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    Perfect Beach-Body

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    Goal: to write about the 10 best workouts for achieving perfect legs Total Word Count In This Document: 937 Title: ?The 10 Best Workouts For Achieving Perfect Legs? Do you want to have perfect, beach-body legs that you can feel confident about? Are the exercises you try out at the gym on ?leg day? just not doing the trick for your legs? If so, then here are the 10 best workouts that are guaranteed to give you perfect, toned legs that you?ll want to show off in a nice pair of shorts or skirt the

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    William P. Lear

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    William P. Lear, who holds over 100 patents, is known for many different inventions and companies including “the first reliable aeronautical radio compass and an automatic pilot system” (Kilbane, 2005), which helped keep planes on course through the use of radio broadcasts. Lear was able to create two companies during the World War II period based around these innovations, Lear, Inc. and Lear Avia Corp. These companies provided equipment totaling over $100 million during World War II for the allied

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    power-driven heavier-than-air machine and aircraft that could be controlled while in the air. Before aircraft was invented, human tried to imitate bird’s posture to fly across the sky by building ornithopters, which was a designed to fly by flapping its wings. Therefore, Wright Brothers’ invention shaped our culture and changed the way we view our world . Wright Brothers developed their interest in flying after they read about the death of a German glider pioneer Otto Lilienthal

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    “Eva I’m coming baby… I’m coming,” wiping my tears as I turn on the wipers. Rain, the size of golf balls pelt down onto the car. Like a wild beast, the wind blurs my vision of the road. Hunching over I hold the steering wheel with a death grip, slamming my foot on the accelerator, willing myself to go forward. Despite the monstrous weather, getting to the hospital is the only thought racing through my mind. All I hear is the doctor’s urgent voice “come quickly, Eva’s got little time.” “My baby girl’s

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    Pine Grove Preserve Memorial: The Pine Grove Preserve Memorial is located in Falmouth, Maine. Designed by Huger Elliot, a notable Philadelphia architect and artist, the monument is a small granite marker with a bronze plaque. In addition to the marker, George Woodward (the sponsor of the monument), gifted the town of Falmouth twenty-seven acres of forest to be made into a preserve dedicated to the memory of his son, and nephew. Henry Howard Houston Woodward was born on February 27th, 1896 in Chestnut

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    What is that in the Sky? “If we all worked on the assumption that what was accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope for advance.”( Orville Wright). With this quote, it is saying that if we always listen to the first thing people heard, people would not get very far. Which was not necessarily the case in the 20s. During this time period, the only way of transportation was by car and train. During the the roaring 20s, this was the time of complete experimentation. The Wright

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    Boom! Clash! Vroom! As I glimpse up at the sky, there appears to be an aircraft going immensely fast. After the noise was exposed, it was accompanied by a mob of fog. This is known as “Breaking the Sound Barrier”. It’s difficult to do this, but Charles Yeager and Jacqueline Cochran succeeded and made new world records. To start off, Charles Elwood Yeager, known as Chuck Yeager, grew up in Myra, West Virginia. As he was growing up, he really didn’t have the interest into the aviation field. At the

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    Girls lacrosse isn’t as easy as it looks. Without the right training and and equipment you can get seriously injured. Lacrosse is the oldest sport in North America. Lacrosse had started in 1857, girl’s lacrosse started in 1890 and was given its name by french settlers. In 1933, girl’s lacrosse was restricted with rules that limits stick contact, prohibits body contact, and requires protective equipment. In order to play girl’s lacrosse you should know 3 basic techniques, picking up ground balls,

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    From a little air separation with every fleet, the Navy's air arm developed to three aircraft carriers with allotted fighter, torpedo and bombarding squadrons; patrol squadrons working from seaplane tenders; and scouting aircraft frequently appointed to ships and cruisers. Naval aircraft went to sea with enhanced equipment. Proficient and reliable air-cooled radial engines were developed during this period. Air-cooled radial engines were so productive and successful that the Navy operated them until

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    We have all seen commercial airplanes as huge and grand. From the very first time we laid our eyes on them, a childish dream of knowing what's inside airplanes seemed inevitable. As we grew older, we might have taken a few flights and our curiosity was extinguished by examining the parts of the plane that we can plainly see, and yet, there's this one aircraft component that we're still itching to see and know more about. Whenever a plane crashes, one thing that investigators want to recover is

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