Yak

put in the effort in the 19C and 20C to domesticate large animals such as moose and elk. Only fourteen large animals have been domesticated. Such as sheep, pigs, cows, Arabian camels, Bactrian camels, llamas, donkeys, reindeers, water buffaloes, yaks, Bali cattle, and Mithans. Some species like zebra have never been domesticated. Domesticated animals changed through mutations from their non domesticated cousins. Many has gotten smaller than what they was in the past due to domestication.…

The beauty of armchair travels is that at any moment you can be any place in the world and discover new and wonderful things. From the Andaman Islands we step onto the mainland of India. Our first stop here is a lovely town Darjeeling, located in the West Bengal State of India in the Himalayan foothills. It is well-known for its distinctive black tea that is grown on plantations doting the surrounding slope. The town’s backdrop is Mt. Kanchenjunga, among the world’s highest peaks. The region’s…

After the end of World War II, the 38th parallel latitude line became the division in Korea, splitting the tiny, East Asian peninsula into what we know today as North Korea and South Korea (Pierpaoli, Paul Jr., 1). In 1948, the Republic of Korea was established in South Korea, while in North Korea, the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea took hold. The Soviet Union occupied the Northern half of Korea, and the United States occupied the Southern half. The government 's’ contrasting aspirations…

Ama Dablam Expedition- 32Days of Life !! Ama Dablam 6,856m (22,494ft) is one of the most impressive mountains in the world. It is located the heart of Everest's Khumbu region, it lies directly above Tengboche Monastery on the well-worn path to Everest Base Camp and is admired by thousands of trekkers and climbers every year. This expedition offers a superb, technical climbing experience in a magnificent setting, with numerous cultural and scenic diversions. Like the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps…

When you’re weary, feeling small, when tears are in your eyes…who you gonna call? When you’ve fallen so far, there are only two options: Flight takes you deeper into unfamiliar darkness; fight must be nurtured from somewhere within you and offers no promises. >>>>>>> The pressure, it just depresses you. When your spirit and soul, your mind and your ego, are all on the post-iceberg Titanic, all you can do is find someplace through meditation or otherwise where you can…

zor nabo. Hamu wak yak boyn, There were not so many differences. We were all similar”. In other words, the gaps between the haves and have-nots were not so wide. In the 1990s, almost all people lacked access to similar things, which is no longer the case. The new polarization, and inequality anger people more than the actually lack of things. Today, not having means something different to the different groups and people are live together with very different lifestyles. And for the majority who…

The Fire-dwellers, a novel by Margaret Laurence demonstrates Susan Maushart’s theory of the Mask of Motherhood, through the portrayal of the main character Stacey MacAindra. Stacey is the mother of four children, age of thirty-nine and has been married to Mac (Clifford) MacAindra for sixteen years, from the outside world everything seems fine in her life but at a closer look one can see the daily internal and external struggles Stacey goes through. The Mask of Motherhood is a theory that…