Half Dome

Great Buildings in Architecture Prof. Price 3/9/15 Dome of the Rock Jerusalem (687-691) vs. Oratory, Germigny-des-Près (806-810) There are many differences between the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and the Oratory at Germigny-des-Près. There are also many similarities between them as well. Before I can get to the comparison between them, I would like to talk about them individually. Both buildings are used for religious purposes to this day. The Dome of the Rock is a temple shrine located on…

place. I can remember Italy better than any other place. One of my favorite places was Florence. When we were in Florence we had some free time to know the city on our own. There was one specific thing I wanted to do, I wanted to get to the top of the Dome of Florence Cathedral (Il Duomo di Firenze). I was excited of having the time to do what I wanted in Florence because of a book I read, that part of the story develops there. Almost the whole time we were in Florence, it rained, and that day…

and forests to dissipate. About one million to two hundred and fifty thousand years ago one and possibly more glacial advances filled up Yosemite Valley all the way to the very top. During this time, it was projected that Half Dome was about nine hundred feet above the ice, Half Dome was one of the very few peaks that was not engulfed by the ice. Most of the streams that flowed into the Merced River were then changed to cascades that were high above the valley. Thirty thousand years ago during…

sierra nevada mountains there's another park called the Yosemite National Park. The Yosemite National park is filled with sequoia trees, amazing tunnel views and many more attractions. One of the top sights at Yosemite park is the half dome clift. A granite dome at the eastern of the yosemite valley. The Grand Canyon is another national park in the united states that gets many tourists every year. The Grand Canyon National Park is located in…

the chance to build the dome of the Florence Duomo. Florence was home to many talented artists, and all of them entered competitions to build or design various buildings around the city. Just a few years before, Brunelleschi had competed to design the bronze doors on the baptistery, but lost the competition to Lorenzo Ghiberti. Along with Ghiberti and Michelangelo, Brunelleschi built a model of what he thought the dome should look like. His design was accepted, and the dome was built under his…

As of last week albert Bacon Fall had secretly granted Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company exclusive rights to the Teapot Dome in Wyoming on April 7, 1922. After Pres. Warren G. Harding had transferred supervision of the naval oil reserve lands from the Department of the interior, that’s when Fall granted Sinclair the oil rights. When leases and contrasts went under investigation by committees of the U.S. Senate . Fall and members of his family had received from an unknown source…

prayer call. Also, the white color is to ensure the purity and calm of the place, and the marble is to express the firm establishment of the prayers. Furthermore, it has a large entry hall covered by a tall dome supported by a dome over the Mihrab and three arches on the other sides. The dome is to give the feeling of the divine, and safety as it protects the people below it. The niche, Mihrab in Arabic, tells the people where Mecca, the birthplace of Islam is. That is because Mihrab is always…

possibility of bias in the laboratory. Muhs and her group of scientist have been asked to find the best bubble solution. Muhs was instructed to test the size of bubbles created from each solution in two tests, one was a dome bubble test and the other was a free-floating bubble test. The dome test was conducted by blowing through a straw into a pan of solution to create a domed bubble. In the free-floating bubble test, Muhs’s team created a bubble maker to create free-floating bubbles and they…

Have you ever wondered how people before you created structures without the materials we have today? The Renaissance was the perfect era to prove to the world they could build anything any other society could build and better. Filippo Brunelleschi's duome was created without the materials the Romans had but it is still strong and standing. This was a great achievement for the Renaissance people because it showed that they could be as great as the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire was known…

Murder! Butterflies! Big Jim shooting televisions and yelling at a dog! Weird alien-like cocoons! An alternate reality! Under the Dome is most certainly back. The third season premiere left me in a state of shock. Not because anything in the episode was particularly shocking, but because the episode wasn’t terrible. In fact, it was actually kind of OK, in its own universe (compared to most shows it was still pretty disastrous). And, better yet, we got some sort of answers! Granted, not many,…