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view of education, art and culture, invaded Egypt in 1798, he took along a group of scholars and told them to seize all important cultural artifacts for France. Pierre Bouchard, one of Napoleon’s soldiers, was aware of this order when he found the basalt stone, which was almost four feet long and two-and-a-half feet wide, at a fort near Rosetta. When the British defeated Napoleon in 1801, they took possession of the Rosetta Stone. The Rosetta Stone is a text written by a group of priests in…

detect the presence of water in different minerals and rocks. On Mars there is an important amount of clay minerals and sulphates, which are highly concentrated in water. The robots sent on Mars found different rocks; the main one we will study is Basalt. Basalt is an igneous rock that is consisted of silicate minerals, olivine, pyroxene and plagioclase feldspar (all minerals studied in class). These minerals have the property that when they are exposed to water they will endure chemical…

The Snake River rises near the continental divide in Yellowstone National Park. The Snake River leaves Idaho through the Palisades Reservoir. When the Snake reaches Oregon it starts to flow north. This creates the border of Oregon and Idaho for 216 miles. The Snake River flows west and feeds into the Columbia River near Pasco, WA. Throughout the river there are steamboats going through the river, and railroads were built along the side. There is always a bunch of salmon coming through the Snake…

The Rapa Nui people were a set of tribes who lived in Easter Island, which nowadays belongs to the Chilean government and there's a population of 2.095 people. They descend from the first settlers from Polynesia. LOCATION AND CREATION OF THE ISLAND The Easter Island is a very little island in the Polynesia which was formed by three volcanic eruptions in the bottom of the sea between 3,000,000 and 750,000,000 years ago, which made the island have a triangular shape. All the volcanos in the island…

At 12:33am EST on 7 December 1972, the final manned lunar mission, Apollo 17, launched from launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center using a Saturn V rocket. Being a J-Series Apollo mission, it lasted 12 days, 13 hours, 51 minutes and 59 seconds with Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt. The landing site Taurus-Littrow highlands and valley area was chosen due to the suspected presence of rocks both older and newer (due to…

their resources. The kingdom blossomed over time and they even created the first ever wheel which was a big advancement for man. The law code of Hammurabi contained 282 clauses regarding legal issues. The law code was engraved into an 8 foot pillar of basalt making it the first ever written down law. The penalty for not following the laws would end in a severe punishment, but if you look at the punishment and then compare it to now a days we can see the…

Lake Shojiko, Lake Yamanakako, Lake Saliko. The Japanese proverb says, ¨He who climbs Mount Fuji once is a wise man, he who climbs it twice is a fool.¨ The definition of a stratovolcano is a large cone-shaped volcano. Mt. Fuji is made primarily of Basalt, which is somewhat unusualy from stratovolcanos. For almost 300 years the volcano has stayed quiet, and has not erupted, and has stayed in good shape. Stratovolcanoes are also known as compostite…

One type of sediment to note is diatomaceous earth, an uplifted siliceous ooze which contains the remains of the microscopic algae known as diatoms (Garrison and Ellis 152). With a density lower than most other sediments—measured at 0.2816 g/ml in our lab results—the powdery and apparently sticky sediment has rather tiny grains as expected from this sort of sediment. As diatomaceous earth derives from the diatom ooze of the deep ocean floor, it originates from the slow dissolution of diatom…

The lobby of the lions This group is the eldest in the fortress and the biosphere, since the Spaniards stationary in obverse of him powerless to determine the confidences of his cascade, which was the aquatic out at convinced periods. There are twelve lion agate out of aquatic frequently, this cascade was disturbed since of the Spanish examination for this amazing consistency The Cascade, the Dark Cascade of the Marmara Basin, is the greatest roomy vestibule. It was constructed throughout the…

The United States was shocked as well as devastated after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The counteracting of the U.S. was, “Congress declared war on the Empire of Japan amid outrage at the attack. Japanese Americans from the West Coast were sent to internment camps for the duration of the war.” U.S citizens came together to get vengeance on Japan’s empire, this was called Remember Pearl Harbor (wikipedia.org). “Two months after the attack, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which…