The Long Valley

valley Forge: Would you quit? If I were in Valley Forge at the time of 1777 and 1778 during the winter I would have not stayed. There are a lot of reasons why I would have not stayed. Some being because the lack of food, for example meat. The camp at Valley Forge was also small, it only had a few houses and huts and a mill for forging iron. That was not a lot to live with while having soldiers. You had to share and sleep in huts with twelve men. I would guess that that would be very cramped…

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Mary “Molly” Ludwig Hays McCauley “Pitcher” Molly Pitcher was a patriot who carried pitchers of water back and forth from a stream to some soldiers and also helped with cannon duty. when she died she was honored with an overprint on a United States postage stamp. Molly Pitcher was born Mary Ludwig on October 13, 1754, near Trenton, New Jersey. She was the daughter of a German dairyman, John George Ludwig. She later moved to Carlisle, Pennsylvania to work as a domestic servant. While living in…

The loss of vital Aztec knowledge is devastating to the cultural history of the Mexico and with proper investigation and speculation, these lost pieces can be put back together. In the lower section of the headdress, an opening was fabricated to fit around the wearer's head. Leather bands were located on the backside of the work and tied around the head to support the headwear securely. Moderately sized azure-tinted quills immediately encompass the opening, forming a half oval design and the…

Meadows, lodging in Yosemite Valley, fishing in the Eastern Sierra and even skiing in the Mammoth Lakes mountain resort. But what any do not know is that all of these attractions were created by one phenomenon, glaciation. On three different occasions during the Great Ice Age era, Yosemite was masked by glacial advances. These specific glaciers “along with stream erosion and mechanical weathering, deepened Yosemite Valley, widened it and produced the extremely steep valley walls” (Glaciers,…

In the late post-classic period of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, the Aztec empire proved to be the largest and most advanced civilization in the region. Until its fall in 1521, the Aztec world was centered at the city of Tenochtitlan and grew to include an estimated 11 million people (Coe and Koontz 235). Warfare was an integral part of Aztec culture, as were religious rituals, which often included sacrifice of some kind. The Effigy Mask of Coyolxauhqui, on show at the Getty Museum Exhibition,…

The destruction of the Tower, the government subsidized highrise for lower income people, in which the Barksdale organization sold most of their drugs was a devastating loss of territory that forced the organization to return to selling drugs on the streets, the events are beneficial to the viewers because it allows the development of characters of Avon Barksdale and Stringer Bell as they attempt to restructure their organization to accommodate the changes. The power that the Barksdale crew has…

Campfire, Yosemite Valley, California is a painting by a renowned artist named Thomas Hill. Hill was born on September 11, 1829, in England. When he was fifteen years old, he and his family moved to the United States. After Hill had turned twenty-four, he joined the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and was highly recognized for his numerous paintings of the vast California landscape. During the time Hill was a student at the Art Academy, he travels to the White Mountains and Yosemite Valley,…

What is the death valley, and how did it get its name? the death valley is a desert that is located in eastern california. it is the lowest, hotest, driest place in North america. Death Vallelys is the point of the lowest elevation in North America, at 282 feet (86 m) below sea level. Death Valley has hot desert climate, with long, extremely hot summers and short, warm or mild winters as well as little rainfall. Rare rainstorms bring vast fields of wildflowers. Lush oases harbor tiny fish and…

Surviving through droughts was not a critical factor to the survival of the Indus Valley Civilization; its people survived because of a remarkably advanced technological engineering not present in any of the Mesopotamian or Egyptian civilizations. The engineering and city planning used to design many of the three main cities of the Indus Valley suggest strong leadership and forethought to incorporate public works, irrigation, indoor plumping, reservoirs, and craft production. Their process of…