Eclipse

generals would wait for certain constellations to be above before going to war since they believed the stars were a way for the gods to communicate with use. This is to the detriment of some like the ancient grecian king whom when he saw a solar eclipse before a battle he halted the attack for a week since he thought the gods were displeased. This in turn gave his enemy proper time to prepare for the assault and he lost what should have been an easy victory. Mythology’s reach extend par past…

badly and he found out that his brother died. Another bad conflict was when Erik and Vincent Castor sprayed paint into Paul’s eyes. Paul has never really knew what actually damaged his eyes until he saw the gray wall again. He always thought that an eclipse blinded him, but he was wrong. Finally, Paul had a horrible incident when he got kicked off the Lake Windsor Middle soccer team. Coach Walski told Paul that he couldn’t play on the team anymore because IEP says that he is in a handicapped…

Click. Select. “Ava Grossmann” Type: click, click, click, click, click. “Clocked in at 3:27 pm” I Looked up. “Hi, Ava!” “Hey!” “What are you eating?” “A caramel roll, I made them last night”. “I’m surprised you made it to work, since I guess you had to leave the kitchen and the bedroom to make it here.” Stop. Look up. I asked, “how is that funny?” He replied, “Well, Ava you should know…” Stop. Snarky replies flashed across my mind. No. Smile. Turn-around. Walk-away. My…

When Genghis Khan founded the Mongol Empire, he had one goal in mind. His objective was to conquer, to conquer all the lands and make the Mongol Empire the strongest power in the world. In 1209, he won the submission of the Tanggut rulers in northwest China. In 1215, his forces conquered the Jin capital, present-day Beijing, and from there, he turned is expansions westward. In 1219, he invaded Khwarezm, a state that included much of Iran. After a large portion of Iran had fallen, he left command…

next to Travis’ farm. He claimed that his mind was restless and observant, and wa devoted to fasting and praying. Turner began to talk to 4 slaves about “killing all whites”. He said that god gave him a message to delay the revolt until the solar eclipse. The date passrs and the group wasn able to go forward because Turner was ill, but on August 13, the sun looked “silvery”…

In a small native american village, an Indian, who is named Jaguar Paw lives here with his pregnant wife and his young son. This village one day has large group of people come through who ask to pass. They say something happened to their village. Everything is peaceful until Mayan people come early in the morning while everyone is sleeping and attack. They burn down the small village, and kill many people. The people who aren’t killed are taken prisoners. Young children are left to take care of…

Ancient Greece was an area a long time ago. The country was made of many city-states, and one of the most important was called Athens. Athens was a democracy, where normal citizens voted on the decisions about how the country was run. Although Athens was an important city-state, it wasn't the only. Athens and a state called Sparta had a war called the Peloponnesian War for 27 years. Sparta came out victorious, but weakened. All of the city-states shared a common religion. Everyone worshipped…

wrote on a type of paper made of the insides of fig trees, it was called Amatl. The Mayans also carved their stories on stone. The codex portrays hieroglyphs and numerals. It contains ritual calendars, calculations of the phases of Venus, and eclipses of the sun and the moon. It showed instructions relating to new-year ceremonies, and the locations of the…

1. Anubis is one of the most important and recognisable ancient egyptian gods. Anubis is a very ancient god, whose name appears in ancient mastabas as a defender of the departed. At first he was a god of the underworld but later became a god of funeral rites and the embalming process. Anubis is not is actual name but anpu is. Anubis is just a greek version of his name. 2. a. All internal organs were removed with the exception of the heart. Next the body was covered in salt and left for about…

September 28th in 2015, one English photographer poised the perfect shot. This image shows this rare moon over the hill of Glastonbury Tor in striking perspective. This is the closest the moon has come to the earth since 1982, and coincided with a lunar eclipse. This event will not be able to be witnessed again until 2033. We hope you really appreciated our list of the top 20 best photos of the 21st…