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Sun And Moon Aubrey Holes
1,579 wordsI. On Salisbury Plain in Southern England stands Stonehenge, the most famous of all megalithic sites. Stonehenge is unique among the monuments of the ancient world. Isolated on a windswept plain, built by a people with no written language, Stonehenge challenges our imagination. The impressive stone circle stands near the top of a gently sloping hill on Salisbury Plain about thirty miles from the English Channel. The stones are visible over the hills for a mile or two in every direction. Stonehen...
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Lewis And Clark Bow And Arrow
1,962 wordsThe Mandan Indians were a small, peaceful tribe located at the mouth of the Knife River on the Missouri near present day Bismarck, North Dakota. The Mandan were most known for their friendliness and their homes, called earth lodges. The women of the Mandan tribe tended their gardens, prepared food, and maintained lodges while the men spent their time hunting or seeking spiritual knowledge. The Mandan Indians performed many ceremonies such as the Buffalo Dance and the Okipa Ceremony that have bee...
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Native Americans Town Square
757 wordsLocation and Background The early English traders gave the Creek native Americans their name because they usually built their villages on or near creeks or rivers. If they were to still have their villages it would include areas of Northern Florida and Eastern Louisiana and Southern Tennessee. The majority of the villages were located along the banks of the Coosa, Tallaposa, Flint, Ocmulgee, and Chattahoochee rivers. The native word for the most powerful band of Creeks was the Muskogees. The Cre...
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University Of California Los Angeles
1,773 words... form of plates "with holes for people who don't like soup, " ice buckets "with cracks that leak out the water so all you have is ice, " bowls "to put your old socks in. " (Dormer, p. 118) For Voulkos, the crack is the destiny of the clay, the event within the object. "I can't make a bowl without a crack. All my ice buckets are cracked. I got a lot of broken plates that I glue back. I like that line. " (Dormer, p. 119) During the same period he made over 200 stacks, 4 feet high and under, and...
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Mortuary Temple Step Pyramid
1,316 wordsWhen most people mention Ancient Egypt the first thing that comes to mind is the Pyramids. To construct such monuments required a mastery of art, architecture and social organization that few cultures would ever rival. The pyramids are said to have built Egypt by being the force that knit together the kingdoms economy. Their creations were so subeztial, that the sight of these vast pyramids would take your breath away. Today, the valley of the Nile has an open air museum so people can witness th...
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Easy To Learn Fast Paced
689 wordsRacquetball is aRaquetball Racquetball Racquetball is a fast-paced sport played indoors by two or four players. It combines elements of other games such as squash and tennis. Players use racquets with wrist straps to hit a ball that is a slightly smaller and lighter version than a tennis ball. Racquetball enjoyed a rise in popularity throughout North America in the 1970 s, although interest and participation in the sport has since declined. HISTORY Joe Sobek developed racquetball in the United S...
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Hundred And Fifty Fourth Dynasty
1,368 wordsTHE BUILDING OF THE PYRAMIDS From the reign of Djoser until the beginning if the New Kingdom, almost every pharaoh of substance and authority was buried under a pyramid. The pyramid, introduced by Djoser, reached its most definitive form with the Great Pyramid of Cheops, at Giza. At the end of this long tradition the splendid visions of the earlier dynasties had shrunk to monuments of poorly built steep-sided mud brick, that were no larger that about forty feet square, but a thousand years befor...
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Upper And Lower Burial Chamber
1,005 wordsImagine living in Ancient Egypt about 3, 000 B. C. Imagine a society teeming with life and happiness. Imagine looking around and seeing beautiful buildings, fields of crops, and the great pyramids with their white limestone fa ade blazing in the sun of the midday. It would be quite the experience to have lived back then. The history of Egypt begins with the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt into one united kingdom. The first ruler under this new system was Menes. Thirty other dynasty's would ...
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Mortuary Temple Step Pyramid
1,336 wordsEgyptian Pyramids When most people mention Ancient Egypt the first thing that comes to mind is the Pyramids. To construct such monuments required a mastery of art, architecture and social organization that few cultures would ever rival. The pyramids are said to have built Egypt by being the force that knit together the kingdom s economy. Their creations were so substantial, that the sight of these vast pyramids would take your breath away. Today, the valley of the Nile has an open air museum so ...
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