... York (FDNY). The merit system of promotion in the Fire Department was instituted in 1870. Today the Fire Department protects more than 8,000,000 residents in an area of 320 square miles. The Fire Commissioner appointed by and responsible to the Mayor administers the department. The uniformed force is under the command of the Chief of Department and consists of more than ... exam must be taken. The Fire Department of New York consists of 11,495 uniformed firefighters and fire officers. Considering that NYC has a population of 8,008,278 and is 321.8 square miles (see figure 1.0) the amoun...

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... the walls. The building tips the scales at 365,000 tons. Only 60,000 of which is the steel framework, which holds the whole thing together. There is 310,000 square feet of marble in this building, which was used for the elevator lobbies and corridors on the floors that contain the offices. There is over 50 ... radiator pipe in the building to help keep it worm in the wintertime. Air conditioning wasn't installed until 1950 and it has been up graded since. With 70 miles of water pipes in side this building. The building kind of acts as a water tower in the fact that it stores some water ...

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... of Harrisburg lies the city of Hershey; home to the famous Hershey's Chocolate Company. Pennsylvania is only the 33rd largest state by land mass with an area of 46,055 square miles. But according to the 2010 census, Pennsylvania's population ranks sixth in the United States with a population of 12,702,379 people (PHMC). Pennsylvania's total gross state product in 2010 was ... ...

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... he immediately launched into his opening song, "Concrete Jungle," which immediately brought the crowd to its feet." Robert Nesta Marley, was born on February 6, 1945. He was born in Nine Miles, Saint Ann, Jamaica. "Bob was the son of a white man, whom he never met. His mother Cedella also left him to be raised by his Granny Yaya and his grandfather ... . "Exodus, all right! Movement of Jah people! Oh yeah!" I find it interesting that a group of people would actually want to pick up everything they own and move some couple thousand miles away to a completely different country. Another cru...

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... sun's energy can be converted into electricity in the colonies. It will be converted with ten percent efficiency to electrical power which is sold at a rate of .012 kw/hr, a square kilometre of space would return more than $14,000,000 each year. Converting solar power to electricity in space, we would build satellite solar power stations that would intercept the ... it into electricity. The satellite solar power stations would intercept enough sunlight to replace five nuclear reactors or coal plants. The stations could be as big as nine miles long and four miles wide and it would only w...

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... from the casinos, free dinners and suites. He befriended another player named Vinnie who goes by the name "Snake Eyes" and together the two would make the 80 miles trip to the casinos every few days for many years.(7) Weiwei became interested in art as a youth; in 1978 he enrolled in the Beijing Film Academy studying animation. It was ... through the use of commonplace materials.(2) Weiwei is also known for his famous photo series titled "Study of Perspective" in which he flips off the White House, Tiananmen Square and Mao's portrait capturing his push for free expression and his relent...

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... : Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond. The boroughs are divided into neighborhoods and each neighborhood has an individual ethnic character. The most interesting attractions of New York City are Times Square, Central Park and the Statue of Liberty which was a gift to the People of United States from France in 1886 to honor their friendship. Pennsylvania was primarily a heart of immigration ... the "heartland" of the nation. Ohio is an ideal place for people who like to be surrounded by water – the state has 2,500 lakes and 43,50 miles of river landscapes. Indiana is on the ...

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... territory to be surveyed. The land was supposed to be divided into separate and orderly types of land plots. With the land there were divisions of townships, which are six square miles each; many of which were provisions for education. This division of townships lead to Shays' Rebellion, which is a rebellion that took place in 1786. It consisted of citizens in Western ... ...

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... could receive and transmit with radio signals when he made them the same frequency. 6"It literally magnified the incoming electrical energy." By 1896 he was ready to transmit a signal 50 miles to West Point New York. But the same year a disaster struck. A fire consumed the building which Tesla's lab was in. His lab was destroyed and all his work along with ... selfish reason that they gave for doing that. Tesla wanted an ordinary way to show his remote control, so he built a little remote controlled boat. The exhibition was at Madison Square Garden and everyone was expecting something b...

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... of the majority of his works. John Ernst Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, on February 27, 1902. His father's family, originally called Grossteinbeck, had come from Wuppertal, about twenty miles east of the German city of Dusseldorf. During summers he worked as a hired hand on nearby ranches, "nourishing" his impression of the California countryside and its people (Lisca 32). He ... Stanford permanently in the fall of 1925 without a degree (Fontenrose 3). In New York City, his brother-in-law found him a job pushing wheelbarrows for the construction of the original Madison Squar...

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... Woodbridge Township was gradually divided and portions of the area went to other municipalities. But the township is still one of the largest in the State with some twenty-seven square miles (Woodbridge). George Washington also stayed in Woodbridge, at the Cross Keys Tavern on his way to be inaugurated in New York City ( Mc Ewen and Troeger 16). The Cross Keys ... ...

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... said. "If they want, we'll surely oblige him."" BOOBY TRAP IN BAGHDAD Meantime, the explosion Friday night in Baghdad kicked up a large cloud of smoke and dust near Martyrs' Square, where the U.S. military maintains a base. Piles of shrapnel lay about the scene, and a taxi was badly damaged. There was a large crater from the explosion, which was near the People's Stadium ... attack, the U.S. military said in Baghdad, although it was not known whether the casualties were from the ambush or a separate attack later on a convoy of three Humvees and a truck several miles away. There was an e...

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... in the 1700's. However, European governments thought they were nothing more than some other brooding menace to be dealt with, and the British crown eventually granted William Penn 45,000 square miles for a colony. Many in England most likely considered this a favor to the crown and not to the Quakers. Quakers from England, Ireland, Wales, and immigrants encouraged by Quaker missionaries, made ... ...

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