Northern Hemisphere

it is one of my favorite constellations to look up at in the sky during the Winter at my house! Some of the main stars of Taurus include; Aldebaran, Beta Tauri, Gamma Tauri, and Epsilon Tauri. It is a large and prominent constellation in the Northern hemisphere, especially during winter. The Bull symbolized both Isis and her brother Osiris, who were represented as a bull-god and cow-goddess respectively. In legend, Taurus is identified with the disguise adopted by Zeus in yet another of his…

Located in far southwestern Europe Spain is geographically positioned in the northern, as well as the eastern and western hemispheres. Spain is bordered by the countries of Andorra, France and Portugal, and the British colony of Gibraltar. Spain is mostly an urban population with a percentage of 79.6%. The capital of spain is Madrid and Barcelona. The general…

steady change in the orientation of the axis of rotation of the Earth. How the earth rotates and what angle it is at changes many things. The sky we see today is different than the sky the people thousands of years ago saw. The southern and northern hemispheres both have varying different constellations. The empires of Southern America charted the sun, moon and stars, so did the Greeks, Romans and Chinese…

Readers are taught that long before Africans were enslaved, Europeans enslaved one another well before the African Slave trade began. The long term contract of the Mediterranean made Klein doubt the importance of “otherness”, of the African to the northern Europeans explaining the reason of the African slave trade (p17). 1 The History of Europeans slavery would have made you believe Africans, and slavery was not so special to the Europeans (p17). 1 The slave trade arose from the European great…

From the very beginning of time, individuals from the olden days noticed the Aurora Borealis which, is also known and called the Northern Lights. Each of the ancient civilizations had their own and unique explanation of them. Many individuals had their own beliefs about them, some believed they were caused and came from rotting wood, while some believed they were magic. Others believed they were in the accompanied by emotional gods and spirits. In China, ancient people believed that the lights…

Its southern territories borders with the northern territories of the United States. Its Northern territories also borders with Alaska a state in the US. Canada is 9.9 million square kilometers and 891,163 of these kilometers are water. The country meets with three oceans which are the Atlantic Ocean, the Artic Ocean and…

The word Ostara is just one of the names applied to the celebration of the spring equinox on March 21. now other religions call it Easter. the Spring Equinox, which in the northern hemisphere is around the 20th or 21st of March and in the southern hemisphere around the 23rd of September. Ostara is called Easter in the christian religion sadly they do not know the whole story behind it so lets get some insight to it. Nature Spirits: Mer-people, Air and Water beings who are connected with spring…

There have been many influential historical figures throughout the Renaissance. Nearly all of these figures are credited as a mighty hero or a brilliant human being. While not all of society may acknowledge Christopher Columbus as a spectacular personage, he still has changed the course of the Renaissance significantly. Born in Genoa Italy, 1451, Christopher not only discovered trade winds and how they work, but he also introduced more efficient weapons to the Native Americans. Yet perhaps…

Tordesillas was signed, this set up a line of demarcation for the expanding empires Spain and Portugal. This deal set up centuries of exploration for the rivaling countries. The Spanish were “given” the western hemisphere to explore and conquer, and Portugal was “given” the eastern hemisphere to explore and…

Within the past fifty years of human intervention, carbon dioxide concentration levels have nearly doubled. So what is the big deal? Humans still exist, the air is still breathable, and mortality rates have never been higher. Mark Bowen is a physicist from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He wrote his book Thin Ice in 2003 to explain the science of global warming. Bowen was part of the Ice Core Paleoclimatology Research Group lead by Lonnie Thompson, a leading paleoclimatologist, to drill…