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    combustion. An investigation happens at every fire so that way the cause and origin are known (DeHaan, 2). A specific fire happened on February 20, 2003, at a night in Rhode Island. The night club is called The Station, and this club was located in West Warwick, Rhode Island, and was holding a concert where the Great White performed. With all fires investigations occur looking at the fire

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    The Station Nightclub Fire West Warwick, Rhode Island. The building of the Station Nightclub was constructed in approximately 1946. Many restorations and repairs were made to the building since the time of construction by different owners to fulfill their business needs. The building was a wood-frame construction with wooden shingles on the exterior walls that also included a flat roof, but the interior walls surrounding the stage were staffed with sound proof polyurethane insulating foam. Windows

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    Carnival Cruise Lines: Fire Aboard a Stranded Cruise Ship In the early morning hours of November 8, 2010 the aft engine room of the Carnival Splendor ship caught fire, and left the ship without power. The Splendor ship is one of the largest ships in the Carnival fleet with 13 passenger decks. The ship is so large it requires six diesel engines to operate. Half of the engines are located in the aft (or rear) engine room and the other half is located in a forward engine room. These engine rooms are

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    Carnival Cruise Lines: Fire Aboard a Stranded Cruise Ship In the early morning hours of November 8, 2010 the aft engine room of the Carnival Splendor ship caught fire, and left the ship without power. The Splendor ship is one of the largest ships in the Carnival fleet with 13 passenger decks. The ship is so large it requires six diesel engines to operate. Half of the engines are located in the aft (or rear) engine room and the other half are located in a forward engine room. These engine rooms are

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    MGM Hotel Fire Las Vegas The MGM Hotel fire was started at 7 am on November 21 of 1980. Five thousand people were in the hotel that was twenty-three stories tall when the fire broke out. The fire was started due to an electrical contact made by a vibrating copper wire that lead from the vacuum that was outside and the deli display. The display wasn't installed correctly and therefore lead to the fire hazard. When the fire started, the fire alarms went off and so did the fire sprinklers. The sprinklers

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    Two people dead and 37 people were injured last night in a fire in a nightclub in Florida. The fire was caused by sparks from a ceiling fan, the Volusia Country Fire Department said. The fire happened around midnight, and roughly 200 people were inside the Soundwave nightclub, which opened in 2003 and has never had an incident before. The two victims, David Gibson and Elizabeth Oxley, were died from smoke inhalation and most injuries were injured by trampling each other when the fire happened. Soundwave

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    Essay on Henry VI and the Wars of the Roses

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    From his fifteen year minority to the inept rule of the rest of his reign, Henry VI was a "child", at least as far as governing ability was concerned. The period of his minority and the time that he was the titular king laid the groundwork for the Wars of the Roses. Had Henry been an intelligent king, with at least some political acumen, and the ability to win the respect of his nobles, their may have never been any Wars of the Roses. But his weakness in allowing government by favorites and governing

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    Lambert Simnel as a Greater Threat to the Security of Henry VII than Perkin Warbec 'After Bosworth, Henry's most immediate and perhaps greatest problem was ensuring that he kept the crown.' from Henry VII by R. Turvey and C. Steinsberg. This was very true, as throughout Henry's reign he faced many threats because as King he wasn't established and therefore vulnerable to challenge. Also there were still Yorkists in power who wanted to claim the throne back from the usurper

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    Coming Home Odyssey

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    when your loved ones are gone” (Combs). This verse expresses the importance of Odysseus’s struggle to get back to Ithaca. With his absence from home, it is not even possible for Telemachus and Penelope to experience “home”. Capturing this idea Dionne Warwick writes, “A chair is still a chair/ Even when there 's no one sittin ' there/ But a chair is not a house/ And a house is not a home/ When there 's no one there to hold you tight/ And no one there you can kiss goodnight/ Woah girl/ A room is a still

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    using those instrument skills to use being a main instrument player. For instance “That's What Friends Are For” with Dionne Warwick doing the vocals as a duet with stevie and Stevie Wonder also on the harmonica in the song. Stevie Wonder then made around ten number one hits in the R&B class. After this in 1986 best pop performance by a duo or group with vocal (awarded to Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight and Wonder) (Wikipedia). Stevie sold a great portion of his songs but this majorly increased

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