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UN Office of the Iraq Program - Oil-for-Food.

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Around 1850 Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson (Kelvin) developed the first law of thermodynamics

The First Law of Thermodynamics states:

"that energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be converted from one form to another".

Additional information:

Sadi Carnot is called the "father of thermodynamics"

Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson (Kelvin) stated both the First Law and the Second Law of ThermodAround

The third law was developed by German chemist Walther Nernst from 1906 to 1912

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 German philosopher Spengler's writing " The Decline of the West"

This is a two-volume work by Oswald Spengler.

The first volume, "Form and Actuality", was published in 1918

The second volume, "Perspectives of World History", was published in 1922.

The final version of both volumes was released in 1923.

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Roald Amundsen was from Norway. 

He is Known for:

• First to reach the South Pole and the North Pole
• First to navigate the Northwest Passage

Additional information:

He was Born on July 16, 1872, in Borge, Norway

He Died in June 1928 at the Barents Sea

Dies at the age of 55 years

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Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama was the first European to reach India

Through the Atlantic Ocean at Calicut India.

the Portuguese build their first fortress in Cochin.

Francisco de Almeida was appointed as the first Portuguese governor in India.

They were followed by the Dutch when they tried to enter the Indian market in the middle of the 16th century.

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Hyperion is the tallest tree in the world.

The name of the species of the plant is Coast Redwood

Its biological name is Sequoia sempervirens.

It is located in Redwood National Park. California USA

The height of Hyperion is 115.54m.

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Wolffia is the smallest plant in the World.

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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the immediate cause of the war

between two great powers—Russia and the Habsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire

It was a global war originating in Europe

It lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Ms. Florence Nightingale was the founder of modern nursing.

She was an English social reformer.

She was born on 12 May 1820 in Italy.

She died on 13 August 1910 in England

Awards

• Royal Red Cross (1883)
• Lady of Grace of the Order of St John (LGStJ) (1904)
• Order of Merit (1907)

Additional information 

she was a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War 

In this war, she organized to care for wounded soldiers.

Crimean War (Oct 1853- Feb 1856) was fought between The Russians and the British, French and Ottoman Turkish