landlord at time‚ instructed his workers to gather some stones and soon enough‚ the entrance of the chamber was found. Excavations of the passage-tombs began on 1962-1975 by Professor Michael J. O ’Kelly and his wife Claire O ’Kelly. Each year‚ on winter solstice‚ a spectacular occurrence is witnessed as New Grange is illuminated by the sun. At sunrise‚ around nine o ’clock in the morning‚ the suns strikes the front of New Grange creating a beam of light that stretches into the passage way and into
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’The underlying causes of the 1905 revolution in Russia were not political. Whatever the revolutionaries wanted‚ it was not the overthrow of the Tsar.’ How far do you agree with this claim? This essay will assess the claim that the underlying causes of the Russian revolution of 1905 were not political and the revolutionaries did not intend to overthrow the Tsar. The 1905 Russian revolution was caused by a number of different factors. The Russo-Japanese War and the Red Sunday were some of them
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Hopi Indians 1350 BCE to 1540 BCE Hopi means peaceful ones The name "Moqui‚" or "Moki‚" by which they have been popularly known‚ means ’dead’ in their own language‚ but as a tribal name it is seemingly of alien origin and of undetermined signification Bandelier and Cushing believed the Hopi country‚ the later province of Tusayan‚ to be identical with the Totonteac of Fray Marcos de Niza. The Hopi first became known to white men in the summer of 1540 Located in Arizona Buildings like steps
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The Petrograd Inflitrators Hello‚ I have no name. I am just a part of the masses that overthrew the corrupt Provisional Government. Me and hundreds more have been pushed into a stinky French-style taxi. In the taxis transporting us‚ we saw an enraged Petrograd (St. Petersburg). There were soldiers everywhere and slogans such as “Mir‚ Khleb i Zemlya!” (Peace‚ Bread and Land) on blood red flags donned the apartment blocks and buildings. When I stepped off at the meeting point near St. Isaac’s Cathedral
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as long as it is not political related. Hence‚ drama are based in olden times were popular because it would not have any relation to present day politics. Another favourite genre would be drama focused on love stories. These led to TV dramas like Winter Sonata‚ depicting a love story that became a hit in Asia‚ and
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It is a terrible yet bittersweet coincidence that I am writing a response to Timothy Morton’s “Queer Ecology” as my friends and family in the Philippines are being besieged by yet another tropical cyclone. Terrible because I feel guilty sitting cozily in front of my screen while halfway around the world hundreds of thousands of Filipinos who live in areas at risk of flash floods‚ landslides and storm surges are struggling to be evacuated as Ruby (the misleadingly sweet name the cyclone has been baptized
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I hate winter and my radio wants me dead. You heard me: dead. Actually‚ I can’t say with confidence that it’s the radio at all. I’ve swapped it out three times‚ finally settling on an ancient cassette deck excavated from a musty box in my garage. But it’s not the station‚ or who’s speaking‚ or even how modern (or ancient) the radio is. There’s something in the air and it has a home: The Silver Memorial Bridge. Ten days before Christmas in 1967‚ the original Silver Bridge collapsed during rush
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In Minnesota vs. Timothy Dickerson‚ two police officers parked in an unmarked car‚ outside of an apartment building known for trafficking contraband substances‚ did willfully and knowingly stop and frisk respondent due to suspicious and evasive behavior‚ exiting the twelve-unit apartment building. The officers felt that upon his exit and approach towards patrol car‚ and eye contact with one of the officers‚ he turned and proceeded into a side alley. Officers then pursued respondent feeling his suspicious
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complex of monuments built along a bend of the River Boyne known collectively as Brú na Bóinne. The other two principal monuments are Knowth (the largest) and Dowth‚ but throughout the region there are as many as 35 smaller mounds. Each year the winter solstice event attracts much attention at Newgrange. Many gather at the ancient tomb to wait for dawn‚ as people did 5‚000 years ago. So great is the demand to be one of the few inside the chamber during the solstice that there is a free annual lottery
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you feel the pressure to come back to at the end of a day—cooking‚ children‚ pets‚ taking care of your family? When are the “promises” we need to keep made explicit‚ and when do they remain unspoken? The evening is “the darkest evening of the year‚” winter solstice. It is also the shortest‚ in a period of cold and darkness. The images of the frozen lake‚ the dark‚ the deep‚ could be used to argue that Frost is thinking of death. Death here is beckoning‚ an escape from care. The repeated lines at the
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