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Sun And Moon Aubrey Holes
1,579 words
I. 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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Alessi Chad Tender Loving Hunters Rice Edu Nae Docs Makahfag Makah
1,177 words
... he loss of our traditional seafood and sea
mammal diet. We also believe that the problems
troubling our young people stem from lack of
discipline and pride. And we hope that resuming
whaling will help The only chance of survival for
the hundreds of Native American cultures is
tradition. Being a people whose histories were
recorded orally until only recently in history,
tradition is rooted in the memory of the people.
In the Makah memory tradition is the whale hunt.
To the environmentalist th...
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Dining Room Wooden Table
966 words
We pulled into the gravel driveway a punctual half
hour before our expected arrival. Great, I
thought, an extra hour I would be waste at my
grandparents'. Wasn't it good enough that I was
spending the entire weekend here? Did we have to
get there so soon? When you are thirteen, each
minute at your grandparents' is like sitting
through an oration of the entire set of the World
Book Encyclopedia. Climbing out of the car, my
sister and I apathetically walked across the
driveway to the brick sidewal...
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Ancient Egypt God Ra
959 words
Egyptians were loyal to their gods and to their
pharaohs who were gods on earth, as established by
their enthusiasm to build the pyramids for the
safe means of access of their leaders into the
next world. Understanding the development and
belief system they had with the physical and
afterlife, you would have to know a little bit
about the location of the area, which the
Egyptians began to rise. The villages of ancient
Egypt were found all along the Nile. The Egyptians
were skillful farmers. They...
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De La Croix Polynesian Tattooing Tattoo
709 words
Polynesian tattooing existed before the arrival of
Europeans in the South Pacific and was the most
artistic tattooing in the ancient world. It had
evolved over thousands of years throughout the
islands of the Pacific and, in its most highly
developed forms, was characterized by elaborate
geometrical designs which were often added to,
renewed, and embellished throughout the life of
the individual until they covered the entire body.
In beauty and complexity ancient Polynesian
tattooing rivals the ...
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Havisham And Estella Pip
761 words
Comparing Character Traits With Pip From Great
Comparing Character Traits With Pip From Great
Expectations And Odysseus From The Odyssey 1.
Thesis: Pip and Odysseus? personalities are
evident in more than one aspect. Our hero,
Odysseus, not only shows bravery, but also tells
lies for a purpose as Pip does too. Pip? s early
childhood was spent in an honest moral atmosphere.
With the entrance into his new life of outside
influences he becomes ashamed of what he is and
ambitious to change. 2. Main ...
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Directly Proportional 50 Cm
1,310 words
Physics Coursework: - Bridges. Plan. Aim: The aim
of this experiment is to find out the amount of
sag a bridge of different lengths can cause when
under different kinds of tension and mass.
Apparatus: To carry out this experiment we will
need the following apparatus Weights (In different
proportions) A measuring apparatus (Ruler) 1 metre
of wood Two wooden blocks. Method: We will
assemble the apparatus together and set the pieces
up as shown in fig. 1. The two wooden blocks shall
act as the supp...
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Los Angeles Salt Lake
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The Chen family lived on a simple farm in Kansas
in the late 1920 s; they grew corn and wheat and
made a living off that. A few years past and the
Stock market had crashed on Black Tuesday, October
24 th, 1929 (web). The Great Depression was
setting in, and the Dustbowl hit in 1935 (Garraty
57) all across the central part of the United
States causing dust to be blown everywhere. This
prevented all the farmers to grow crops and thus
driving them out of business and going poor. The
Chen family los...
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House And Miss Social Classes
532 words
In the novel Great Expectations written by Charles
Dickens there are two main settings which are
London and the marshlands. The two settings and
different social classes have an impact on Pips
life. Pip life would have been drastically
different if he had not had gone to these places.
Miss Havishams house and Mr. Jaggers house have
similar atmospheres. Miss Havishams lived up town
as an immensely rich and grim lady who lived in a
large dismal house barricaded against robbers, and
who led a life ...
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Kool Aid Makes World Go Round Water
426 words
It has been said that Kool-Aid makes the world go
round. Let it be advised, however, that without
the proper tools and directions, the great
American beverage is nothing more than an envelope
of unsweetened powder. There are five simple steps
to create this candy-tasting concoction. Picking
the proper packet of flavoring is the first step
in making Kool-Aid. Check the grocers shelf for a
wide variety, ranging from Mountain Berry Punch to
Tropical Blue Hawaiian. If it is a difficult
decision for ...
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Attention To Detail Homer
1,270 words
The 1873 masterpiece Breezing Up, by Winslow Homer
located in the National Gallery of Art in
Washington DC is an oil on canvas painting that
measures 23 3 / 13 X 38 1 / 6 in... The primary
subject of this painting is a man with three boys
in a small wooden sail boat that is moving along
with what appears to be a fairly choppy sea. At
the center of this painting is the stern of the
sail boat. The oldest of the boys is sitting on
the high end of the stern with his knees up and
his bare feet plante...
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Ft Long James B
618 words
Ironclad ships were also a big part in the Civil
War, two of the most famous ironclads were the USS
Monitor and the CSS Virginia a. k. a. Merrimack.
The Monitor was built on Mar. 9, 1862 at Hamton
Rds. VA. by John Ericsson they, for 4 hours the
Monitor and the Merrimack battled. The Confederate
ironclad was destroyed by its own crew to prevent
it from being captured. The Confederates planned
to build several ironclads that could challenge
and defeat the wooden frigates and gunboats of the
union....
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Captain John Smith Virginia Company
601 words
In June of 1606, King James I granted a charter to
a group of London entrepreneurs, the Virginia
Company, to establish a English settlement in the
Chesapeake region of North America. By December,
104 male settlers sailed from London instructed to
settle Virginia, and find gold and a water route
to the Orient. According to a list published by
Captain John Smith, Gentlemen made up about half
of the group, whose gentle birth suggests they
knew nothing of or thought it their personal duty
to tame a ...
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Medieval Times Middle Ages
1,099 words
Cooking in the medieval times was performed on
very big scale, and food was cheap and plentiful.
Foreign goods had to be bought at the nearest
large town. Food trade was a primary business. It
was also a way of determining class. The nobles
would eat meat, white bread, pastries, and drink
wine. This sort of diet caused many health
problems, such as skin troubles, digestive
disorders, infections from decomposed proteins,
scurvy, and tooth decay. A peasant would eat
porridge, turnips, dark bread, ...
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Author Unknown Bushido Code
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9; During Miyamoto Musashi I. Introduction
9; During the ancient period of Japan there
existed a time of war and power struggles. There
were many people who followed the Bushido code or
way of the warrior. These people were called
samurai. Of the countless men who devoted their
lives to the Bushido code there were none greater
than Miyamoto Musashi. Musashi was one of if not
the most famous samurai to ever walk the lands of
medieval Japan. He was a legend in his own time.
II. The Life and ...
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Tinkerbell Perfume Mothers Lap Father
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My Closet I sat quietly on the couch next to my
father. His short muscular arm extended over my
head as if to protect his little girl. His fingers
got lost in my strands of hair, as I yanked my
head forward as if to signal I did not want him to
play with my hair. My new baby doll with big
blonde ringlets and skin that smelled like a babys
skin after it has just been powdered, rested in my
lap. My meek hands stroked the tiny doll as if it
were alive. My father knelt down and kissed my
forehead as...
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Deep Blue Ceiling Cozy And Special Room
321 words
My friend s bedroom, on the second floor, is cozy
and special. The shape of her bedroom is
semicircular. As you walk into the room, the soft
green walls and clean deep blue ceiling make the
room seem light thus even cozier than it is.
Moreover, you can see lots of stars scattered on
the deep blue ceiling and walls. This room seems
special, because it is as though you were looking
at a real starlike scene. Two semicircular windows
on the opposite wall are large by light blue
drapes. Her bed is in...
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West Side Set Fire
630 words
The legend goes, The cow kicked over a lantern,
the lantern set fire to the shed, and the shed set
fire to the rest of Chicago. Although, Mrs.
Patrick O'Leary swore under oath that she never
took a lantern to the shed on the night of Sunday,
October 8, 1871, many witnesses verified the
ramshackle building on the West Side as the
starting point of the fire. In Chicago, it had
been a very dry autumn. Furthermore, nearly all
the 300, 000 people of the city lived in wooden
houses. The fire departmen...
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United States Patent Revolving Firearm Colt
630 words
The colt six shooter will always be a legend to
Texas. Whether you know it as an accurate, cowboy,
Texas Ranger, gun-slinging, out West, corral gun,
or as a little protection, the colt will never be
forgotten in Texas. Sam Colt is known as the
inventor of the first revolving firearm. Sams
mother died when he was six and his father owned a
silk mill in Ware, Massachusetts. When Sam Colt
was seven, he was fascinated by guns. He took
apart his fathers gun in a field and was able to
successfully reb...
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Surfers Tend To Stand Face Of The Wave Board
397 words
Surfing Surfing is a water sport that originated
in what is now Hawaii. People in Hawaii were
surfing before explorer Christopher Columbus
sailed to the New World in 1942. Today, surfing is
popular in many countries, including Australia,
Brazil, France, Indonesia, Japan, Portugal, Peru,
South Africa, and the United States. Ancient
Hawaiians surfed on wooden boards that were up to
18 ft. Long. With the development of lighter
boards, however, surfing became a popular sport.
By the 1930 s the solid...
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