a bright yellow biplane. Amelia watched from the sidelines as famous aviators took the challenge of long-distance flights. In 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic. Then, inspired by Charles Lindbergh Amelia became the first women to fly across the Atlantic. Then after other flights, Amelia decided to fly around the world. Amelia spent many months planning her adventure. This flight was 27,000 miles. She had to be very careful. Her plan was to
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Isabella McCabe Mrs. Wachter English 19 May 2016 The Many Theories of Atlantis Atlantis was told to be a charming city that was sunken by the gods because the residents of Atlantis, who were always intelligent, compassionate, and thoughtful people, had turned into greedy people that wanted to take over the world and rule it (Keyes 2). To punish the residents, the gods had the volcanos erupt, the rivers become floods, fires rage, and earthquakes shake the land. With all of the eruptions, water
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Despite Benin's small size, the country's landscape varies from Savanna Grasslands (West Sudanian Savanna) to dense forests (Nigerian Lowland forests and Eastern Guinean Forests), with a mixture of the two found in areas such as the Guinean Forest-Savanna Mosaic. The predominant tropical climate found in the region presents two alternating rainy and dry seasons through the year. Lands used for cotton cultivation can be found throughout the country, however, they are mostly concentrated in the northern
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Jaynie Schultz is President and co-founder of Retreat Central, a “matchmaker” created to serve event planners looking for facilities outside the traditional hotel market. Retreat Central works with children’s summer camps which function as retreat centers during the school year. These retreat centers are affordable, accessible and dedicated to group events, while providing the camps with an additional revenue stream during their off-season. In 1986 Jaynie and her mother Leslie V. Schultz created
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The open ocean and the African plains are both very unique and extravagant places, but they can also be very scary and terrifying. Africa is very similar to the ocean, this does not mean that they aren’t very different. Both the open ocean and the African plains are very similar in many ways. First, both environments are dangerous and deadly. They contain predatory animals and the heat is insane! One wrong move could attract an animal’s attention. In addition, they also require you to use your knowledge
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The Effect of the Panama Canal Expansion on Railroads The Panama Canal was created by President Wilson in 1913 as a means for water carriers to travel between countries and trade goods internationally. This was over 100 years ago now, and ships have increased dramatically in size. The expansion carries a hefty price tag of over $5 billion, but will allow ships that are over double the size of current carriers to pass through the locks (Fierman). With this change in accessibility, one must consider
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The Nicaraguan Canal: Globalism in (In)Action The proposed Nicaraguan Grand Interoceanic Canal is three times as long and twice as deep as the Panama Canal (Watts, 2015). The increased size would allow the Nicaraguan Grand Canal to accommodate shipping vessels significantly larger than what the Panama Canal can currently fit, and was a central theme of President Daniel Ortega’s victorious 2013 reelection campaign. The massive project is funded by Chinese billionaire Wang Jing, and controversy surrounding
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Moses Brown was the captain of the schooner The Speck and had lived in Boston, Massachusetts all of his 45 years of his life. His father and grandfather were Captains. His first voyage was at the age of 13 with his father, he went to sea the first time as a cabin boy. He never had any doubt in his mind that he wanted to be a captain because of the large number of Fishing boats, Military boats and Trading boats. There were more boats in Massachusetts than anywhere else in the thirteen colonies, over
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It was now the evening of the twelfth day out of sight of land and the Canary Islands. For twelve straight days there has been no sign of land other than the occasional birds and bits of weed floating in the endless ocean. Columbus sat on a coil of rope near the bow of the ship and watched the setting sun as it faded over the horizon. He stared at the sun so intently that when his eyes turned from the sun and he looked at the surface of the water, purple spots floated about as he rubbed his eyes
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A Fishless Sea Sylvia Earle is to our generation as Jacque Cousteau was to the generation of the 1950’s. They are public figures in which many fellow scientists look up to. They are oceanographers, explorers, and conservationists. Earle has held an unthinkable amount of positions in her years. Positions from field research scientist, to government official, to director for both corporate and nonprofit organizations. More specifically she was the first woman chief scientist of the NOAA, the founder
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