Volcano Vesuvius Volcano Vesuvius‚ a famous volcano that changed itself and the land around it over the course of it’s time. Vesuvius is located in Southern Italy and is southeast of the Bay of Naples. It is on the plain of Campania. It was approximately 7 miles (11 kilometers) tall in AD 79‚ before it erupted and buried Pompeii and Stabiae in pumice and ash‚ and Herculaneum with mud flows. (The pumice and ash that had hardened covered the villages for over 28 feet tall‚ and plaster casts were found
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The volcano has been slowly building on itself creating the peaks Palea and Nea Kameni. They emerged in 197BC and were first documented by Greek geographer Strabo. There have been eight eruptions with the last taking place in 1950. There were five points when climbing to the top of the caldera. The first point is near the peak of Mikiri‚ Kameni dome‚ the oldest part of Nea Kamini. It was created in 1570 and
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surface‚ it results in a volcanic eruption. Lava – Lava is the rock expelled from a volcano during an eruption. When it first comes out‚ the lava can have a temperature higher than 700 degrees C. It then flows downhill from the eruption point until it cools and hardens. Main Vent – A volcano’s main vent is the point in the Earth’s crust where hot magma has reached the surface. The familiar cone-shaped volcano builds up as ash‚ rock and lava ejected during eruptions fall back to Earth around the
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Despite the European’s view that they were savages‚ Native American lives were steeped in culture. They had an abundance of technological advances and ways to make their lives easier. From their day to day lives‚ they lived off the land as hunters‚ fishers‚ and farmers. This‚ in turn‚ led to constant moving from place to place to find better land and soil for their agricultural needs. Land as they saw it was a common resource for all‚ not a privilege for some. Native Americans were not devoted to
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countries do you associate with …? typhoons smog earthquakes floods hurricanes tornadoes droughts volcano eruptions heavy snow avalanches 2. Complete the sentences with the correct form of words in the box. Avalanche‚ disease‚ drought‚ earthquake‚ epidemic‚ famine‚ flood‚ forest fire‚ hurricane‚ landslide‚ tsunami‚ volcano 1. ___________ have been burning for three weeks in Indonesia and have destroyed thousands of hectares
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by a volcanic eruption. The mudflows and the flow of debris from these are often one of the deadliest volcano hazards. This is the flow of mud‚ rock and water that rush down valley and stream channels reaching speeds of up to 40 mph and can travel more than 50 miles. These mudflows look like fast-moving rivers of wet concrete. These can occur during a volcano’s eruption or when the volcano is quiet. The water creating the flow occurs from melting snow and ice or intense rainfall. Glacier-clad
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El Greco was a painter‚ sculptor‚ and an architect. When in Spain he was the first great genius of his Spanish school. El Greco’s real name is not the one you see on all of the paintings his real name is Domenikos Theotocopoulos. El Greco was born in 1541 and died in 1614. None know of his childhood. In 1566 he became a master painter and moved or traveled to Venice. Later in 1570 he traveled to Rome to meet Giulio Clovio a miniaturist. Very few of his pieces survived the years. One of the surviving
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When reading or watching any form of literature we expect for there to be a happy ending. Many times we use literature to fill the voids in our lives. In “The Far and the Near” an old train engineer‚ who has seen deaths‚ has no family‚ and has performed a solitary and lifeless job for his entire life fills his void by awaiting two o’clock everyday so he can blow his whistle and wave to a mother and daughter. No matter how much a person has done in his life for himself or others‚ we know a happy
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it | | 1. | Start out going south on Cold Spring Rdtoward W 30th St. Zoom to this Step | 0.4 mi | | 2. | Turn left onto W 30th St. * If you reach Granada Cir you’ve gone about 0.2 miles too far | 0.4 mi | | 3. | W 30th St becomes W 29th St. | 1.5 mi | | 4. | Merge onto I-65 S. * If you reach Highland Pl you’ve gone about 0.1 miles too far | 2.9 mi | | 5. | Merge onto I-70 E via EXIT 112A on the lefttoward Columbus Oh.. | 5.3 mi | | 6. | Merge onto I-465 S/US-31 S/US-52
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Near Failure at Nagasaki MGT 3300 Case study 1 Prof. James Walsh 09/29/2014 facts Mission was planned for August 11th but was changed to the 9th due to bad weather Primary target was Kokura and Nagasaki was secondary Bomb to be dropped was called Fat Man‚ a plutonium bomb more complex than the one dropped on Hiroshima 509th commander‚ Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr. choose Maj. Charles W. Sweeney‚ commander of the 393rd Bomb Squadron to command the mission Six B-29s was sent to
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