supreme sacrifice for the liberation of their people. What began like a student union protest has‚ today‚ snowballed into major crises assuming national and international dimension. THE EMERGENCE OF THE NIGER DELTA MILITANCY: It was with late Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro that the Niger Delta crisis started in 1966‚ As an undergraduate student of chemistry and a student union leader at the University of Nigeria‚ Nsukka‚ he left school to lead an armed protest under the aegis of the Niger Delta Volunteer
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Sir Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton-one of the greatest minds in history. He was an all-around genius. He was a mathematician‚ a natural philosopher‚ an inventor‚ and an English physicist. Some of the phenomenal things he did include studying how light reacts to reflection‚ formulating laws of universal gravitation and motion‚ and built the first ever reflecting telescope. In 1642 Isaac Newton was born into a very poor farming family in Woolsthorpe‚ England. When he was very young‚ his grandma took
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Sarah DeGarso Isaac Newton Isaac Newton made a multitude of discoveries that are still relevant in today’s academia. Many people have referred to him as one of the most important scientist that has ever lived. He is mostly known by his Theory of Universal Gravity and laws of motion‚ Newton’s laws‚ but he also influenced the areas of math and optics. Newton had a passion for alchemy and astrology. Today Newton’s laws of motion and gravity theory are still taught in schools as one of the most fundamental
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Journal of Spatial Hydrology Spring Vol. 5‚ No. 1 Spatial Analysis of Urban Stormwater Quality M. Ghafouri1 and C.E. Swain Abstract Urban stormwater non-point source pollutants are recognized as a major cause of receiving waters quality deterioration. To date most research has focused on specifying temporal variations of stormwater quality parameters which includes high uncertainties and also increases the risk of pollution control structures failure. Traditionally‚ the temporal variations of quality
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Isaac newton is undoubtedly considered one of the greatest mathematicians to ever grace the earth. He evolved mathematics in ways nobody else’s thought was possible. In my opinion‚ he is one of the most defining mathematicians of all time. Sir Isaac newton was born on 1/4/1943 in the United kingdom. He was the son of a local prosperous farmer‚ also named Isaac Newton‚ who died three months before he was born. At age three‚ Isaac’s mother then remarried a minister‚ leaving him in the care of his
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After Caravaggios Sacrifice of Isaac ”After Caravaggios Sacrifice of Isaac” is a short-story written by Rachel Cusk‚ and published in 2003. Love is the world’s most wonderful phenomenon‚ it is a force more formidable than any other‚ and love is strong enough to transform you in a moment. This the story of a man‚ afflicted by love. And like all good things – The more you care about them the more you have to sacrifice for them. The narrator of the story becomes a victim of this phenomenon‚ when he
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Super Storm Hurricane Sandy Widespread loss of electric power and subway shutdowns the associated press reports that more than 13‚500 flights were canceled and in New York three major airports were shut down. Super storm Sandy the second most expensive storm in U.S. history‚ according to Eqecat. That ranks it right behind Hurricane Katrina. Eqecat stated that the damage from the storm would likely be far worse than it previously predicted. The storm also brought a huge economic loss by flooding
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Asimov On Chemistry by Isaac Asimov The Book Asimov on Chemistry by Isaac Asimov is a collection of seventeen essays that he wrote for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. This book is one of ten that were published by Doubleday & Company‚ Inc. Not all of the books centered on chemistry and like science. Most just covered anything Isaac Asimov wondered about. These Essays date back quite aways with a range from January 1959 to April 1966. INORGANIC CHEMISTRY The Weighting Game This
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genderless baby: The Case of Storm Stocker Raising a family of three children is no easy feat to begin with‚ and the Stocker family of Toronto‚ Ontario has made one decision regarding their new baby that will hardly make it any easier. Mrs. Stocker gave birth to her third child on new years day of 2011‚ and accompanying the proud new parents e-mail to friends and families announcing the baby’s birth‚ was a rather controversial statement; "We ’ve decided not to share Storm ’s sex for now -- a tribute
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Jewish descent is as “one nation”. This emphasizes that they are different‚ and implies the controversial issue that for some people‚ being Jewish relates to your background‚ and for some‚ it is set to religious values and practices. Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook “was a prominent rabbinical authority and active public leader‚ but at the same time a deeply religious mystic. He was both Talmudic scholar and poet‚ original thinker and saintly tzaddik.” (Rav Kook Torah) Kook concluded that it is the Jewish
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