ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ruskin Bond is an Indian author of British descent. He was born in Kasauli‚ Himachal Pradesh‚ on May 19‚ 1934 and grew up in Jamnanagar‚ Shimla and Dehra Dun. He is considered to be an icon among Indian writers‚ children’s authors and a top novelist. He wrote his first novel‚ The Room on the Roof‚ when he was seventeen. For this‚ he won John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novels‚ over 500 short stories‚ as well as various essays and
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The Weapons of the Crusades Guy Steuart 4/20/13 War in Society Dr. Jobin The Crusades were extremely violent times. With constant pressure to take back the holy city‚ armies were constantly fighting and killing. They were also always trying to find better and more efficient ways to fight and kill. Old weapons were engineered to be more destructive‚ new weapons were invented to destroy the ever-advancing technology in fortification. The three main categories of weaponry that were most important
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and DNA analysis also used to determine the possible causes of his death. By examining the photos taken at the site‚ Austrian archaeologists worked out the layout of Ötzi‚ his equipment and his clothing. The archaeologists noticed that Ötzi’s copper axe was leaning on a rock. The archaeologists assumed that Ötzi placed it there himself and that all of the surroundings where preserved and concluded he maybe was in a battle or hunting trip when he met his death. To identify when Ötzi had lived‚ archaeologists
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Peter and the Seven Enchanted Trees By Rafael Navia Peter is a very poor young man that leaves his house to find fortune. He starts a journey and met some friends. He will need his friends and his good intentions to overcome the obstacles that life have prepared for him. Peter: A young man with a very big heart. Old man: A powerful wizard who owes Peter a favor. Athos: A very strong man‚ and a friend of Peter who owes him a favor. Drako: A man who can drink an entire lake
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through the kitchen window and axe marking in the trees every morning and they will sometimes see a strange man rowing a small single manned boat on the lake when no one else is supposed to be on the property. Paul’s mom decides to leave to the grocery store for weekend supplies so that’s when the kids decide to hunt down the crazy man. About 3 hours after the kids leave to hunt they find a small shacked over dock with a well used boat in it. Paul noticed a small axe that a had a chip in it from marking
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Who was otzi the Iceman- Page 1 The discovery Who was otzi the Iceman- Page 1 The discovery It was that he was in his mid 40’s and his powerful leg muscles and his general fitness proposed that he may have spent his time rounding up sheep and goats up and down the Tyrolean’s Alps. Otzi had a number of tattoos that were covered all over his body. A cross was on the inner part of his left knee and had six parallel straight lines that were arranged in two rows on his back above the kidney‚ these
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copper axe with other not less interesting artifacts around about 3‚300 BC. The mystery about the death of the ice mummy still remains unsolved‚ but there are some theories that could possibly explain how Otzi ended up dead and frozen deep beneath. The one of the remarkable hypothesis that I believe tells us about the life of Otzi being a trader and metalworker who has been actually murdered for some particular reason. Firstly‚ the evidence for Otzi being a metalworker/trader is the copper axe valuable
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Writing Assignment #2 Topic #11 People often ask me about the large grey wolf hide I keep hanging above the fireplace. I will admit it does seem rather odd for a young girl to have such a thing‚ and I assure you that the story behind it is even stranger. A story I have told many times to guests and passers by‚ and I always get the same look of disbelief‚ but I assure that this story is as true as they come. Walking to my Grandmother’s house was not a strange occurrence for me I had done
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Marketing Project : AXE I/ The situation analysis {draw:frame} The environment Axe was inspired by another Unilever’s brand‚ Impulse. Like Axe‚ Impulse was a fragranced deodorant body spray for women that promised wearers male attention. Thanks to Axe’ success in France‚ Unilever decided to launch the brand in other European countries from 1985. However‚ in United Kingdom‚ the brand was renamed Lynx. Then‚ Axe encountered the same success in Latin America but it was less important
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That is the idea of “The AXE Effect” which implies that every last man could be the object of women’s desire by using this antiperspirant. Considering all this you can divine that there must be a convincing marketing concept behind it. And that’s why we decided to follow up with this special brand. AXE (or LYNX) is a brand of male grooming products‚ corresponding to the Anglo-Dutch cooperation “Unilever”. It is marketed towards young males aged between 12 and 29. The AXE brand found its way into
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