Siberia

Carbonation is another type of chemical weathering. Carbonation is the mixing of water with carbon dioxide to make carbonic acid. This type of weathering is important in the formation of caves. Dissolved carbon dioxide in rainwater or in moist air forms carbonic acid, and this acid reacts with minerals in rocks. chemical weathering tends to be different sorts of chemicals mixed together to form a material. Rust is a good example of what chemical weathering can do. With an increase in…

nearly all of the world’s silver ended up in China and other parts of Asia. Multiple routes led to China due to the intense desire for Chinese commodities in exchange for silver (economic). “soft gold”- the precious and highly-desired fur pelts in Siberia during the 16th and 17th centuries. There was a large market for these pelts in both China and Europe, which enriched the Russian state and private hunters…

I could see the lights of a massive ship and it was coming straight towards me! I had been climbing the iceberg for four hours, and I finally reached the top. My face was numb from the chilly ocean breeze, I felt like a frozen zombie; tired, cold, and extremely hungry. The ship was coming fast, and I was stranded on a rather large iceberg. I had to plan my escape, and quickly! I have had some pretty strange experiences while climbing. Once, I was hiking in the Otzal Alps, and I came across…

Vermeer’s Hat by Timothy Brook, looks at globalization in the 1600s through the works of Johannes Vermeer. These works include, View of Delft, Officer and Laughing Girl, Young Woman Reading a Letter, The Geographer, Woman Holding a Balance, and The Card Players. The book also looks at works that are not Vermeer’s, including, a plate from the Lambert Van Meerten Museum of Delft, and Emperor Guan, The Chinese God of War. Brooks uses these works of art to examine globalization, through the close…

table and published it. He created and discovered it in the most interesting way. Even though he struggled through his childhood, he managed to have a good life. He also achieved a lot of goals after the periodic table. Dmitri was born in Tobolsk, Siberia on February 7, 1834. He had 14 siblings, and since he had such a big family it was hard for his parents to get money. When his father became blind they became poorer. Dmitri’s mother had a choice to get rid of Dmitri’s education for more…

The Gulag was the correctional system of the previous Soviet Union. Prisoners were shipped to labor camps and were required to work without pay. Citizens could be sent to the Gulag for serious crimes, but also for petty violations like showing up late for work, missing work, or stealing food for your hungry family. Many prisoners were also there for political reasons. If you spoke out against the government, or if party administrators saw you as a threat to their authority, you could be…

does not define me, it is merely something that happened to me. Though the experience stands as the greatest hardship of my life, overcoming it gave me and my family the opportunity to cultivate a unique perspective. When I was a child living in Siberia, my father was away in the army. My mother Zhana would only appear every other day as her life revolved around alcohol and men. Caring for my three younger sisters fell to me. The year I turned five, she disappeared, leaving me abandoned and…

controlling the entire climate. In the winter figures from Leroux’s Global Warming: Myth or Reality? provides photos taken from March 6th through the 11th of the year 2003 of an El Nino that originated in north-eastern siberia and migrated south eastward but suddenly disappeared. Winter time in siberia consists of powerful AA’s, anticyclonic agglutination, which causes a shift of the philippines closer south to indochina and indonesia. The El Nino effect is proof that humans are not the only…

On December eighteenth 1879 in Gori, Georgia, a small peasant village in Russia, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (more commonly known as Joseph Stalin) was born into a large family. Stalin had two brothers, Georgy Jughashvili, born one year before Stalin, and Mikhail Jughashvili, born three years before Stalin. However, none of Stalin's siblings survived through infancy. Stalin's father, Besarion Jughashvili, was a cobbler though later became an alcoholic and later becoming a vagrant.…

Ruta Sepetys, the writer of Between Shades of Gray, created a compelling tale about the horrors that the Lithuanians endured during World War 2. However, aside from the main story, Sepetys includes miniature flashbacks that occurred during Lina’s life in the form of short stories. These flashbacks go hand in hand with the existing circumstances, for example, the memories help Lina make decisions in the NKVD camps where she is held as a prisoner. Additionally, Lina eases her mind with thoughts of…