Carter and Sadie have been separated for 6 years in the past due of their mother’s death. Sadie has lived with their maternal grandparents while her older brother, Carter has traveled the world with their father, a renowned African American Egyptologist. In London on Christmas Eve for a rare evening together, Carter and Sadie accompany their dad to the British Museum, where he blows up the Rosetta Stone in summoning an Egyptian god. Unleashed, the vengeful god overpowers and entombs him, but Sadie and Carter escape. Carter and Sadie discover the secrets of their family heritage and their ability to work magic as they realize that their task will be to save humanity from Set, who is building a destructive red pyramid inside Camelback Mountain
Rocky Mountain National Park has it all: a pristine mountain lake, aspen leaves trembling in the breeze, craggy mountain peaks covered in snow. Although Rocky Mountain National Park is an eighth the size of Yellowstone, it packs everything in it’s 266,714 acres of land. Majestic mountain views can be found literally everywhere, and you don’t even have to step out of your car to see it! Grasslands, forests, and even glaciers can be explored in Rocky Mountain National Park. After a quick 2 hour drive from Denver, Colorado, you will know that coming to Rocky Mountain National Park is worthy of being a National Park.
On this day in 1863, Union troops capture Lookout Mountain southwest of Chattanooga, Tennessee,as they begin to break the Confederate siege of the city. In the “battle above the clouds,” the Yankees scaled the slopes of the mountain on the periphery of the Chattanooga lines.
The Mountain meadows massacre was a series of attacks on the Baker-Fancher emigrant wagon train, at Mountain meadows in southern utah. The attacks began on september 7 and culminated on September 11, 1857, resulting in the mass slaughter of the emigrant party by members of the Utah Territorial Militia from the Iron County district, together with some paiute native americans. The militia, officially called the Nauvoo, was composed of southern Utah's mormon settlers (members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints). Intending to leave no witnesses and thus prevent reprisals, the perpetrators killed all the adults and older children-about 120 men, women, and children in total. Seventeen children, all younger than seven were spared.
The Appalachian plateau is the smallest and northern most region in Georgia as well as being home to many superb physical features. Its abundance of natural beauty attracts visitors far and wide to the peach state. It showcases many natural attractions including, infamous Lookout Mountain, Sand Mountain, Cloudland Canyon State Park, Pigeon Mountain, and many more throughout the area stretching from Alabama to New York. The expanse has many natural resources consisting mostly of sedimentary rock-limestone, sandstone, and shale. It also contains resources such as ironstone and is the only known source of coal in Georgia. The Plateau is of great economic significance due to the many coalfields
Taking on a journey stretching well over 2,100 miles, covering fourteen states (from Maine to Georgia) by foot is no simple stroll where at the end of the day a comfortable bed and hot meal would await you. Instead, hiking the Appalachian Trail can be an endless battle with all the elements of mother nature: whereas in one state spring would have sprung already with wildflowers dressing the forest floors and insects buzzing through crisp air, on other parts of the trail it [the weather conditions] would be smothering heat, but meanwhile a few states north the rain would fall endlessly with gusts of cold wind, and snow would blanket the pathways of the trail and more than likely blizzards
The Desert Southwest is a very interesting place for non natives. It is a very hot place it can get up to 140 degrees which is normal for the deseret but an night it's a different story it can lower to about 30 degrees that is 2 degrees lower than freezing point. That is like a huge freezer and the sand can get cold under the about 4-5 inches it is also traditional to to speak their language apachean it was mostley spoken by the natives.
Have you ever been to Washington or Mt. Rainier? Mt. Rainier is a national park in Washington, where about 1-2 million people visit each year. Mt. Rainier is a Tall mountain that reaches up to 14,410 feet above sea level. It is one of the tallest places in all of Washington!
A region is an area that has common features. Las Vegas is in the State of Nevada and the North America continent. Nevada can be divided into 4 land regions: the Columbia Plateau, the Sierra Nevada, The Mojave desert, and the Basin and Range region. It is situated in a mountainous region that has massive semiarid grasslands and alkali deserts. It is in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern districts of the U.S. The large cities located in the basins are Reno and Carson. However, Elko, Elko, Fallon, and some other cities are located there. The Mojave Desert’s region includes Vegas, Henderson, and Boulder City. Its region type is a state.
Los Angeles has great places to go for snow. Bear Mountain is the most popular destination for snowboarders due to its multiple and ever-expanding terrain parks. Since snowboarding is hard for young people, you'll find young adults and teens dominate "the Scene," the name for the multiple bars, snack bars, restaurants and shops at the Bear Mountain base area. There are no mountaintop restaurants at Bear Mountain, so if you're looking for lunch on high, you'll have to go over to Snow Summit. There's also no night skiing.Snow Summit is the closest ski resort to Big Bear lake Village. It is more popular with skiers than snowboarders, with more long runs and fewer terrain features than its nearby neighbor,Bear Mountain. Its Family Park on the
Stone mountain has remained a very influential monument of Georgia; a gem of what may say to the state’s tourism and a landmark of American history throughout the ages. Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee , and Jefferson Davis on top of their valuable steeds represent the Confederate nation and its tie with Stone mountain as they are carved meticulously in the world’s largest exposed granite; however, the peaceful serenity of the lake and nature that envelops the mountain and its visitors remained a very important ceremonial location for native americans. The complete history of Stone Mountain is interwoven into the treads of historical events that have occurred throughout and even before the great nation , United States of America, was formed. Currently, it’s one of the most famous attractions in Georgia known for the breathtaking view of metropolitan Atlanta at the peak of the mountain. It is clear as rich as the beauty of stone mountain is,undeniably, it has a strong historical importance to American history and exquisite backround.
This is my research paper over the Smokey Mountains, which are located in Tennessee and part of North Carolina. One interesting fact about the Smokey Mountains is that it is the nation's busiest park, that draws more than nine million visitors a year, twice the number of any other national park. What most of the millions of people that visit usually see is the park from a mountain-skimming highway that, on a normal weekend day during the summer, draws over 50,000 people.
To me, Mount Wachusett Community College represents the ability for me to take on more challenging educational goals. College education is a privilege for me to have an opportunity to take advantage of means the future to me. Some may see it as the credits earned towards their 4-year college, but for me it means so much more than credits. It has provided me for an immense resource for learning and experimenting with topics I have an interest on. The professors are there to inspire me, helping me find my passion and myself. People will go out of their way to show you something and not in just a textbook, but in a real way. College has been introductions into how I can shape my future not just feel that my future solely belongs to my destiny. It is the first time in my life where I can have it my way and know that the work I have put in will be rewarding in fulfilling my future to come.
Rocky Hill, CT is a beautiful area with around 20,000 inhabitants. It is situated just south of Wethersfield and is easy to commute to Hartford. For the most part, those living in Rocky Hill, CT tend to commute to work in the larger cities nearby.
Sadie and Carter's uncle, Amos, steps in and brings the kids to New York, revealing that they come from a line of ancient Egyptian magicians and need to be brought up to speed. Amos disappears while gathering info on Set's evil schemes, and Set's minions attack the kids and Amos's baboon sidekick Khufu. The cat goddess Bast comes to their rescue and carts the kids around until Zia, a teenaged magician from the House of Life, brings Carter and Sadie to the magicians' headquarters in Egypt.
Over 10 years ago, a strange discovery was made. Way back in 1991 some hikers were hiking in the Otztal Alps; a mountain range on the border of Italy and Austria. They found a body and assumed that it was from another hiker but it wasn’t. Since they had special tools, they decided to investigate and dig out the body and along with the body came other interesting objects. The hikers found a copper axe, a flint-tipped dagger, a little fire-starting kit, and a birchbark container holding embers wrapped in maple leaves.