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    Have you ever viewed four states from one single tower? Well, if you haven’t, then you should visit the John Hancock Center, in Chicago, Illinois!!!!!!! If you go there, you would be able to see Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. The architects were Fazlur Rahman Khan and Bruce Graham. The John Hancock Center was made in recognition of John Hancock. Hancock served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.…

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    preparation Climbers are putting themselves and the rescuer’s lives at risk, so it creates a bigger problem and more people could end up getting severely injured or it could even result to death. In source 3 “Ranger Killed During Rescue of Climbers on Mount Rainier” A ranger named Nick Hall, died from falling 3,700 feet from rescuing 2 woman climbers that fell into crevasse. Although most people say yes to rescuing people since all lives are valuable and precious, however, it is extremely…

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    Mt. Fuji Research Paper

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    this is very unusual for a mountian, especially a Volcano. There is 5 Lakes that surround the mountain. The first lake is called: Lake Motosuko, Lake Kawaguchiko, 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…

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    “CRASH!”, “BANG!” went Pompeii and everyone living in it. August 24th, 79 C.E. Pompeiiś volcano erupted and sent million lives, to death. Pompeii was a Roman city were tons of people lived and called home, But then, a volcano near the Bay of Naples in Italy erupted, leaving the beautiful city buried under a thick blanket of volcanic ash. In the story “the dog of Pompeii” by Louis Untermeyer, it tells you about a blind boy, bimbo, and his dog, tito, and how it explains that tito was bimbo's…

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    Pompeii Research Paper

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    One of the most infamous natural disasters that has ever taken place would have to be the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the destruction and devastation it caused those who lived in Pompeii and other neighboring towns. Before this fateful day Pompeii was a prosperous city that rested on the southeastern base of Mt. Vesuvius. In 90 BCE, Pompeii and its Italian allies rebelled against Rome in what is called the Italic War. Pompeii eventually became Romanized adopting many of the characteristics…

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    I would say climbing Mount Everest is a bad idea say that because climbers have a high chance catching a deadly disease and death.This disease is called AMS(Acute Mountain Sickness).It is caused by reduced air pressure and lower oxygen levels at high altitudes.Most likely to happen if you climb too fast to a high altitude you would get it but to be able to climb mount everest you have to have the right gear and enough oxygen tanks. “180+ have climbed and quickly died”.(p.420)So you…

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    data. According to that data, the article states that a region of Nepal 75 miles (120 kilometers) long by 30 miles (50 km) wide was lifted upward by as much as 3 feet during the earthquake. It had been stated that images from the radar revealed that Mount Everest, as well as some of the world's tallest points, had dropped by about 1 inch (2.5 cm). Knowing this information is helping with the relief effort going on currently because it lets us know where there were the most landslides and with…

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    On August 26, 1883, a catastrophic natural disaster happened that affected the lives of people near and far. The volcano, Krakatoa, erupted leaving a great deal of devastation in its wake. Krakatoa is a volcanic island located in the Sunda Strait along the Indonesian Island Arc. The island along with two others were remains of an earlier eruption from two hundred years before. Krakatoa Island had three large hill-like or mountain shaped volcanic cones named Rakata, Danan, and Perboewatan. Before…

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    Pompeii Research Paper

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    1944 during WW2. Mount Vesuvius erupted right after noon on August 24th. Pompeii is visited by roughly 2.4 million people a year. Pompeii is the world’s largest excavation site. Mount Vesuvius has erupted over 50 times ever. Pompeii was preserved for almost 2,000 years when it was dug up. About 13% of people who were in Pompeii at the time, died. Before the eruption of 79 AD, the word for volcano didn’t exist. Mount Vesuvius has two craters made from early eruptions. Mount Vesuvius is the…

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    Ancient times before Christ, Pompeii was a flourishing city. In AD 79, Mt. Vesuvius erupted trapping thousands in the city under ash and lava; preserving the city for approximately 1700 years. Pompeii was one of the largest cities that was buried by Mount Vesuvius. Since then, excavations have begun and the city of Pompeii began to deteriorate. Currently, the big debate is on whether to discover Pompeii or preserve it. Several things come into play, involving financial issues, the historical…

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