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The Mount Vesuvius Volcano has erupted many times. Since AD 79, the volcano has also erupted repeatedly, in 172, 203, 222, 303, 379, 472, 512, 536, 685, 787, around 860, around 900, 968, 991, 999, 1006, 1037, 1049, around 1073, 1139, 1150, and there may have been eruptions in 1270, 1347, and 1500. The volcano erupted again in 1631, six times in the 18th century (especially in 1779 and 1794), eight times in the 19th century (notably in 1872), and in 1906, 1929 and 1944. In this assignment I am…

I. Introduction Mount Vesuvius is the most famous known volcano, possibly of all time. This extremely powerful volcano sits overlooking the ancient city of Pompeii and present day Naples. Its namely recognition is normally dedicated to the eruption in 79 A.D. This eruption was the explosion that destroyed the ancient city of Pompeii in Italy. The last Vesuvius eruption was in 1944 and it is believed that the volcano is due for another eruption in the near future. Vesuvius is the only active…

When the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire became more educated in the Ottoman society starting in the 1800’s, the most educated citizens of Armenia began to ask the empire for equal and better rights. These requests from the Armenians along with a quest for territory and power drove the Ottomans to begin killing any Armenian that was within their region. The genocide gave insight into how Hitler’s mind got so twisted to kill off people of his own country, along with how Armenia became…

Japan is associated with so many natural disasters. This is because the island, Japan is located where the North American, Pacific, Eurasian, and Philippine plate meet, also known as plate boundaries. Japan is also located where the Pacific plate and the Philippine plate are subducting. This results in the stress building up where the two plates are subducting. How do plates move? Well, plates move when uneven heating in the mantle creates currents. This current is a convection current, and…

Otherwise Russians were left alone, free to practise their religions, and do whatever they wish, within reason. The Mongol officials even punished those who desecrated the Orthodox church, and they followed a different faith. Military arrangement, and administrative practises were altered during the period they were part of the Mongolian Empire. “The Russian people, as one Russian historian pointed out, "were trained by the Mongols to take orders, to pay taxes, and to supply soldiers without…

boundaries, divergent plate boundaries, and transform plate boundaries). With relation to the earthquake in Nepal, it was caused by the stress of two tectonic plates that were located at a convergent plate boundary: the Indian plate and the overriding Eurasian plate. It was really interesting being familiar with, and able to utilize the vocabulary used in the…

20 Percent of Neanderthal Genome Lives on in Modern Humans, Scientists Find." National Geographic(2014). National Geographic. Web. 15 Nov. 2014. <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140129-neanderthal-genes-genetics-migration-africa-eurasian-science/>. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Did Neanderthals eat their vegetables? First direct evidence of plants in Neanderthal diet." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 25 June 2014.…

What is a Marine Biologist? According to Merriam Webster “marine” means of or relating to the sea or the plants and animals that live in the sea. A biologist is a scientist that studies things that are biotic, therefore, making the word “Marine Biologist” mean the study of ocean life. Approximately 70% of the earth is covered by water, while the rest is land. A marine biologist has a significant profession by studying the life in the ocean and all of its secrets. The secrets in the ocean could…

George Orwell was born in India because his father was a civil servant. A year after his birth George’s mom had decided to take the children back to England while his father worked in India. George did not see much of his father when he was a kid. He was a feeble child when growing up, constantly dealing with bronchitis and the flu. George was an avid writer, writing his first poem at only the age of four. When he wrote the book, he was envisioning an extremely oppressive future where your whole…

The Neanderthals are the extinct cousins that we all share and the closest relatives of modern humans. As our Homo sapiens ancestors parted from Africa and walked across the Eurasian landmass, they encountered members of this other ancestral human lineage, who also began in Africa but had migrated to Eurasia long before our ancestors arrived. Only separated by tens of thousands of generations, humans and Neanderthals were still able to interbreed, and using anthropological and genetic evidence,…