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    out and placed the body in Natron in about 40-50 days they remove the body from the natron and replace the old stuffing with new stuffing made out of saw dust . The body was rapped in layers of linen . After the mummy was finished they put in a sarcophagus. The After Life In the ancient Egypt Egyptians blieved in the After life . In the after life there’s was games that lasted a long time food that taste better then what they had…

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    Chernobyl Research Paper

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    - Elena Vladimirovna Filatova enjoys riding her motorcycle (big ninja) to North from Kiev, towards so called Chernobyl "dead zone because ether roads are untouched my civilization cars and trucks. Also, no one in insight. -Radiation is measured by a device called a Geiger counter. - Cities, in Russia and America, it will read 10-12 microroentgen per hour, supposedly. - A dose of 500 roentgen within 5 hours is fatal to humans. -However, it takes about 2 1/2 times the dose for humans to kill a…

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    Metropolitan Museum Report

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    Egyptian lands, it even has a reconstructed pyramid, and I didn't even get to experience more than half of the artifacts. One enormous piece that caught my attention, centered in the middle of the Greek and Roman art on the main floor was a marble sarcophagus lid. This masterful piece had a man and a woman (presumably husband and wife) lying about as if they were lying next to a riverbed. It was from the Roman Severan…

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    The Chernobyl Disaster

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    nuclear reaction. After a few weeks passed, the response crew started to construct a concrete unit called a Sarcophagus to cover the damage reactor to prevent further damage. Studies show that The Soviet authorities started the concrete sarcophagus to cover the destroyed Chernobyl reactor in May 1986 and completed the extremely challenging job six months later. Officials considered the sarcophagus a temporary fix to filter radiation out of the gases from the destroyed reactor before the gas was…

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    Some nuclear power plants benefit humans by creating a needed supply of electricity. They are usually built near water to remove the heat the reactor produces. The way that this happens is the power plants heat water to produce the electricity. With the steam that’s produced from the heated water, large turbines begin to spin that essentially generate the electricity. The nuclear power plants use the heat that is produced during nuclear fission to heat the water. A nuclear fission is when…

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    The Chernobyl Incident of 1986 April 26, 1986 is the date of the biggest nuclear meltdown in history. While the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a.k.a. the USSR, was in control of Ukraine, it built multiple nuclear power plants. However, these nuclear power plants were not as safe as the ones built in the west-ern countries due to the lack of a safety culture in the USSR. Soviet Russia had boasted how its nuclear power plants were the safest ones in the world in previous press conferences…

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    I was a girl that lived in the era of Star Wars. In simpler wording, a girl that lived at the time that the Star Wars movies where coming out. I remember being absolutely obsessed with Star Wars at the time. I dreamed of becoming a Sith, using a lightsaber, and I wanted to control the Force. The Force is the energy that binds all things together. The Sith where people from the dark side, and I liked the evil better than good, I always wanted to join the Sith lord. It was the night of Christmas,…

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    often covered with paintings and hieroglyphics telling of the life of the deceased. A molded mask of the dead or a portrait on linen or wood sometimes decorated the head end of the case. This double case was placed in a coffin and deposited in a sarcophagus. They used bitumen, a material like asphalt, to seal up their mummies. The bodies of less wealthy people were merely dried with salt and wrapped with coarse cloths. The poorest people could not afford mummification. In conclusion, I learned…

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    Alexander Mosaic Analysis

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    The Alexander Mosaic from the House of Faun I think that the Alexander Mosaic is a painting capturing the war that was going on during this time period. It seems as if the right side is doing better than the left. Also, the left side seems terrified since a lot of soldiers have been lost in the battle, which is shown by the lack of people on the left side of the painting. It also seems as if one of the men on the right side doesn’t want to be fighting in this battle and is reaching out to the…

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    Egypt was unified into one Kingdome around 2900 years ago. The rulers, the pharos, chose the Nile delta city of Memphis as their first capital. Pyramided building began during the Old-Kingdome , reaching its highest level with the construction of the Giza pyramids. The product of Epoch of magnificence, these inaccessible structures, symbolized the potion of the god-king pharaohs. The largest and best know pyramid is the one that belongs to Pharaoh Khufu (Greek:cheaops) , who reigned from 2589…

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