England covers over 50,000 square miles (130 439 square kilometres) and is the largest of the countries comprising the island of Britain, covering about two-thirds of the island. No place in England is more than 75 miles (120 km) from the sea. The landscape is determined mainly by the different types of rock underlying it. In the south, chalk has produced the gently rolling hills of the Downs, while hard granite is the basis for the mountains of the north and the
Monument 1 was found in the city of La Ventain in the year of 1945; this colossal head was 7.9 feet in height and weighed about 24 tons. Exactly seventeen Olmec Colossal Heads have been discovered: ten at San Lorenzo, four at La Venta, two at Tres Zapotes and one at La Cobata. Six of the basalt heads weighs up to forty tons. Because La Venta was believed to be a city in the middle of a swap, The Olmecs had to travel more than fifty miles to collect the large stones. Exactly how they moved the rocks are unknown.
| 4. | Ryan has three times as many stamps as Hal and twice as many stamps as Jimmy. If they have 220 stamps altogether, how many more stamps does Jimmy have than Hal? | 5. | Lucy and Jean have 240 stickers altogether.
Cleveland became a bustling city. Throughout the 1800s and mid 1900s companies made changes to the river in order to best suit their business. They lined the last four miles with steel bulkheads making it more like a bathtub then a river. They built many bridges throughout Cleveland and upstream they put in dams which held back flow. The 19th century brought the industrial evolution and Cleveland just happened to be the center of the evolution.
A vertical stick casts a shadow 0.6 m long. If the stick is 1.2 m high, how high is the tower? (draw a diagram and solve) 7. Triangles IJK and TUV are similar. The length of the sides of IJK are 40, 50, and 24.
Elisa Rivera ENG102 Descriptive Essay- Visual Art Dr. Boros May 1st, 2009 Sears Tower Contributing to the dynamic Chicago Skyline, the Sears Tower in Chicago, Illinois is known as the world’s third tallest building. It is known for its contemporary 110 stories high to a height of 1,450 ft. The highest occupied floor stands 1,431 ft above ground. It also features a 160-car parking garage, broadcast platform, the tallest skydeck, conference center and fitness facility. Designed by architect Bruce Graham and the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in 1973, the Sears Tower is structured by attracting square tubes of welded steel.
It contains around 1,300,000 blocks ranging in weight from 2.5 tons to 15 tons and is built on a square base with sides measuring about 230m (775 ft.) covering 13 acreas! Today it is only 137m (455 ft.) high, the 9m (30 ft.) that is missing is due to the theft of the fine quality limestone covering or casing stones, by the Ottoman Turks in the 15 century A.D. to build houses and Mosques in Cairo.
The area of the kite is 150 square inches. Find the length of BD . 31. Find the area of parallelogram EFGH. 12 10 32.
Chicago, the windy city, is one of the largest cities in the Midwest. It is an old city and holds history back to 1833. It was made the transportation hub for all its roads, rail, water, and later air connections. The Sears tower was the tallest building in 1970 reaching its height 1451 feet. Labor unions, industry, commerce, immigration, and politics helped build this city.
This building or architecture is called the Crystal Cathedral. The Crystal Cathedral is comprised of a main church and a bell tower. The cathedral was created with 10,000 windows of tempered silver-colored glasses which are held in place by a lace-like frame of white steel trusses (Crystal, 2011). The cathedral can hold more than 2700 people. The bell tower was built in 1990 and stands 236 feet tall and is one of Orange County's tallest structures (Crystal, 2011).