Zheng He was a Muslim eunuch who served as a close confidant of the Yongle Emperor of China during the Ming Dynasty. He went on voyages to Southeast Asia‚ Sumatra‚ Java‚ Ceylon‚ India‚ Persia‚ Persian Gulf‚ Arabia‚ the red sea Egypt‚ and the Mozambique Channel. The number of his voyages vary depending on method of division‚ but he travelled at least seven times to The Western Ocean with his fleet. The fleet comprised 30‚000 men and seventy ships at its height. He brought back to China many
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know if how many of you know this‚ but Australia is home of one of the most world renowned coral reefs in the entire world. The name of this coral reef is the Great Barrier Reef it is located parallel to Queensland‚ Australia and stretches for almost 1430 miles. The Great Barrier Reef is more than just a great tourist attraction it is also home to thousands upon thousands of sea creatures ranging from microscopic plankton to whales and sharks. To list a few numbers relating to Great Barrier Reef animals
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INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY: FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS Barbara H. Stuart University of Technology‚ Sydney‚ Australia 72 Infrared Spectroscopy: Fundamentals and Applications hydrocarbons appear in the 3000–2800 cm−1 range and the C–H stretching bands of methyl groups and methylene groups are readily differentiated. For methyl groups‚ asymmetric C–H stretching occurs at 2870 cm−1 ‚ while symmetric C–H stretching occurs at 2960 cm−1 . By comparison‚ methylene groups show asymmetric stretching at 2930
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Lines. However‚ the accomplish- ments of these and other early Peruvian civilizations seem today to pale in comparison to the robust pre-Columbian civilization of the Inca. The most startling feature of the great Inca empire was its brevity. In 1430‚ the realm of the Inca consisted of little more than the river valley around Cuzco. Less than a century later‚ through conquest and a canny policy of incorporating the best features of the societies they subjugated‚ the Incas controlled a vast territory
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Unit 7 Chapter Exersises NT 1430 Tyrel Cain (19103625) Tyrel Cain NT1430 4/30/2015 Unit 7 Chapter Exercises Chapter 22 1. What are three reasons to use NFS? a. NFS reduces storage needs. b. NFS simplifies system administration. c. NFS makes backing up data simpler. d. NFS improves data consistency and reliability. 2. Which command would you give to mount on the local system the /home? Directory hierarchy that resides on the file server named plum? Assume the mounted directory hierarchy will
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Nedum Aniemeka SOSC 12100 February 17th 2014 Collective Thought vs. Individual Thought: Discussing the Categories of Understanding When discussing the use of symbols in both Durkheim and Strauss’ works‚ it is important for us to look at how both thinkers talk about the categories of understanding. In Elementary Forms‚ Durkheim believes the categories of understanding are grounded in the social‚ using Australian totemism to explain how the primitive mind used symbols derived from collective thought
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am going to compare the differences between three such David’s; Michelangelo’s‚ Donatello’s‚ and Bernini. The first comparison is the time period that each David was conceived; Bernini created his in 1623 and 1624‚ Donatello created his during the 1430’s‚ and Michelangelo created his during the 1500’s. This represents three different time periods and three distinct artists. Donatello’s and Bernini’s David’s were small compared to Michelangelo’s David‚ the difference between five feet as opposed
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and do not require additional time for employees. Manufacturing costs (for 1000 units) Manufacturing costs (for 100 units) Cost of ingredients - Direct material 530 53 Store attendant - Direct labor 300 Rent - Fixed Costs 600 Cost to manufacture 1430 53 Special Plastic cover (.05 @ Each) 5 Revenue (1000 cones @ 1.50 each) 1500 150 Commission 70 12 B. The quantitative information that is relevant for this decision is the 100 cones and 100 required special plastic covers for each cone. The fixed
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minor Galician nobility; most likely from a poorer class of nobles (Gilderman 13-14). Rodríguez del Padrón may have also been a page for the future Cardinal Juan de Cervantes in addition to Juan II. He entered the Franciscan Order approximately in the 1430s and took his vows to enter the priesthood in 1441 in Italy and his final vows in 1442 after his travels to Jerusalem. When he returned to Galicia he founded a convent at Erbón. Rodríguez del Padrón traveled extensively throughout Europe as demonstrated
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The Aztec Empire flourished between c. 1345 and 1521 CE and‚ at its greatest extent‚ covered most of northern Mesoamerica. Aztec warriors were able to dominate their neighbouring states and permit rulers such as Motecuhzoma II to impose Aztec ideals and religion across Mexico. Highly accomplished in agriculture and trade‚ the last of the great Mesoamerican civilizations was also noted for its art and architecture which ranks amongst the finest ever produced on the continent. The Aztec state is actually
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