means “nine village valley”. The name is from the nine Tibetan villages along its length. Jiuzhaigou located at the southern end of the Minshan mountain range that is the northwestern of Sichuan province. The valley is known for its many multi-level waterfalls‚ colorful lakes‚ and snow-capped peaks. Its elevation ranges from 6‚600 to 14‚800 ft. I went there with my friends at the spring of 2009. First we took a flight to the capitol city airport at Sichuan. Then we took a bus drive us to the Jiuzhaigou
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RIZAL’S GRAND TOUR OF EUROPE WITH VIOLA (1887) •May 11‚ 1887 - Rizal and Viola left Berlin by train •Dresden- one of the best cities in Germany •Prometheus Bound -painting wherein Rizal was deeply impressed •Teschen (now Decin‚ Czechoslovakia) - next stopover after leaving Dresedn LEITMERITZ: •At 1:30pm of May 13‚ 1887 - the train‚ with Rizal and Viola on board‚ arrived at the railroad station of Leitmeritz‚ Bohemia-for the first time‚ the two great scholars—Rizal and Blumentritt—met
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is by far the grandest of all the special temples of nature I was permitted to.” I asked the park ranger how many acres of land is Yosemite made of. He said 748‚036 acres. Yosemite is definitely a national treasure. There is soaring cliffs‚ huge waterfalls‚ and vast meadows inside the territory of Yosemite. There are many activities you can do. President Theodore Roosevelt said‚ “There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite‚ the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods...and
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Hundreds of years ago in the year 2009 there was a lady. A smart lady called professor Sonia Ericson who was realising that pollution was destroying the Environment. Something needed to be done. Professor Sonia Ericson then realised that the only way to save the world was by obtaining seeds from all the trees in the world then put the seeds in a time capsule. She buried them in Ben Nevis Mountain. Now it’s the year 2335 the world is a dead wasteland‚ the people of the world live in dome cities
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A STUDY OF BOATING INDUSTRY IN PAGSANJAN‚ LAGUNA (PAGSANJAN FALLS) PART II 2. INTRODUCTION 2.1 Background of the Study According to Dr. Gregorio F. Zaide et al. (1975)‚ in his book Pagsanjan‚ In History and in Legend‚ the real history of Pagsanjan began in 1668 when it emerged as a town. Years before that time‚ it was a barrio of Lumban. Across three centuries‚ it has survived all natural and man-made cataclysms‚ including the Philippine Revolution and World War II. During the long interim
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Monkey Imagine writing about a book about your own world‚ and you are the leader. That is exactly what the novel Monkey written by Wu Cheng’en is about. Wu Cheng’en was born in 1504 in Lianshiu‚ Jiangsu during the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty lasted from 1368 to 1644‚ and it was the growth of “common” literature. Wu Cheng’en was born into a poor family‚ so he grew up poor. Wu failed the government exam twice‚ and it was a huge disgrace to his family. Wu retired as a hermit‚ because he believed
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Camping is Fun People who love the wild and adventurous outdoors will totally enjoy camping. Nothing beats taking a short or long break away from those stressful‚ hair yanking days back at home sweet home than waking up to peace and tranquility. Beautiful ladies‚ handsome gentlemen‚ silly boys and girls of all ages are never too young or too old to go a few hot summer days and cool breezy nights out camping with close friends and supportive families. It does not mean that it is appropriate to
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Any great change must have a face‚ a point of influence‚ and Peekay is exactly that for his people. “A waterfall begins with only one drop of water‚ look what comes from that.”- (Peekay‚ T.P.O.O Brice Courtenay.) Like every change the fight for black Africans rights needed someone to stand up and push the movement into motion. Once one person stands up it has an effect that resembles a waterfall. A drop starts the flow and billions of others join it forming a force that is unstoppable. “I dream
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The Last of the Mohicans Everyone has fantasies of being a super hero and leaping tall buildings in a single bound or staring death in the face everyday and somehow finding a way to escape. All of these imaginative thoughts have been derived from the past literary works by the great writer’s of the early American literary period. These early writer’s entered society into a world of action and adventure‚ where one can see spectacular events unfolding through the eyes of a notorious man of courage
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In the left screen‚ two boys are carrying bundles of books and scrolls follow a hatted man headed toward a thatched pavilion. Inside‚ three servants have unrolled a painted hanging scroll for their master‚ who stands at the parapet gazing at a waterfall. Moving right to left through the screens‚ we find that we have also traveled temporally‚ from the barren plum branches of early spring‚ through a hazy summer‚ geese landing on a sandbank in autumn‚ and finally to the snow-covered rocks of
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