchess Community College is set up as a 100 foot by 100 foot grid with all points set at 50 foot intervals. Starting at BM "C " which has a known elevation of 200.00 feet, the automatic level is positioned and set up at a distance of approximately 150 feet towards the grid layout, a Back Sight (BS) measurement is taken with rod operator located at the benchmark. ... For the purposes of the topographic m...

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The height of Hagia Sophia in diameter is 102 feet (31 meters), from ground to floor and up is 185 feet (56 meters), from east to west is 250 feet (76 meters), from north to south is 253 feet (72 meters). ... The eight massive piers are approximately 100 square meters. ...

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A New England machinist obtained the first American windmill patent in 1854. Until 1920, wind power was a major form of energy in the western United States, essential to development. Prior to 1920, thousands of windmills were put up across the Great Plains and helped settle the West. Windmills were...

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One example of this in the Jungle, is where a character is swindled out of money, when he goes to a saloon and only had a $100 dollar bill to pay with. ... "Bubbles of carbonic acid gas will rise to the surface and burst, and make rings two or three feet wide."(100). ...

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I then grabbed the steering wheel, gripped the shifter, pressed the clutch, and burnt rubber for about 100 feet. I began to shift down to second, and then to third, looking at the gauges I noticed that I was at 100 mph in just about 8 seconds. ...

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The Clermont was 142 feet long, 18 feet wide, and drew 7 feet of water. ... Because there is less friction to overcome, a team plodding along a towpath could pull a canal barge with a 100-ton load and make better time over long distances than it could pulling a single ton in a wagon on the finest road. Although canals were as old as Egypt, only about 100 miles of them existed in the United States as late as 1816. ...

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The benches are high and no one's feet reached the concrete floor. If our nerves didn't show in our mindless whistling or blank stares, our feet were dead giveaways. ... The planes stopped 100 yards or so in front of the shed, their propellers still spinning, blowing powerful blasts of warm air at us students. ... Everything that we learned worked; like the instructor said, "just keep your knees and feet together and you'll be good to go." ...

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It has an elevation of 155 feet and has an estimated mass at 100 million tons and a volume of 2.9 billion cubic feet. By the year 2005, when the landfill is projected to close it's elevation will reach 505 feet, making it the highest elevation on the eastern seaboard form Florida to Maine (Moore 68). ...

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These were buildings that were built on a standard lot twenty-five feet (eight meters) wide and one hundred feet (thirty meters) deep. ... Creating a design that would do this was hard to do after the tenement law of 1879 that constrained the Manhattan lot size 25 by 100 feet. ...

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The mature tree size is anywhere from 90 to 100 feet tall, and spreads 50 to 70 feet. ... The White Birch is a small to medium sized deciduous tree which grows to 70 or 80 feet in height. ... The feet are a dull orange and its beak is yellow. ... Their feet relate to humans, because they touch the ground in a "heel, toe, heel, toe, etc." pattern. ... The length of this bear's body is usually 5-6 feet from nose to tail and 32-38 inches from paw to the top of its shoulder. ...

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Currently Juneau airport has less than 500 feet from either side of the runway centerline and only 500 feet beyond the end of the runway. Regulations for this category runway are 1,000 feet from each end and at least 500 feet from the center line. ... During Instrument Meteorological Conditions when cloud bases are below 337 feet and visibility is less than one mile; these conditions exist 1.8% of the time. ... With one runway just over 5,000 feet long and only 75 feet wide there are many improvements planned for this airfield. Tooele Valley's runway is planned for an expansion to 6,...

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On Feb. 1, 2003 the Columbia Shuttle broke apart in flames about 203,000 feet over Texas, 16 minutes before it was supposed to touch down in Florida. ... The shuttles were designed to fly 100 missions. ...

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Over the last 100 years the global temperatures have been increasing slowly but steadily. ... With the high temperatures the polar ice caps could melt and cause the sea water level to go up 1 to 3 feet. ...

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Holes Holes by Louis Sachar's is a cool book. Stanley Yelnats is an unusual hero-dogged by bad luck coming from an ancient family curse. He is overweight, and unlikely to stick up for himself when challenged by the class bully; even though he is a really big kid for his age. He ...

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"Cities and Reformers" During the last part of the 19th-century, America was the place to be. The population count almost doubled before the beginning of the new century. People poured into the country's cities lured here by glitter, entertainment, excitement, friends, relatives, and most impo...

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Fallen Angels Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers, begins with the introduction of an African American 19-year-old boy who lives in Chicago. Recently he's joined the army and been assigned domestic work as he hoped for due to his bad leg and unreliable strength on it. Then, by accident of pap...

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Before a game you want carbohydates(excuse the spelling) and minerals.Carbohydrates are a source of energy.One of the highest sources of carbrohydates is Pastas.Pastas store carbohydrates in you stomach for about 3 hours.In wich you could use for a soccer game.Gatorade would also be good but I'mn ot a 100% on that one. ... Dribble Drills Place 6 cones about 5 feet apart.Dribble through them with just your left.Then dribble through them with just your right.Next dribble with both feet through them.Once you have that down move the cones closer and when you can do iT move them closer...

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A good example of that is when Jane says (pg. 437); "Just as if their souls had passed through the grave and they stood at God's feet, equal-as they are!". ... Then she won't be dependent on him, and she can feel not only an economic freedom, but also knowing that she can stand on her own feet. ... This might have been the case 100 years ago, but today it is reality; at least in some parts of the world. ...

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