10. Pluto-Sized Eris Rocks Solar System Discovery of Eris in 2005 by Mike Brown‚ a minor body that is 27 percent bigger than Pluto. Eris had trumped Pluto and become the 9th largest body known to orbit the sun. The finding became the trigger that changed the face of our solar system‚ defining the planets and adding Pluto to a growing family of dwarf planets in 2006 by International Astronomical Union (IAU) 9. T. rex Tissue Dug from Bone the discovery of what appeared to be soft tissues - blood
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Heinrich Schliemann was a German archaeologist who was fascinated with the Iliad and the Odyssey. He had made important discoveries through his countless excavations of multiple sites‚ but it is unclear whether Schliemann was interested in the fame and fortune involved with treasure hunting or whether he had a passion for history and was a true archaeologist. Schliemann was interested in the tales created by Homer and this may be what led him to discover the site of Troy. He had begun excavating
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The verse narrative entitled Gilgamesh written by Herbert Mason presents the theme of self discovery. Gilgamesh is the unrighteous demigod ruler of Uruk. His moral compass can be questioned as he gives his people intensive labour and will sexually harass the women. Consequently‚ he becomes unaware of his limitations because he has absolute power. Inevitably‚ this changes when he meets his near equal Enkidu. They embark on a journey into the forest which holds Humbaba. Enkidu’s fear of death intensifies
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In Graham Robb’s Discovery of France‚ Robb chronicles the social‚ geographical‚ and economic changes in France from the pre-revolutionary period until the first World War. Prior to new governmental policy and dramatic physical changes to the landscape‚ France was far from the unified nation state that is recognizable today. Much of the nation had yet to be discovered‚ nor had it been sufficiently recorded by a cartographer. The rich diversity of culture and language accounted by Robb attempts to
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created by heating limestone. Before the discovery of calcium‚ a man named Antoine Lavoisier classified the lime as “earth” because it was very difficult‚ almost impossible to reduce it further‚ he felt that it was the oxide of an unknown element. But in 1808‚ that is when Humphry Davy tried to reduce moist lime by a process called electrolysis. Humphry Davy tried the same process again but this time with
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Do mistakes lead to discoveries? I think that mistakes do lead to discoveries like‚ when Percy Spencer was standing near the Magnetron and his candy bar was melted then realized that the Magnetron was heating the area up then‚ he asked for some popcorn kernels and put them close to the Magnetron and they popped minutes later‚ so then the microwave was created about 20 years later through many mistakes. In “Lost Cities‚ Lost Treasure” a man named Heinrich Schliemann was digging in the ground of
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The Manhattan Project was a turning point in discovery and weapons. But how do atomic bombs work? Why were they made? And how had it changed us as humans? Nuclear energy has changed humans. It started in 1939 when Albert Einstein‚ a German scientist‚ found out that the Nazis were trying to build a powerful bomb. He warned President Roosevelt about it and persuaded him to try to build one before they did. It would change history. Although he did warn them‚ he was denied “because the left-leaning
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Matthew Forbus Mrs. Fails Advanced U.S. VA History 8/22/14 Columbian Exchange In the late 15th and early 16th centuries explorers wanted to discover new lands due to overpopulation and curiosity of what the world was. This was called the Age of Discovery; a time when sailors set sail and went to discover more about the world. During this period‚ when sailors landed on the Americas‚ the Spanish‚ French‚ and English colonies looted the lands and also traded with the locals‚ causing the Columbian Exchange
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gives the awareness not rely on the materialistic patriarchal society. In the journey of sel- discovery‚ the narrator is collapsed with the memories of the past and her thoughts of her mother give her power and strength about the society and natural world. The narrator considers both herself and her boyfriend Joe as animals. She asks Joe to have physical contact with her. Moreover‚ she forces him for the same at the outside world. Through this action‚ she wants to mingle with this new unborn child
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Sitting on my blue‚ self-inflating camping mattress with papers around me flitting in the wind‚ I wondered “how did I get here?” I’d applied to and was accepted to go on a three week camping trip out West. With two days left on this adventure‚ my fellow participants and I took a long van ride to Shoshone National Park. As we stepped out of the vans we were handed yellow folders full of letters from family‚ along with keepsakes of short essays‚ pictures‚ and quotes meant to supplement our experience
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