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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
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On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner,...
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CER volume 81/82-1
Pub. Date
1981.
Description
Wind-tunnel transient concentration data were obtained from modeling tests which reproduced gaseous dispersion from five different forty cubic meter or less liquefied natural gas (LNG) spills performed at China Lake Naval Weapons Center. Comparisons in the transient concentration data between these modeled tests and the field tests indicated which parameters are dominant in the modeling process. Model tests which reproduced the wind shear and turbulence...
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Pub. Date
2011
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A gripping account of the disastrous Russian submarine explosion that killed the entire crew, devastated the Russian people, and defined Vladimir Putin's post–Cold War regime.
What were Russian officials thinking when they waited 48 hours to acknowledge their most prized submarine was in trouble? Why did they track the desperate tappings of an unknown number of trapped sailors without sending an international SOS? Why did they repeatedly decline...
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