5 Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, Malta: A sound Mystery We invented Dolbi surround sound, they invented something else. This Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni, Malta (Link 5-a) is a series of built in odd and disorderly fashion, which are linked by passages, stairways and caverns. This is the only available underground structure of the Bronze Age whose creation was completed even before that of Great Pyramid and Stonehenge. Built during 3600 to 2500 BC, its weird architecture consists of many vaults, domes, spirals, carved pillars, niches and corbelled arches. This place has been shrouded in mystery and a center of attraction for architects, archeologists, acoustic experts, anthropologists, forensic experts, neurologists, and psychologists for certain reasons.
I, Edmond Smith, declare the following statements to be true. I've known Steven Oliva since 2005. Steven Oliva is very gifted in many areas: computer technician, videographer, and car repair, and playing the drums. He's helped me fix my car many times. He would often work on my car without wanting to be paid, but I paid him a little anyways, because I did not want to take advantage of him. He has also helped fix my computer many times for free. I have seen Steven help fix his mother and brother's cars as well without expecting to be paid. Steven is a focused, determined, hard worker and sacrifices eating until the job is done. Steven is good at thinking outside of the box, and solves problems easily, where others struggle, he excels.
On the night of September 1st 1939, the loud noise of air raid alarms awoke 19 year old Michael Furchester. Michael quickly ran outside with his mother and they saw airplanes swarm the smoke filled sky like bees around a hive. Michael and his mother froze In fear as they suddenly realized that they were in the middle of an enemy attack.Knowing they were in great danger they ran for cover to the other side of town. Michael and his mother took shelter in an old warehouse where other people gathered as well.
“Ordinary human beings are born with an extraordinary ability to fight evil with decency” (Rusesabagina 109). Paul Rusesabagina is the definition of this quote , he was an ordinary man, with an extraordinary tongue. Paul’s tongue was his most significant asset throughout his career, the genocide, and his life. Paul did not need a machete or a knife during the genocide, his tongue was his weapon. He used the power of his tongue to defend the refugees, the Hotel Mille Collines, his family, and himself from the evilness of the genocide.
During my lifetime I encountered many amazing people. One man who I admire most is my friend, Billy Selingo. Billy is twenty-seven years old and currently attending Manhattanville College to receive his master’s degree. Billy always been a very talented hockey player, as a freshman he began at the Holderness School then attended a post grad year at the Selects Academy at South Kent, which totals five years at the competitive prep school level. Next up for him was a scholarship to continue his hockey career at Manhattanville College, where the team competed at the division three hockey level. Billy had more skill than most of the team, he thought by playing at the division three level he would receive more playing time than he was actually getting. Halfway through the season he grew very upset, this
Sergi Goralick once introduced was shown as a loner who prefers to be by himself. Sergi was introduced when a young boy who was going door to door asking people a question for a homemade documentar. Sergi refused to be part of the video, but the kid was stubborn and somehow got inside the house where he spotted a fish, and went over to look at it. Sergi, without hesitation hit the boy over the head with a burner from his stove, but accidentally killing him. It was then revealed that the goldfish was a talking fish that grants three wishes, the fish says that he could simply wish that him and the boy were back at the front door and the murder would have never happened. Sergi refuse the suggestion, because in the final scene it's revealed that
Christopher Sly was born in West Cornwall, Connecticut. He lived in this extremely small town up to his sophomore year of college . He had a rough childhood, his dad was a drunk man who left when he was about twelve and his mother was a hard working waitress at the diner. Christopher had very good grades but always skipped classes. One day he was called down to the principal's office. The principal said, “ Kid you have a bright future but you won’t get anywhere if you don’t take the opportunities you are given, I’m offering you one last opportunity, I put in a word for you at the towns newspaper you haven’t got the job but I did get you an interview. I hope to hear great news”. He was a bright kid who had a bright future ahead him but it took
There is one thing Jonathan Lipnicki wants to make clear: He is no longer 6 years-old. In fact, the actor turned 25 last October. Many remember Lipnicki as the lovable child star in such movies as Jerry Maguire , Stuart Little (1 and 2), and The Little Vampire. However he has been busy and according to Lipnicki, has a few projects in post-production.
Robert Hill is the creator of Sweeter Solutions ~ a resource he created to help others in achieving true health. Rob was born in Massachusetts and is a North Shore native. He faced remarkable adversity throughout his childhood, but it was nothing quite like his journey to health. Upon graduating high school, Rob moved north to the town of Durham to begin his college career at the University of New Hampshire as an undeclared student. When Rob showed up to school for his Fall semester his entire life changed.
David Giuntoli as Nicholas "Nick" Burkhardt, the eponymous Grimm. Nick is a Homicide detective, whose Aunt Marie (Kate Burton) tells him that he is descended from a line of hunters, called Grimms, who fight supernatural forces. Even before his abilities manifested, Nick had an exceptional ability to make quick and accurate deductions about the motivations and pasts of individuals, which has now expressed itself as his ability to perceive aspects of the supernatural that nobody else can see. He temporarily lost his Grimm power after the event of season 3 finale through a revenge scheme by Adalind, but regained them in the season 4 episode "Highway of Tears". He later learns that Adalind is carrying his child, which was revealed to be a boy,
A man named Ben Schlappig is a homeless man but he flew first class around world to Dubai. He kept his instagram followers in his mind while he was on his flight he took photos of everything and posted them on instagram. He did not pay for this with money he saved up air miles and credit card points to afford this 40,000-dollar flight. If I could save up that many air miles and credit card points I would have done the same thing he did and flew first class to Dubai. He has only been homeless for the last year and a half. He lost the keys to his front door and he said why bother paying rent when a bed was just one first class ticket away. He started saving up air miles a decade ago that means that he was fourteen when he started saving air miles.
Steven VanIwaarden, when you talk with him, might throw off your expectations. Steven’s dress is that of collared shirts, sweaters, and other fine clothes. Though, you could easily see his likeable clothes swapped out for that of a lumberjack, who works long days logging the forests of the northeast and midwest during the 19th century. He could easily fit this logger persona because of his size and stature. Steven stands larger than six feet tall and is stout in build. He has dark hair and stubble lines his jaw. He speaks not like a cartoonish Paul Bunyan, but instead is very soft spoken. He wishes he could transfer his voice into that of singer Daniel Johns, an Australian artist in the grunge/rock band Silverchair. He likes John's voice the most because “it has a wide
Serpent Mound is the largest prehistoric effigy mound documented, in the world. The human- made earthwork has fascinated people for years, especially archaeologists who wanted to know who built the earthwork and when. Frederick Putnam did some of the earliest archaeological excavations and reconstructions at Serpent Mound in the 1880s (Putnam 1890). Since the 1880s, several researchers have worked at the site trying to unravel Serpent Mound’s history. Researchers have proposed two primary hypotheses that the mound was either created by Adena culture (~2,300 years ago) or Fort Ancient culture (~900 years ago) (Herrmann 2014, p. 119). The most recent work done shows strong evidence for the mound being build ~2,300 years ago by Adena people (Romain
I do not think it was wrong for Abram to sleep with Hagar during this era in the Old testament according to the Bible concerning Abram, Sari and Hagar. The Israel’s culture was “tribal.” In our course book, “The patriarch was responsible for the economic well-being of his family, he enforced law, and he had responsibility to care for his own who became marginalized through poverty, death and war.” (Richter, 2008. P.25).The custom at that time, if you could not have children was to let the husband sleep with a slave. When the situation with Sari and Hagar developed into conflict between each other. Hagar ran away to a spring, “The angel said, “Go back to Sarai and be her slave. I will give you a son, who will be called Ishmael because I have
The Egyptian pyramids have been the subject of many outlandish claims and construction theories for centuries. The Great Pyramid for example has been associated with pyramid power, curses, Atlantis, Mexican pyramids, Stonehenge, Nazca, the Bermuda Triangle, Biblical prophecy, Martian faces, advanced civilizations, space aliens, cavity resonators, and even levitation. It is not surprising that some who have proposed such theories have been dubbed "pyramidiots". This paper will attempt to give a more logical solution to the methods ancient Egyptians may have had used, and the problems they may have had, using factual information, scientific evidence and a bit of common sense.
In the deserts of Egypt lie the colossal remains of an ancient civilization. These enormous works of human endeavor are the only member of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World that time has passed down to us. These are, of course, the great pyramids of ancient Egypt. But these imposing structures were not built to impress civilization millennia down the road. The pyramids in fact had a purpose to the ancient Egyptians. While they seem very simple in nature, as they are simply four-sided pyramids with square bases, they had a meaning for those that had them built. Even by today’s standards, the pyramids of ancient Egypt were an impressive feat of engineering, due to their enormous size, both in building materials and finished product.