hired him as his valet for his journeys. After many decades, they had explored the Arctic for two long decades and on April 6, 1909, Henson, Edwin, and the rest of their crew had arrived to the North Pole, being the first ones said to reach the North Pole. To us nowadays, arriving to the North Pole is merely small accomplishment, but for the past, it was a great one. It took so many attempts to reach the place and many gave up, thinking it was impossible. This is why I chose Henson. Even though he
Did you ever wonder what these scary looking figures were that was on totem poles? Totem poles were initiated from the Northwest Indian tribes. They are “built” using symbolic objects from Elements of Nature, Colors, and Geometrical shapes that represent stories, myths, and/or an important event. I chose seven items that share the same qualities as me. To elaborate, I picked a unicorn, monkey, elephant, lotus, dolphin, dog and the color blue because they represent my story. The first item
fact be closely approximated by a magnetic dipole at its centre, tilted by 11˚ to the Earth’s rotational axis, Figure 1.2. The south pole of this magnetic dipole actually points northwards such that the north pole on a compass will point towards northwards, and more precisely, to the Earth’s magnetic north pole. The magnetic field strength decreases from the poles towards the equator. Currently the field is 56 µT at the magnetic north
goal anyway. (Collins & Porras, 1996, p. 10).” In 1907, in pursuit of victory in the formidable race to the South Pole, Shackleton and his crew set off unified in their goal. Two years later they returned home unsuccessful in their endeavor. In May of 1912, Shackleton received news that Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team had become the first expedition to reach the South Pole (Koehn, 2013, 2010, p. 5). The race was over, and a winner declared. Shackleton missed out on his opportunity to
most stressful situations with calmness and change his plans as per the situations has rendered him to become a subject for many research studies throughout the world. In his expedition during 1906, to the South Pole, he single handedly man hauled a sledge to within 97 miles of the South Pole. Later he lead a crew of 27 men safely to home in one of the most notorious weather conditions for a duration of over 2 years simply exemplify his stature. Introduction: Sir Ernest
There are 4 significant tribes who border each other in the area that despise one another. The first tribe in the north is the Chief Suquamish with the tribe of earth. The second tribe in the south is the Chief Nayeli with the tribe of water. The third tribe in the west is the Chief Quidel with the tribe of fire. And the fourth tribe in the east is the Chief Kaska with the tribe of air. While they are enemies and at war with each other, the Goddess decides peace should be made. In the tribe of air
Many ancient civilizations had their own beliefs about the stars and the universe. Some examples of these intelligent civilizations were the Ancient Babylonians, Middle Eastern civilizations, Central American civilizations, Ancient Chinese, and the Ancient Greeks. The Ancient Babylonians studied patterns on Venus which were later continued by Galileo and Copernicus. People from the Middle East, Central America, and China watched the skies and made many observations and predictions of movement in
Roald Amundsen is known as one of the most successful arctic explorers, having been the first person to lead expeditions that reached the North and South Pole. Roald was born on July 16th, 1872, near Oslo, Norway. He was the 4th son born to his parents Hanna Sahlqvist and jens Amundsen. Roald had promised his mom to become a doctor and began studying medicine when he was 15, but dropped out at age 21 when his mother died. He then began his journey at sea. He was successful since the beginning, as
Thanksgiving of 2008. The eight inch, red suited, stuffed elf spied on our every move. Once we would fall asleep, Buddy would use his magic to fly back to the North Pole to report our behavior to Santa. The elf came with one strict rule though, if he was ever touched by a human hand he would lose all magic and not be able to venture back to the North Pole. Therefore, nobody touched Buddy and everyone enjoyed his presence in the household. There was one exception though, my sister, Liz. The elf creeped her
On Christmas eve the elves were all wrapping presents and Santa was looking over all the bad kids and good kids, also his son mike was watching the elves. They were pretty busy because Santa was behind on Christmas chores. When all of a sudden . . . The Alarm goes of in the present area. Quickly Santa calls Mike to get down to the Present area. Santa and Mike find that they have some bad elves. The elves commanded Santa to give them the secret password to get into the secret door, but Santa