Monument

Restall and Solari studied what was left of Monument 6 from El Tortuguero, the ruined Mayan document that ended up starting this frenzy of worry, and because of the broken and missing pieces, they had to resort in studying other documents that may hint or mention the same topic of the world ending…

and teeny tiny people. It is hard to believe you were once down there, that the world shrunk or that you grew. The Mississippi River and beyond on one side, St Louis on the other. That's right, you're at the top of the western hemisphere's tallest monument, the Gateway Arch! The Gateway Arch is 630 feet tall and wide, as well as being 43,306 tons and costing 13 million dollars. Four million people visit the park each year. Located at 11 North Fourth Street, St. Louis Mississippi, on the 90…

The Old Jewish Prague is the second oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe. You can see gravestones from various historical periods there: long black Gothic ones, marble stones from the 16 th century, typical Renaissance decoration, mighty Baroque gravestones, and some of the Rococo ones. This cemetery was founded in the April 23, 1439 and is the oldest existing graveyard from the 15th century. This Jewish element has been the foundation of the medieval Prague and has a unique look to it since the…

on. Two prechristian cross forms have had some vogue in Christian usage. The ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol of life to the ankh, a tau cross surmounted by a loop and known as crux ansata was adopted and extensively used on Coptic Christian monuments. The swastika, called crux gammata, composed of four Greek capitals of the letter gamma, is marked on many early Christian tombs as a veiled symbol of the cross. The symbolic ornamentations vary in the form of a sacred place, athe cross, wooden…

Egyptians didn’t have any real proof of eclipses” (Ibrahem). More than just impressive Egyptian structures and character, the Sphinx, the Great Pyramid, and the Eye of Horus are symbols related to the solar eclipse. First off, the Egyptian Sphinx is a monument that has the body of a lion and the head of a man. Now I bet you did not know that one of the many representations of the Sphinx is the Egyptian Lord of solar eclipses! “The Sphinx was a beast of the sun God, highlighting the position of…

Isaiah Benzoni 6 Hoffman Two comparable, corrupt politicians are Verres and Alberto Fujimori. These people both committed very bad crimes in Sicily and Peru respectively. Some things that these people did were bad in the same way Alberto Fujimori was the president of Peru from July 28, 1990 to 22 November, 2000. During this time Fujimori played a part in kidnappings and killings, accepted bribes and embezzled money from the Peruvian treasury. Later on Fujimori was convicted of illegal…

The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution states that neither the federal not state governments can establish a religion or set up an official church. They also cannot pass laws that benefit a particular religion, or religion over a lack of religion. No one can be punished for his or her religion or lack thereof; also no taxes can be levied that support a religious institution. The Establishment Clause built a wall that separated church from state. Supreme Court…

Nebuchadnezzar commissioned his builders to construct and design a monumental gate on the outskirts of the city. The gate was situated at the main entrance to the promenade, north of the city’s border to the temple of Marduk, chief God of Mesopotamian. The monument was dedicated and named after Ishtar, the Babylonian Goddess of; love, fertility, war and sex. (Wikipedia) If thou openest not the gate to let me enter, I will break the door, I will wrench the lock, I will smash the door-posts,…

stranger to tourism. Even with the high density of its inhabitant, Paris still has room to accommodate and entertain its tourists. The history of Paris is one of its major selling points to many tourists and visitors. The surrounding area with both its monuments and architecture is able to tell a story. One major historical site is the area where the Bastille formerly stood. The Bastille was a fortress in Paris that would be later used as a prison. The storming of the Bastille, which took…

ABC History and Geography 1883-1886 By Joel Opificius, Clyde Killingbeck, and AJ Geoit Sponsors: ’The Killen You Tribune’ and ’Fou Chien Fraîche Journal’ G is for Gompers Samuel Gompers was the first leader of the American Federation of Labor or AFL. He helped unions and union member become part of American Society. H is for Hayman Riot It was a strike for an eight hour workday, starting May 1st in Chicago. It eventually become…