Von Willebrand Disease is a genetic disorder caused by missing or defective Von Willebrand Factor which a clotting protein in the blood. Von Willebrand Disease is the most common bleeding disorder and it affects a large number of people. Von Willebrand Disease is carried on chromosome 12‚ it is genetically passed‚ and it affects men and women equally. Symptoms: People with Von Willebrand Disease will often experience reoccurring nosebleeds and very easy bruising. During invasive procedures such as
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Diane von Furstenberg is known as many things. A daughter‚ a mother‚ a fashion designer‚ the list goes on and on‚ but most importantly she is a pioneer for women. In 1972‚ she turned the fashion world around with her signature wrap dress that changed women’s fashion forever. Today‚ she runs a fashion powerhouse that in many ways wasn’t supposed to exist. To discover the woman that Diane von Furstenberg is today‚ we must first tell the story of her mother. She was a prisoner of war in Germany
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The Difference Between Germany and the United States The Von Thünen Model was originally made and applied to Northern Germany. If this model were to be applied to the United States with New York City as the agricultural market‚ the rings would look rather odd in shape. This is because the United States is not as circular as Germany‚ New York City is toward the edge of the agricultural area rather than the center‚ and the Von Thünen Model does not take into account the variations in terrain as
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Triangle is a title of a book that was authored by a journalist David von Drehle in 2003. In his book‚ David Von Drehle wrote about the fire at Triangle company in March 1911 which left 146 workers dead most of the perished being young immigrant women (Otfinoski‚ 2014). The fire that broke in Triangle shirtwaist factory consumed upper three stories of the company consuming employees who were preparing to leave within minutes. David Von Drehle works for The Washington Post as a journalist‚ and he is also
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VON WILLEBRAND DISEASE Von Willebrand disease is named after a physician named Erik von Willebrand in the 1920s. It was first discovered in a five-year old girl in 1924. He assessed members of her family and reported in 1926 that this was a previously undescribed bleeding disorder that differed from hemophilia. He recognized the inheritance pattern‚ and noted that the bleeding symptoms were greater in children and in women of childbearing age. This disorder also effects animals‚ mostly dogs. There
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The Red Baron is the autobiography of the famous German flyer‚ Manfred von Richthofen. The book was published in Garden City‚ New York by Doubleday & Company‚ Inc. in 1969. In 230 pages‚ The Red Baron‚ demonstrates what warfare is like from the eyes of von Richthofen. The book was crafted using entires to his diary and letters he has written to his family. Manfred von Richthofen was born in Kleinberg‚ a small town near Breslau (Now Wrocław‚ Poland)‚ May 2nd 1892. He was born the eldest in to an
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Adrian Zwierzchowski 2 IB Investigation – Von Koch’s snowflake curve In this investigation I am going to consider a limit curve named after the Swedish mathematician Niels Fabian Helge von Koch. I will try to investigate the perimeter and area of Von Koch’s curve. [pic] The Koch’s curve has an infinite length because each time the steps above are performed on each line segment of the figure there are four times as many line segments‚ the length of each being one-third the length of the
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Mirror mirror on the wall; the story of justus von liebig’s invention “There are two ways of spreading light‚ to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” the inventor of the first silver plated mirror was Justus Von Liebig‚ a german chemist. His invention was first created about 200 years ago in germany. The very first mirror dates back to 6000 B.C. in modern day turkey Justus Von Liebig‚ created a method of mirror making which involved depositing silver‚ instead of the previously used lead
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Wernher von Braun (1912 – 1977) Inspired by the possibilities of space exploration by reading the science fiction of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells‚ von Braun developed a keen interest in space flight‚ and became the most important rocket designer of his time. During World War II‚ von Braun worked for the German army‚ developing missiles. This work resulted in the V-2 rocket‚ which used liquid fuel and could bomb targets in Europe. The structure of the V-2 rocket became the basis of the rockets used
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Otto von Bismarck‚ a nineteenth-century prime minister of Prussia‚ was born April 1st‚ 1815 to July 30th‚ 1898 in Prussia‚ where Germany is now located. Bismarck was a prime minister of Prussia for over 30 years. While being prime minister of Prussia he established the German empire and lead it as chancellor. As German chancellor‚ he won three wars and prevented wars in Europe for twenty years. Otto von Bismarck lead the German Empire very well and made it a great empire. Bismarck made Germany
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