The mystery of Easter Island has puzzled humanity for years. Easter Island is the world’s most remote inhabited island (“The Mystery of Easter Island”), but a group of people managed to sail there and establish a society that created about 900 stone statues across the island ("Easter Island -- World Heritage Site -- National Geographic”). Over the years, scientists have discovered many facts about the people of Easter Island and their achievements, and have been able to create several plausible
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1. Escape: What does the play tell us about the ability to escape? Can this be realized? If so, do the negative consequences outweigh the rewards? In the ability to escape, "The Glass Menagerie" tells us that you can either escape from reality to live your dreams, or you can escape from your dreams to live your reality. The ability to escape can be realized through self actualization and/or life-changing experiences. It depends on the situation, but in certain cases the negative consequences
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Easter’s End and The Lorax In Easter Island there use to be approximately more than several thousands of people living there but throughout time went extinct. The people that lived there were able to wipe out all their resources such as trees and were able to use them for things they needed. Due to these actions more and more trees were being cut down in order to be used as something else and this led to deforestation just like in the movie The Lorax. In the movie the Once-ler also is shown to be
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The unexplained 400 year old mystery of England’s first colony, Roanoke Island, is an enigma that historians cannot let continue to go unanswered. In 2013, researchers used magnetometers and ground-penetrating radars (GPR) to search the site of the lost colony, demonstrating that investigators are still searching for answers. Ever since John White returned to 120 missing colonists in 1590, many theories have been introduced. Assumptions that vary from factual, educated hypothesis to unfounded, unsubstantiated
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Mysteries: Easter Island In 1722 the first European that we know of found Easter Island and its people. The ancient people of the island where carving these great statues called “moai”. No one is sure how they moved these statues around the island and why they did exactly ( the History). We are aware of some facts about the moai, but the theories about why they where built and how they where moved are still remain uncertain. 1.) Facts The statues, the moai, found on Easter Island are some of the
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The spring of 1623 found the ship Jonathon and it’s very few passengers landing 50 miles north of the present day Boston. This handful of men, under the leadership of David Thompson, had come to the New World to earn money for a group of men in England known as the Plymouth Council. They were to evaporate sea water to obtain salt to preserve the fish they caught, they were also to cut timber. These products were to be shipped to England and sold. If the endeavor prospered the settlement would
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Alcatraz is a prison that is based on an island in the San Francisco Bay in California. The prison was named an inescapable prison because it was surrounded by fifty to fifty four degree water. The island was first discovered by land in 1755 by Lt. don Juan Manuel de Ayala but had been seen by Sir Francis Drake when he docked in San Francisco bay. The prison is known for having some of the deadliest and most deceiving inmates out of any other prison. The prison has had many escape attempts but most
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(June 18, 2017). Josh Bernstein, an American explorer, anthropologist who presented such informative documentary on the events occur and present evidences about the lost colonies . Bernstein gives a detailed abstract of the settlement of Roanoke Island and he shares how DNA proves and proposes at least one settler survived and today, there may be a few of his descent still alive. On May 8, 1587 over 100 settlers sailed from Plymouth on a small boat which included men, women and children. Numerous
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Roanoke In August 1590, English explore John white sailed to Roanoke Island. The first contact they had was with a native from Roanoke island the native approached one of the ships in a canoe alone. They became friends with the natives in Roanoke, and the English started an expedition on the island. They took two natives back with them to England; one was named Manitou and the other native name was Wanchis, to prove what they found on their trip, the queen was delighted and wanted to expand more
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Never had your passport stamp or seen a passport stamp? Well, now you can at your local historic site, right here in York City. As an official member of the National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, the William C. Goodridge Freedom House located at 123 East Philadelphia Street is honored to announce that it has received its own National Park Passport Stamp. The William C. Goodridge Freedom House and Underground Railroad Museum is the first historic museum in York County
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