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essentially the place where everything in D.C. is located. It is the perfect starting point for some of the most famous museums and monuments in the city. The mall itself is a long strip of grassy park and pond area, which stretches from the Capitol building in the east, to the Lincoln Memorial in the west. There are plenty of pathways to walk down as you make your way along the Mall,

If a current is flowing, self-inductance tends to keep it from building up. Henry found that self-inductance is greatly affected by the configuration of the circuit, especially the coiling of the wire. He also discovered how to make non-inductive windings by folding the wire back on itself.      At

The next move for the brothers was building a wind tunnel and developing model-testing techniques that included a balance to more accurately determine the lift and drag of their aircraft. Orville and Wilbur tested over two hundred different wings and airfoil models to improve the performance

32 Coolest East Coast Historic Landmarks You Need to Visit African American Civil War Memorial in Washington, DC This war memorial serves as a monument for over 200,000 African Americans who fought during the American Civil War. The museum displays items such as newspaper articles, portraits, videos, uniforms and weapons that were used during the war. The memorial is open 24 hours a day; from Monday to Saturday. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in Washington, D.C This memorial commemorates

earth.” Volcanic soils are very fertile and can help plants grow very fast with the nutrients in the soil. Volcanos are very good for the land maybe, after a couple thousand years, but sometimes the beauty of the nature is destroyed by the ongoing building on our world. There is a mountain in Hawaii that has one of the most perfectly kept amount of land that is been kept the way it was since it

during the year (Institution and Smithsonian). Lots of the Inuit culture is about them giving respect to the animals they kill and they use every part of that animal. The Inuit would hunt animals like bison, whales, fish, and arctic bears. The Inuit people have mastered the skills of survival in the arctic region. They use many tools in order to hunt. They use spears for catching whales and they hunt in groups on land. Over the years they have improved their ways of hunting and building their

The Roman Republic reassured the control of a wide territory by building an extensive road system that allowed the central government to move legions and resources relatively quickly between the different areas and to open a link between Rome and the peripheral regions. In addition, the road system favored the expansion

Wanting to reach the sky, have the wind in your face, while getting pelted with bugs. The history of the first american flight tells the struggles and the success of the Wright brothers had making history without knowing it, spreading their wings across the world. Before the Wright brothers took to the air in their powered airplane, the only means of air transportation was the hot air balloon. The first human flight in a balloon took place in Paris, France, in 1783. Ballooning became a favorite pastime

the year after World War II ended. His parents were Holocaust survivors, but living in postwar Eastern Europe they found that the formal end of the Holocaust did not bring an end to Anti-Semitism violence. As Libeskind told Stanley Meisler of the Smithsonian, “Anti-Semitism is the only memory I still have of Poland. In school. On the streets. It wasn 't what most people think happened after the war was over. It was horrible.” As a child, his parents wanted him to learn an instrument but felt that bringing

Wallace and His Modern Biogeographical Legacy” was presented by Lynne R. Parenti, Ph.D, on April 17,2015. Dr. Parenti presented in University of Hawaii at Manoa’s BioMed building in Room B-103 at 3:30 to 4:30 pm. Dr. Lynne Parenti is a curator of museum fishes at the National Museum of Natural History in the Smithsonian Institution. I chose to attend this presentation because the field of biogeography seemed interesting as well as the history of biogeography. Although many know that Darwin proposed