Mount Lemmon: The Best Place to Have Fun Summer or Winter When we first arrived in Tucson in June 2016‚ there was so many places to go and explore. Then there was Mount Lemmon‚ which was close to our house. We drove up the Catalina Highway‚ through the vast fields of Saguaro cactus and wooded areas of pine trees‚ to the peak. When we got there‚ there was so much stuff to explore that we didn’t have time to do it all in one day. Mount Lemmon is the crowned jewel of Tucson that everyone should
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Mount Kailas is almost 22‚000 feet high in elevation and 4‚300 feet counter line to summit. It is the source of some of the largest and most important rivers in Asia: The Indus River‚ the Sutlej River‚ the Brahmaputra River‚ and the Karnali River. This great is located in Tibet‚ which has been taken over control by the Chinese since 1949‚ after the Chinese civil war. They control the borders and prohibit westerners from coming in to the country because they don’t want people there taking pictures
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Mount Rushmore is a mountain located in the Black Hills of South Dakota. South Dakota is placed in the Midwestern region of the United States. This incredible sculpture portrays the faces of four esteemed presidents‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ George Washington‚ Theodore Roosevelt‚ and Abraham Lincoln. They symbolize this nation’s rich history. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began to drill into the six-thousand foot mountain in 1927. After months of diligent work on the mountain‚ the sculptor passed
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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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You could scarcely remember a time when you had felt so alone. Fallen‚ at the bottom of a pit on the side of Mount Ebott‚ with the cruel lure of sunlight bearing down on you‚ both awful and wonderful in what it promised and what it taunted you with. How had you ended up at the bottom of that hole? As unsettling as the thought was‚ you almost felt… like you had been pushed. The feeling was only there for a moment before you were falling‚ and screaming. There was no time to think about why you
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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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down the street to the theater‚ then Mount Vesuvius started to rumble‚ the sky was turning black‚ by the smoke and the birds were heading the wrong way. They ran straight to the boats and hopped in one‚ they soon fell asleep. Tranio and Livia woke up on the boat and the sky was still black. They saw that they were headed straight toward Mount Vesuvius‚ they were starting to get scared. It was starting to get a little lighter‚ the boat stopped‚ at the bay of Mount Vesuvius. They hopped out of
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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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One of the major differences between the Sermon of the Mount and the 10 Commandments is the way that the two were given. The 10 Commandments were given to Moses to spread to the people. The Sermon on the Mount was spoken word by Jesus‚ given to his disciples. Another difference was God was not seen when passing the commandments to the people‚ where as Jesus was seen by the people and performed miracles. With these two differences we see the changes that had taken place over the years since the first
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