El Captain is Spanish for “The Captain.” It was named in the Mariposa Battalion. (Summit Post) El Captain is one of the most famous rocks known, since the natural Firefall happens on the east side of the rock. (National Park Service) El Capitan is
At 71 m high, it is the largest Buddha in the world. Mount Emei is also notable for its exceptionally diverse vegetation, ranging from subtropical to subalpine pine forests. Some of the trees there are more than 1,000 years old. Other Languages: English French Arabic Chinese Russian Spanish © UNESCO Outstanding Universal Value Brief synthesis Mount Emei (Emeishan) is an area of exceptional cultural significance as it is the place where Buddhism first became established on Chinese territory and from where it spread widely through the East. The first Buddhist temple in China was built on the summit of Mount Emei in the 1st century CE.
Greek Architecture Greek architecture is the most recognized architecture in the world. It’s easily distinguished due to the highly formalized features. The Greeks were able to develop very advanced structures using posts and lintels, columns, and masonry. The most well-known Greek structures are their temples and also their theatres. Throughout the course of this paper, I will discuss these specific structural elements along with the main structures constructed by the Greeks.
Wars were put on hold in surrounding cities and towns so the Greeks could travel to and from Olympia in peace. The winner received nothing more than a kotinos, a wreath of olive branches worn as a crown. The only participants of the games were freed men of Greek nationality, and only men and unmarried women were allowed to attend and watch the games. The first Olympic Games were held in the nude, athletes did not wear clothing. The first winner of the games, Coroebus, was merely a humble baker from the Greek city-state of Elis, showing that the winners did not have to professional athletes.
Zues conviced his brother Hades to create a creature so powerful that it could deafeat the titans. So Hades created a creature called Kraken from his own flesh and blood and it was so powerful that it defeated the titans and end their rule in the world. The titans are supposed to be locked in the underworld inside the tartarus gates. The are also some dreadful and some fascinating creatures in the greek mytholgy and are considerably used in greek mythology movies.Hydra a creature whose head grows back if cut, the manatour a monster with a head of a bull and a man's body, ipotane a race of half horces and half humans. There are also many more creatures like- Ceberus, Medusa, Harpies, Chiron, Sphinx, Orthrus and so on.
The Eiffel Tower was once the tallest building in the world. 19th Century European architecture is a widely covered subject because there were so many magnificent buildings constructed. The most well-known structure built was LA TOUR EIFFEL or better known as The Eiffel Tower. The design was done by Gustave Alexandre Eiffel. He was a successful bridge engineer.
Beowulf’s goodness is described in his battle against evil, symbolized by Grendel, one of the monsters defeated by him. The epic shows conflict between good and evil. In the beginning of the epic poem Grendel, who represents evil, is introduced. He is a giant man eating demonic monster. Grendel lives in the darkness and appears from the shadowy marshes in the darkness every night to kill.
When Peruses arrives in Larissa, he participates in some funeral games and accidentally strikes Acrisius on the head with a discus, killing him and fulfilling the prophecy.”(In the book pg154). King Acrisius of Argos imprisons his daughter Danae, Jealous of her beauty. When the god Zeus impregnates her, Acrisius sends his daughter and his newborn grandson Peruses to sea in a wooden coffin. In retribution, Zeus kills Acrisius and orders Poseidon to release the last of the Titans, a gigantic sea monster called the Kraken, (clash of the titans 1981). After Peruses sets out to get medusa as a prize no other human being has in the original myth, and to kill the Kraken in the movie.
These trees have huge branches and receive the most sunlight, rain and the highest temperatures. The majority of the trees in rainforests are evergreens with branches reaching out at the top, creating a shade of leaves, which blocks the sunlight from reaching the layers underneath. The crowns of those trees support a variety of aerial plants, which use the tree branches for support. The
It begins with a challenge for the hero, then an adventure for him, followed by a trip into some form of underworld, and ending with the dramatic and heroic death of the hero. Beowulf follows these guidelines perfectly. The story begins with a call for a hero to kill the pestly beast Grendel, which Beowulf responds to and executes perfectly. Then for the trip into the underworld, Beowulf swims to the bottom of the bottomless pit to face Grendel’s mother, the Troll-Wife. He kills the Troll-Wife, and is called to another problem: He must slay a dragon that seeks to kill the stealer of one of his treasures.