The finished dam contains enough concrete‚ 4.5 million cubic yards‚ to build a two-lane highway from Seattle‚ Washington to Miami‚ Florida.More than 8.5 million pounds of dynamite was used to blast the foundation for the dam and 8 miles of tunnels through the canyon walls. Why did they build the Hoover Dam?The main reason for building the Hoover Dam was to supply the electrical power necessary to transport 4.4 million acre-feet—over
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Mary also allowed 800 Protestants to leave the country when she could have stopped them and killed them and rumours say that Mary had evidence that her half-sister Elizabeth had plotted to kill her but Mary decided to destroy the evidence because she did not want Elizabeth to be killed for treason ‚anyway ‚most of the English population were completely unaffected by Mary’s executions. By Georgia Thorne
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supply. Rome had several springs within it’s walls but it’s groundwater wasn’t the best. Water from the Tiber river was badly affected by pollution and waterborne diseases that’s when the cities first aqueduct was built. They used ceramic pipe to build the aqueducts because the led pipes had a higher amount of led in the water then in local spring water. The cocreate used for the lining of the aqueduct was usually waterproof which led to lasting a longer amount of time. Which it prevented erosion
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1. How did the Mongols build their empire? The Mongols rose to power adapting and improving on the existing Steppe political and military structure‚ couple with the incorporation of advanced and innovated conquered societies into the Mongol Hordes. Noticeable changes were‚ where tribal leaders once recruited and assembled groups of warriors through tribal affiliation and familial ties‚ Chinggis Khan assembled units into smaller cross-clan fighting units limited in size. Leadership authority granted
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Spaniards were born in Spain. It did not take long for these two groups of people to separate into casts. As ideas of the Enlightenment swept into the nation‚ ideas of inalienable rights and equality came into the mind of the Creole Elites. Though there were other causes of revolution in the area‚ this class rift played part in frustrating the members of the Creole Elite towards action‚ for example‚ Simon Bolivar. It created a foundation of tension that helped lead people like Bolivar to liberate
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Why did the 1905 revolution in Russia fail? The Russian revolution in 1905 failed due to many reasons such as the government’s issues‚ public’s action‚ and the loyalty to the Tsar by the armed forces and many other reasons. During the 1905 revolution one reason as to why the revolution failed was due to the number of strikes done by industry workers. In February 1905‚ 400‚000 workers went on strike due to the response of the bloody Sunday‚ the strikes were organised by the unhappy workers and
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The Agitation and Reform in the Nineteenth-Century Britain. What was Chartism and Why Did it Fail? Thisassignment will analysewhat Chartism was and why it failed. Firstly‚ we will consider what Chartism was‚ secondly we will focus on two of the six main reasons that Chartism failed‚ these will includethe lack of middle class support and the radical nature of the Chartist claims although the Disunited Members and Leader‚ the mid Victorian boom and the loyalty of the army and police force to
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Why Did ABC Fail at the Bank of China? BY ABED AL-NASSER ABDALLAH‚ PH.D.‚ AND WEI LI UNLESS TOP OF USING MANAGEMENT LENDS ITS SUPPORT‚ EMPLOYEES UNDERSTAND THE PURPOSE MODELS ARE TESTED‚ AND COSTS/BENEFITS ARE DETERMINED‚ IMPLEMENTATIONS COULD FAIL. ABC‚ ABC EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Few authors have explored the implementation of activity-based costing (ABC) in East Asian companies. This study investigates factors that led to the failure of an ABC implementation at a major Chinese
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Why Did Texas Almost Fail as a Spanish Colony? Why do the ventures of man fail? The ventures of men fail primarily due to a lack of planning. In the case of Spanish colonies in Texas this holds true. The Spanish first set eyes on the Texas coast in 1519 and in 1821 they lowered their flag for the final time in Texas. The Spanish had about 300 years to try and colonize Texas and the attempt to colonize and settle Texas was not very successful. The initial boats that came to Texas were shipwrecked
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public from fraudulent practices but in the end it is just a law and all laws can be broken. Some critics have pointed out the “Madoff scandal as a prime example of how the Sarbanes-Oxley Act has failed” (Fuller‚ 2009). But just because a system fails doesn ’t mean you give up or stop it means that you need to perfect the system. So where does the government go from here? Do they make more laws or add more
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