Search results for "Pound force" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • and minerals all posses this vital force in varying amounts. The supernatural ... or Northern regions of Ghana or Nigeria pound millet in long mortars, creating ...
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  • :By force of sight and might of rapture, fair :As dreams that die and ... immediately after his death. The young Ezra Pound thought Swinburne and the ...
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  • Explosive force is released in a direction perpendicular to the surface ... cause an explosion. For example, although a pound of coal yields five times ...
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  • from the harsh rhythms of Beowulf; Ezra Pound was influenced deeply by ... the hall itself might fall down from the force of their battle. Beowulf ...
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  • Government of Alexander Kerensky by force of arms. Reed and Bryant ... the bread supply from 2 pounds a day to 1 pound, to half a pound, to a quarter ...
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  • as an English novel of great dramatic force and intellectual subtlety. ... and canals through which we do so love to force our utterance. We can break ...
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  • wooden plug. When fired, the iron cap would force itself into the hollow cavity ... is usually given in grains (one avoirdupois pound = 7000 grains), but elsewhere ...
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  • global commerce with the implied threat of force, thus initiating a period ... the shogunal army and create an elite force, and an order was placed ...
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  • sent a 300,000 strong British Expeditionary Force to Belgium, which later had ... triggered a crisis of confidence in the pound, and Labour ministers grappled ...
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  • While the German Army was preparing to land an assault force of two ... 1 shilling, 2 shillings, 10 shillings and 1 pound, which were issued in 1942 ...
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  • wonder. And then there are those, like Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Wallace ... not only the form of poetry but also the force of it and gave it a new, ...
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  • He served 30 days of his sentence, and joined the U.S. Air Force a ... Thompson did his basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San ...
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  • In 2003, the Electricity Act (2003) came into force, requiring electricity providers to generate at least 10% of their power through renewable ...
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  • unit area to that object, since pressure is force per unit area and force is ... a higher gravitational potential, as in the Pound-Rebka experiment. However ...
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  • and ability to control submaximal pinch force and maintain a steady precision ... where a large proportion of the labour force is found in the informal ...
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  • of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus in 1964, Turkey ... reacted quickly, sending a considerable force against Onesilos. The Persians ...
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  • Army in 1775, he molded a fighting force that won independence from ... it was finally completed, with the 3,300 pound (1.5 metric ton) marble capstone ...
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  • bullet would retain the mass and kinetic force of a musket ball, but would ... Today almost every military force in the world is equipped with semi ...
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  • the High Seas Fleet and keep the German force bottled up and away from ... sortied in response to the raiding attack force, the British squadrons would ...
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  • irrigation, and use of a specialized labor force, the title "inventors ... #039;s population of 6,000 included a labor force of 2,500 cultivating 3,000 ...
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