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Post #52…No Common Sense…Example #40
Subway Cars * The engineering group of one of the largest subway systems in America was jumping for joy! The City Council had approved the budget request for the design and manufacture of 30 new subway cars! The Project Mission was to design and build a fleet of...
Post #51…No Common Sense…Example #39
Kemper Arena * The Kemper Arena opened in 1973 as the new home of the Kansas Kings basketball team. Because the roof was suspended from above, it featured uninterrupted sight lines. The innovative design earned the architect an Honor Award from the American Institute...
Post #50…No Common Sense…Example #38
Apollo Fire * One of the worst tragedies in the history of spaceflight occurred on January 27, 1967 when the crew of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire in the Apollo Command Module during a preflight test at Cape Canaveral. They were...
Post #49…No Common Sense…Example #37
Chernobyl * The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on April 26, 1986 at the #4 reactor in the Chernobyl Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. Called the world's worst-ever civil nuclear...
Post #48…No Common Sense…Example #36
Apollo 13 * Apollo 13 (April 11-17, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third to land on the moon. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) on April 11, 1970, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank...
Post #47…No Common Sense…Example #35
The Chauchat Machine Gun After the United States entered World War I in April 1917, the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) arrived in France, without automatic weapons or field artillery, to relieve battle-worn English troopsl. The English generals wanted the...
Post #46…No Common Sense…Example #34
The Teton Dam The Teton Dam was an earthen dam in the western United States, on the Teton River in eastern Idho. It was built by the Bureau of Reclamation, one of the eight federal agencies authorized to construct dams. Located between Fremont and Madison counties, it...
Post #45…No Common Sense…Example #33
National Safety Data * 2% of nation-wide crashes are due to head-on collisions. * Head-on collisions account for greater than 10% of fatal crashes. * Causes of head-on collisions include...Distracted Driving...Impaired Driving...Fatigued Driving... Driver...
Post #44…No Common Sense…Example #32
Congress' dynamics. WORKFORCE Congress' workforce consists of 535 workers...100 Senators and 435 members of the House of Representatives. After taking their Oath-of-Office, the new members of Congress are supplied with an outline of expected time allocation. Model...