From the design perspective, in the ideal steamer coal occupied all free space, leaving no room for cargo or passengers. Waghorn, a young lieutenant stationed at the Bengal Pilot Service during the early days of ocean steam navigation in the 1820s, was obsessed with designing and commanding a steamer that would be able to make the journey from England to India via the Cape of Good Hope. He proposed to solve the aforementioned design problem by building small steamers whose voyages would be financed exclusively by delivering newspapers and letters between the metropolis and the potential coaling depots along the way to India. Steam power was expected to cut one-way travel time roughly in half, to six months. Waghorn aimed to translate this saved time into capital, increasing mail fares to the point at which steam navigation would become profitable. He called on politicians and American citizens to come together despite their differences. “Understand, democracy does not require uniformity,” he said. “Our founders quarreled, and compromised, and expected us to do the same. But they knew that democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity—the idea that for all our outward differences, we are all in this together; that we rise or fall as one.”

Mottley points out Dominica lost 226% of its GDP (the total value of a country’s goods and services) in four hours in 2017 when a powerful hurricane hit the Caribbean. Many of us complain that 24 hours doesn’t seem to be enough for our tasks in a day. We juggle our duties more out of a need to keep pushing, without anything to show for it. When this is happening to you, it may not be because you have a lot of work to do, it may simply mean that there is no barakah in your time. In 2020, employment in the electric vehicle sector grew by almost 8%, as petrol and diesel vehicle sector employment declined by 10%.Waghorn, who thus had to seek his fortune elsewhere, accepted an invitation to examine the possibility of steam navigation in the Red Sea. A rapid and well-publicized trip in 1830 from London to Suez and from there to India convinced him that his destiny was as the proprietor of a private Overland Route mail agency. One of the ways he promoted this agency was to claim the discovery of a new route to India, even though other Britons were already aware of it. This false advertisement proved extremely durable. Efforts to dismantle the Islamic State have continued after Obama’s presidency. As recently as April 2023, a top ISIS leader was killed in an airstrike. However, U.S. airstrikes have also been responsible for a large civilian death toll. As of December 2021, more than 1,400 people have died, according to military officials. Outside watchdog organizations, like Airwars, estimate the number of casualties could be as many as several thousand. Powering Empire: How Coal Made the Middle East and Sparked Global Carbonization,University of California Press, 2020

Unsurprisingly, Obama became a fan of the NBA’s Chicago Bulls during his time living in Chicago. He appeared in The Last Dance, a 2020 documentary profiling Michael Jordan’s career and final championship season with the Bulls in 1997-98. Every minute that we spend on earth will be accounted for, and as conscious Muslims, we have to be meticulous in how we spend our time. If you feel like you can be more productive with your time and spend it in a way that is beneficial; here are some tips to help. Recite Quran in the Morning To begin recounting the creation of the new Egyptian route, a process whereby geography and technology produced each other, we might start with the geotechnical coincidence that fueled the Industrial Revolution. Whereas coal and even basic steam-engine technology could also be found outside of Britain, the geographical proximity of British coal mines to mechanically skilled artisans and water transportation networks, as well as a related mining problem-the need to pump out water-may explain early nineteenth-century developments in British steam engines and the country's growing reliance on fossil fuels. See also: Energy policy of the Obama administration Obama makes a call to the crew of the International Space Station.

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On Innocence: Blasphemy, Pan-Islam and the Uneven Mediation of Utopia” in Arvind Rajagopal, Anupama Rao (eds.), Media and Utopia: History, Imagination and Technology (Critical Interventions in Theory and Praxis), Routledge India, 2016, 319-353.