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This article is intended to discuss the causes that led to the death of the dinosaurs. It mainly exposes the two alternative hypotheses that might have caused this mass extinction by explaining the main reasoning behind each of these premises. The author exposes the points of views of different scientists and geologists in regards to the death of the dinosaurs, which- somehow- remains one of the most heated and contested “battles in science”. Particularly, the paper explains the stance of one…

Two hundred and fifty two years ago, huge volcanoes erupted in Siberia and continued to put out basalt lava and clouds of gases for up to five hundred thousand years (Benton 1). They were not the average cone shaped volcanoes we know today, instead they are huge rifts in the Earth’s crust (Benton 2). There is much…

surface. It consists of soil, gravel, and sand, usually bound together by ice. Permafrost usually remains at or below 0C (32F) for at least two years”. The most frequent places you will find permafrost is in the Northern Hemisphere, mostly found in Siberia, northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland. Because of the longevity of the lasting permafrost, a plethora of infrastructure has been built on the very ground that permafrost exist. But now, for some reason, these infrastructures has been…

Joseph Stalin, the dictator of the USSR ( Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) between 1929 and 1953, was born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili (იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი) in Georgian but Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (Иосиф Виссарионович Джугашвили) in Russian. He was born in Gori, Georgia, which was then part of the Russian empire on the 18th of December 1878. However, he made a new birthdate up for himself claiming that he was born on the 21st of December 1879. He had an exceedingly…

Columbus [http://www.history.com/topics/exploration/leif-eriksson]. Although Erikson was the first european, it is now widely believed that the first people to inhabit the Americas ‘descended from northeast Asia, arriving over a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska some 12,000 years ago and then migrating across North and South America’ [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/09/0903_030903_bajaskull.html]. The first hunter and gatherer tribe from northeast Asia were experiencing a…

Cannabis is believed to have evolved on the steppes of Central Asia, specifically in the regions that are now Mongolia and southern Siberia. The earliest record of cannabis use dates back as far as 2737 BC, in the writings of the Chinese Emperor Shen Nung. It was used then primarily for medicinal purposes in treating diseases such as gout, malaria, and rheumatism. Even then however, the intoxicating effects were known. Cannabis cultivation was then spread by farmers to Korea as early as 2000…

crowd send a party of five representatives to speak with him. The men he spoke with explained that they needed the visas to escape Nazi Europe(Leslie). They had different escape routes, but most consisted of riding the Trans-Siberian railroad to Siberia, boarding at Vladivostok, hoping to land in Tsuruga and off to other destinations(About Chiune). Sugihara agreed to their plan, and sent three cables to the Japanese ambassador in Germany, the Japanese ambassador in Latnia, and to his superior…

researchers interpret the discovered figurines as being religious artifacts that were used in domestic rituals, Figurines such as these are especially used for ancestral veneration. ancestral veneration was a practice most probably carried over from Siberia from early Paleo-Indians, as it was commonly practiced throughout the Americas is a variety of forms. Besides appeasing household gods and venerating ancesters, figurines were also used to mark important milestones in the life-history of…

To what extent did the USSR involvement in World War Two help shape the war? Talk about: land/air/sea battles, international relations, industrial suffrage to fight on It was 1941, Germany under the control of Adolf Hitler had taken over most of Europe and more: From France to Poland to Norway to Algeria. Most of Europe was overrun, forced into the third Reich or made as a German Puppet state. On the 22th of July, Germany launched a massive campaign named Operation Barbarossa to destroy the…

the villagers think of their future, they sing fondly of the village they are leaving the family is packing the wagon to leave. Tzeitel and Motel are staying in Warsaw until they have enough money to go to America. Hodel and Perchik are still in Siberia. Chava appears with Fyedka. Tevye refuses to acknowledge her. Chava explains that they are also leaving because they cannot stay among people who can do such things to others. They are going to Cracow. Tzeitel says goodbye to them and Tevye…