National Geographic: Secret Yosemite National Geographic: Secret Yosemite is a documentary that delves into the magical Yosemite National Park in Northern California. The park is known for its spectacular granite cliffs, breathtaking waterfalls, and majestic Giant Sequoia trees. El Capitan and Half Dome are among its most famous and widely know cliffs. Yosemite Falls, one of the highlights of the national park is thirteen times higher than that of the Niagara Falls. The tremendous Sequoia trees are as high as a 30-story building and wider than most city streets.
The pyramid of khufu stands 481 feet high, measures roughly 756 feet on each side and cover 13 acres of land it is the largest of ancient Egypt's 70 pyramids, if the blocks that form the pyramid were reduced to foot-sized square cubes and lined up, the cubs would stretch for 16,600 miles. originally the great pyramid was covered by casing stones that formed a smooth outer surface, consists of more than 2.3 million limestone blocks the largest granite stones in the pyramid found in the king's chamber weight 25 to 80 tonnes and were transported more than 500 miles away from aswan, two types of limestone were used for construction, A soft limestone either pure or nummulitic was used for the bulk of the core blocks and a hard white limestone for the mantle. The four faces of the pyramid are slightly concave, and it is the only pyramid to have been built this way. Contemporary experiments have demonstrated that the copper chisels and stone hammers used by workers were sufficient to chip away at limestone, Tests have determined that 2.5-ton limestone blocks can be transported a fair distance in a
Ida Tarbell Ida Tarbell was born in 1857, only two years before the birth of the oil industry; key event that would later have a major impact in Ida’s label of Muckraker. At the age of three; her father, Franklin Tarbell, moved his family to a small oil town in Rouseville. There, Ida spent her childhood attending Mrs. Rice’s home school and playing amongst the oil derricks. In the article "Pioneer Women of the Oil Industry," written in 1934, Ida speaks of the problems her mother and many other women had civilizing the oil towns. Around the year 1870 the Tarbells moved to Titusville; where a church and school were already established.
Chandeliers Chandeliers Describe in 500-1000 words how the object relates to history. The word chandelier means candle holder and it comes from the word ‘Chandelle’ which is the French word for candle. It is an object that is applied to a light fixture that is suspended from the ceiling. They usually have branch supports and two or more candle holders or more modern ones having electric lighting. Chandeliers are also the most traditional of all lighting fixtures and the earliest of which dates back over 1000 years.
The earliest and greatest of the pyramids at Giza is Khufu’s pyramid, which stands 479 feet high and has a base of 755 square feet. It took 2.3 million stone blocks to construct Khufu’s Pyramid, and each block weighed between 2 and 5 tons each (Sayre, 2011, pp.73). That’s 4.5 – 11.5 million tons of stone! That would be an impressive feat even with modern man’s machinery, so how did the ancient Egyptians accomplish such an enormous configuration? That question remains unanswered to this day, but there are many theories and speculations.
Architectural Characteristics of the Forbidden City The Forbidden City, imperial palaces in Ming (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasties (1644-1911), is famous not only because of the palaces themselves, but also its architecture style. It stands for the culmination of the development of classical Chinese and East Asian architecture and influences the development of Chinese architecture. The largest surviving wooden structure in China is surrounded by 7.9 meters (26 feet) high walls and 3,800 meters (2.4 miles) long moat. Containing more than 9,000 rooms, it covers 72 thousand square meters (178 acre). Four gates on four directions are the Meridian Gate on the south, the Gate of Devine Might on the north and two other Glorious Gates on west and east.
Later, the steps were filled in with stone and the top was made into a point. This pyramid design with the smooth sloped sides and the pointy top is called the bent pyramid. Pyramids were huge structures. The Great Pyramid at Giza is the largest pyramid ever built and measures about 450 feet high and nearly 800 feet long. It was considered to be the tallest building in the world until the Eiffel Tower was built.
Not since the Roman perfection of concrete construction had building technology so radicalized structural possibilities. Designed to house the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations of 1851, the Crystal Palace took its place among the largest structures ever built, longer than the Palace of Versailles and as tall as a Gothic cathedral. The construction of the Crystal Palace for the 1851 International Exhibition in London, resoundingly demonstrated the virtues of industrial technologies, bringing a new level of efficiency to the question of utility in architecture. It embodied the utilitarian spirit of modern industry, built without masonry, almost exclusively of standardized components of iron and glass. The enormous frame was set into limestone footings and followed a 24'-0" x 24'-0" structural bay, which determined the layout of the 13,000 exhibition spaces.
The current building was designed by famous architect Sir Cristopher Wren, like much of historical London. It was consecrated in 1708, but all construction works finished in 1710 The dome reaches a height of 111 meter (366 ft) and weights about 66,000 ton. Eight arches support the dome. On top of the dome is a large lantern with a weight of 850 ton. The first gallery, the Whispering Gallery, just inside the dome, is renowned for its acoustics.
India is the world’s premier center for diamond cutting and polishing. Nine out of every 10 stones sold in the world pass through India. India has the highest number of annual bulk drugs filings (77) with USFDA. Indians are the richest immigrant class in the US, with nearly 200,000 millionaires. India is ranked the sixth country in the world in terms of satellite launches.