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On May 14, 1607, three ships carrying 110 people sailed to the land of Virginia, named after the virgin queen, Queen Elizabeth I of England. They traveled through Chesapeake Bay, and settled at the mouth of James River, naming their settlement “Jamestown”. Within a year, half of the colonists were dead. How? That is the question archeologists have pondered for years: How did so many Jamestown colonists die? Well, there are three crucial reasons why so many settlers perished. Those are: Lack of…

beaches, there are also active volcanoes that have a popular attraction. Hawaii is a state in the United States of America. Hawaii is made up of eight islands. The islands are named Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Niihau, Hawaii and Kahoolawe. Honolulu is located on the southeast coast of the third largest island in Hawaii, Oahu. The city is in the North Pacific Ocean and south…

The juxtaposition of characters is also used to portray the main conflict within the plot. As mentioned before, Treasure Island has Jim Hawkins as its central protagonist and Long John Silver as the antagonist. The two characters are juxtaposed as opposing forces, as one is clearly 'good' and the other 'evil'. Thus, the plot revolves around the central conflict of man-versus-man as Jim and Silver, as well as their respective supporting members, engage with each other in order to survive and find…

as well as other infrastructures. Hundreds were left stranded, cut off by lava flows with no power, working water and electricity. Para 1 Hawaii is an island located in the Pacific Ocean. It is part of the USA so it is recognized as the 50th state admitted to the union on August 20th, 1959. The state of Hawaii consists of eight main islands: Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Kahoolawe. Hawaii is a very popular holiday…

Alcatraz was built as a maximum security prison, it was capable of escape, but prisoners never made it off the island alive. This prison on the water was built to hold the most dangerous criminals, because it was the hardest prison to escape from. Today you can visit and or tour Alcatraz it is now a national park for people to witness some of the stuff prisoners had to go through being there. Alcatraz has a lot of things people don’t know about it like what was the purpose, how many…

Lake Mungo is a dried up lake situated in the southwestern corner of New South Wales, Australia. For the past 120,000 years, sediments from the lake kept building up, forming the “Walls of China”. But also, during those years, erosion from the rain worked its way against the rock, revealing ancient objects such as fossils, megafauna, and clay balls. In 1969, Jim Bowler discovered a skeleton sticking out of the ground, later named Mungo Woman, then a couple years later in 1974, he found another…

ever record as ruling the island was King Mailikukahi. Known as the law maker, he was followed by 300 years of kings. Today, the most famous remnant of the Hawaiian kings is found at the Iolani palace. Built after the capital was moved from Maui to Honolulu, this palace is the only royal residence on American soil. Captain James Cook Explores Hawaii On January 19, 1776, Captain James Cook first sighted Oahu aboard the HMS Resolution. This was the first Hawaiian island to be discovered, and…

Mount Mauna Loa is located on the Island of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The name Mauna Loa means “Long Mountain” in Hawaiian (Minicola). It is one of the five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaii. Mauna Loa is the second largest overall volcano in the world covering a land area of 5,271 km2 (Shute). It makes up more than half of the surface area of the island of Hawaii. Mauna Loa rises 9,170 m from base to summit, greater than the 8,848 m elevation of Mount Everest from sea level to its…

as the nation's most secure prison, although it held many escapees. This prison lasted for 29 years. It is located on Alcatraz Island sitting in the middle of San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz is now known as a tourist hot-spot, you can take day or night trips and even spend the night in a cell. After the U.S. government bought the island back in 1933, and turned this island into a prison; all of America’s most notorious felons have been either put or transfered here. If you did something very…

Between the years of 585 to 569 B.C.E. Pythagoras was born into Samos, Greece by his parents, Pythais and Mnesarchus. Not only did he have three siblings known as Themistoclea, Tyrrhenus, and Eunomus, but he also had a wife named Theano along with four children known as Arignote, Telauges, Myia, and Damo. He was a Greek philosopher and the founder of the pythagoreanism movement. He was well educated and very interested in mathematics, philosophy, and astronomy. At the age of eighteen, Pythagoras…