1800- Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts women’s college in South Hadley‚ Massachusetts. Originally founded by Mary Lyon as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary on 8 November 1837‚ it is the "first of the Seven Sisters" and is the oldest continuing institution of higher education for women in the United States. In addition‚ according to the United States Department of Education‚ "Mount Holyoke’s significance is that it became a model for a multitude of other women’s colleges throughout the country
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Teddy Roosevelt’s face deserves to be on Mount Rushmore for numerous reasons. For example‚ he made it his job to improve public health. After reading Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” he was baffled and extremely disappointed. So he took matters into his own hands and fought for a more sanitary meat packaging industry. Roosevelt made sure that instead of having rats‚ rat poison and bread mixed into your meat there was 100% sanitation. Also‚ he created the Pure Food and Drugs Act. Additionally‚ this act
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property damage; caused a partial collapse of the volcano’s flank‚ deposited ash in eleven states and five Canadian provinces. With no immediate precursors‚ a magnitude 5.1 earthquake occurred and was accompanied by a rapid series of events. Mount St. Helens produces small to large explosive eruptions‚ which send varying quantities of ash and tephra into the atmosphere Tephra (rock fragments and particles ejected by a volcanic eruption.) • tephra plume lasted for about eight hours and the
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MOUNT RUSHMORE 1868 A treaty between the U.S. government and the native Sioux gives the Sioux property rights in perpetuity over a territory that includes the Black Hills. 1876 After gold is discovered in the Black Hills (1874)‚ prospectors move in and displace the Sioux. 1885 Charles Rushmore goes to the Black Hills to inspect mining claims; Mount Rushmore is named in his honor. 1923 South Dakota state historian Doane Robinson writes to eminent Chicago sculptor Lorado Taft proposing that one
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completely isn’t? Planets closer to the sun are in better conditions and are well suited for rock and metal to condense. The farther away you get from the sun the conditions will change making the area not as suitable. That is why Earth is in the perfect place for it to sustain life. Planets that are made of gases and condensed ice have passed a boundary called the frost line. Planets behind the frost line have conditions cold enough for ice to condensate and form a planet. How hot is lava? Bright red lava
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Earnings per share for the last five years Year 1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr Yearly total 2003 $.23 $.25 $.19 $.34 $1.01 2004 .26 .28 .27 .41 1.22 2005 .34 .36 .33 .48 1.51 2006 .35 .37 .34 .49 1.55 2007 .35 .36 .36 .49 1.56 Figure 2 Glen Mount Furniture Company Current Balance Sheet Dec.31‚2008 Assets Current assets: Cash $350‚000 Marketable securities 90‚000 Accounts receivable 5‚000‚000 Inventory 7‚000‚000 Total current assets 12‚440‚000 Other assets: Investments 5‚000‚000
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Mount. Vesuvius Vesuvius is the only active volcano in mainland Europe‚ and has produced some of the continent ’s largest volcanic eruptions. Vesuvius and other Italian volcanoes‚ are part of the Campanian volcanic arc. The Campanian arc sits on a tectonic boundary where the African plate is being subducted beneath the Eurasian plate. Apparently‚ no one was aware that Vesuvius was an active volcano‚ even after an earthquake in February of the year 63. The towns’ people thought the soil
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Petrarch ’s journey to the peak of Mount Ventoux was one that sparked a multitude of questions of his inner self. It was due to Petrarch ’s laziness‚ that he found himself making the mistake of taking the unworthy‚ longer‚ easier path‚ again and again. This path would eventually deter him from his final destination‚ and he would later have to take the steeper‚ more direct path in addition to the first path. Through this trial and error‚ Petrarch was able to contemplate and extend his thought processes
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One of the most interesting aspects of this film‚ is how it depicts extreme behavior in mundane individuals . Handy Abu-Assad utilizes this device by highlights ordinary existence of the would be bombers. For example‚ in one scene Said sits on a hill‚ fruitlessly attempting to flick matches alight with one hand‚ this encapsulates countless hours of his life consumed with nothing but the most trivial and petty tasks. Further‚ upon attempting to film a farewell video‚ the camera malfunctions. In another
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Aisha Bint Abu Bakr has a major and significant role in adjusting the Muslim Ummah. It was she who was named the mother of the believers‚ it was she who transmitted 2210 ahadeeth that we find in books of Prophetic narrations that we read today and it was she who memorised the amazing and glorious book of Allah (s.w.t) the Quran‚ but who is this decent women? Aisha Bint Abu Bakr was one of the wives of The Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w). She has contributed a lot for the sake of Islam as many hadiths have
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