a calendar with astonishing accuracy. They based their calendar off of one of their pyramids; the Pyramid of Kukulkan located in Chichén Itzá. It was built in the late Mayan period and was used as the basis for the calendar. The pyramid had four stairways‚ with 91 steps each as well as a platform on the top. All of this came together to a total of 365 days‚ which was equivalent to the number of days in a year based on the recent calendar. An article from TimeandDate.com states: “The Mayan Calendar
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the song was perfectly described by this megalomaniac man. I even have a Victor´s one-hundred-top ten list of songs he considered essential to his everyday life. A guitar on the sofa was found next to his vinyl records and songs like “magic”‚ “stairway to heaven”‚ “Us and them” and “forever young” were never listened anymore. One day in June he closed his eyes forever; taking the rhythm with him on his eternal journey. He left his bass voiceless and I never felt so alone. My mutilated soul mourned
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The year was 1984 and Halloween night. There was three boys‚ Tommy‚ Joey‚ and Bill. After a long night of trick or treating and receiving a million full size candy bars they get a dare. The dare is to enter the most feared and scary house in the neighborhood. The town was a small town with only a few neighborhoods and a couple schools. The house was very rundown as it lost all its color and every plant and tree is dead. There is often shadows seen and noises heard from an old man and even screams
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Now a days‚ with technology at our fingertips‚ people are able to hear about all sorts of different disasters going on around the world. We see in the news and on the internet the sad news of plane crashes‚ a home burning down‚ a city destroyed by an earth quake‚ or village flooded by a tsunami. Even with the knowledge of the horrible events occurring we still never think much of it because people feel so disconnected by them. When facing a major disaster many of us cannot comprehend how we would
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No one knows exactly when Lahore Fort was built but it was first mentioned around 1021 AD when Mahmud of Ghazna conquered it. Over the centuries Lahore was conquered many times. Lahore has also been an important city for a long time. The best time for Lahore was during the Mughal reign from 1525 to 1721. Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad Akbar (Akbar the Great) built the present structure as we know it today. Jahangir and Shah Jahan constructed palaces in the Fort and Emperor Auranzeb Alamgir built the Badshahi
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unclean cemetery‚ creating juxtaposition between the two. In the first scene‚ there are numerous buildings‚ showing that as the world population increases‚ conditions worsen as humans fight for space. The Kowloon walled city has a twisting series of stairways‚ alleys‚ and cat walks. These buildings‚ wrapped around an old military
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buried in a mastaba which is a low‚ flat roofed tomb. The mastaba was eventually widened to make the Step Pyramid. A Step Pyramid starts with a mastaba on the bottom them smaller and smaller mastabas on top. These were literally interpreted as the stairway to heaven. The Bent Pyramid came next as the first attempt at what we now think of the Egyptian Pyramids. The Bent Pyramid was created by a miscalculation. The sides of the pyramid were too steep to be stable so halfway through construction the angle
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Terraciano 1 Amanda Terraciano Professor Staton English 1101 13 September 2014 Narrative Essay - My trip to Italy I could feel the anticipation rising within myself knowing that my trip to Italy was just a few weeks away. I had waited my whole life for this one moment. It was near the month of April‚ and that meant spring break was just right around the corner. To give a little bit of background‚ I come from an Italian family. I have yet to see the beautiful terrain where my ancestors had originated
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By Sandy English 19 January 2000 Who’s Irish? ‚ by Gish Jen‚ Alfred A. Knopf‚ New York‚ 1999‚ 208 pp.‚ $22.00 Gish Jen has published two well-received novels‚ Typical American (1992) and Mona in the Promised Land (1997)‚ both of which deal with the entry of Chinese immigrants or their families into American life. Who’s Irish? is her first book of short stories. It deals with much the same material‚ and the quality of the eight stories is uneven; two are quite satisfying‚ the rest less so. “Birthmates”
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(also in Ilocos Sur) with its centuries-old wooden altar; the St. Augustine Church in Paoay (Ilocos Norte) which takes the form of a baroque-type built with massive buttresses; and Sta. Maria Church (Ilocos Sur)‚ nestled atop a hill with a stone stairway of 80 steps‚ are both listed in the UNESCO World Heritage sites. Dances were mainly a reflection of the gracious ways of
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