The explosions were the largest domestic, non-nuclear explosion in history. ... PEPCONs main customers were NASA, and the US military, both need AP for their solid rocket boosters. ... The AP was stored in a variety of containers, most of AP at PEPCON was stored in aluminum tote bins, holding about 5000 pounds of AP each. ... In fact, welding and cutting activities have caused almost one fire per year. ... Another factor which allowed the fire to spread so easily, is the fact that most of the plant was made out of steel structures, covered in fiberglass panels. ...

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There are certain groups of people who don't believe parts of history. Actual accounts of history that are documented and occurred are completely disregarded. ... What are facts without opinions? ... We should strive for the perfect us that we can live with. ... That voice that talks to us at 4am when we're writing our ap lang papers is what we have to live with. 24/7 its always there, confront it or keep the good times going. ...

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But the account of Adrian Nastase's Government should be viewed in the light of dif-ferent considerations: Thus, the Romanian foreign policy has produced some positive results, as for instance the lifting of the visa requirement for Romanians traveling to the European Union since January 1, 2002, the invitation received last year in Prague to join the Nato and the visit of the US president George W. ... The various disagreements between Romania and the EU, brought about last year by the signing of the treaty with the USA on the non-extradition of the US citizens to the Criminal Court o...

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The history and theories found in Introducing Quantum Theoy, by J. ... If we are fish in the coy pond, we have been greatly fooled by the effects of higher dimensions through history. ... He gave us the answer and proof that time is the answer to the fourth dimension. ... While the Supreme Court found Plessy to be "Black,"" he in fact looked like a "White- man; Plessy, was in fact seven-eights (7/8) white, 7 of his great-grandparents were white, and he was only one-eighth (1/8) black, only one of his great-grandparents was black. ... This interpretation of these observable facts can allow u...

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It's not harder academically but it is extremely different in the fact that you are tossed into a melting pot of different types of people. ... During my junior year I would always fall asleep with the lights on and my AP US History book in my lap. ...

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The pictures haunted us for days, months, even now. ... In American history, on American soil, not since Pearl Harbor had anything this vile happened that resulted in such a loss in civilian lives. ... This fact is amazing considering all the economic and personal turmoil many Americans have faced over the past few years. ... Thanks to many talented photographers and historians, we have many amazing photographs that chronicled some of the worst images in all of history. ... The photographs are meant to move us and remind us of the events – not take place of the ev...

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In the case of an unintentional death feelings are that the perpetrators should have the right to live, but have to face each day with the fact that they killed someone weighing on their conscience. ... Many feel that the annihilation of this practice will solve a large number of the problems and questions about the death penalty that haunt our society today.Jennifer Barnett AP US History 6th period September 6, 1994 Capital Punishment Capital Punishment: a.k.a. the death penalty. ... In the case of an unintentional death feelings are that the perpetrators should have the...

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Why can they not relinquish their pride of having us lower/middle class begging for their mercy? ... Reich also gives us a brief history lesson on how our economy has become this way, he supplies us with this information: Gap in income after federal taxes and transfer payments have more than tripled in the top 1 percent, the after-tax-transfer income of the top 1 percent has increased by 275 percent and only 40 percent for the middle class and 18 percent for the lowest class. ... In the articles I have read and in everything I have learned throughout my AP Macroeconomics class, it is apparen...

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Though the debate was partisan and often rancorous, Congress ap- proved the purchase of the collection in early 1815 for $23,950. ... History, the first of his three major categories, was composed of all known facts about the physical universe. ... A fact discovered long ago was no less valid than one recently established. If History dealt with the known world, Philoso- phy was concerned with the laws that governed those facts-the Moral for human affairs and the Mathematical for the forces of nature. ... Anatomy is composed of all the known facts about the human body just as A...

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Athens University of Economics and Business Department of Business Administration Discussion questions for case three: The US Airline Industry in 2002 Alessio Rossi AP. ... On the other hand, for short distances car is the airline industry's main competitor: in fact, airline travel is neither practical nor economical for short trips. ... The consequences for profitability have been disastrous: from 1990 to 1995, the total losses of the US Airlines industry exceeded total profits. ...

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Another way that the Articles affected the American economy was due to the fact that it did not allow the government to levy or collect taxes, which made congress only able to raise money by borrowing or asking states for money. ... This is shown in document D, where John Jay can only ask the US minister to Great Britain to respectfully ask for all British troops to clear out of the American nation. ... However, the greatest weakness that the Articles had, and which was partly due to the fact of the average Americans fear of the government gaining too much power, was the lack of a Chief exec...

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A quote on the back of the book from John Updike can also give us insight to how respected his name was by other literary geniuses, "I'd never seen writing quite like this before, writing so precise and witty, and so full of little surprises," (Updike, Of John Updike and Vladimir Nabokov). ... In fact, there is no circumstance or situation that should allow a book to be banned. ... Lolita is not an instruction booklet for a pedophile the same way Bleak House is not a history textbook. ... Clay Burrell writes in his essay, High School Daze to Praise: "AP Literature touts its...

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Most recently, through the successful cloning of a sheep from an adult cell, people and scientists have been able to come to the fact that human cloning is possible. ... This is the same procedure used to create "Dolly" the first cloned animal, an ewe, in recorded history back in 1997. ... Then we take out the nucleus of the cell and implant it into another cell which has no DNA and we "trick" the cell into growing into whatever organ it originated from, just like it was a stem cell, the first basic cell of every organ in our body (Haney AP Newswire). ... Richard Seed, a Graves 4 physicis...

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That means we imitate those who are above us in class hierarchy. ... In other words, the elite not only showed how much they could spend on clothing, but also demonstrated the fact that they did not have to engage in common labor. ... It was during this time that people began to realize that family history did not matter as much. ... After studying the history of New York and their tendency to ape Parisian customs and it exaltation of money from Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America by Sara M. ... And, pray, what was the occasion of these very mal-ap-pro-pos remarks? ...

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The defense of women who killed their batterers also became a rallying cry in the US and in other parts of the world. ... Croix in the Virgin Islands, Fiji, and in the US in such culturally distinct locations as the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and Marine Corps bases. ... In fact, the campaign against violence against women is one of the few successful examples of a transnational collective action network, as women in various parts of the world tried out and adopted similar techniques (see Keck and Sikkink 1998). ...

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