Unsolved Mysteries: Easter Island Approximately 1200 years ago the Rapa Nui, or Easter Island people, arrived at one of the most isolated islands in the world. Almost as soon as they arrived they began carving massive stone heads without a known explanation ("Mysterious Places: Explore Easter Island in Words and Pictures."). When the Europeans arrived, there were very few people and almost no resources. However, there were numerous amounts of giant stone carvings. Nobody really knows why they are
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Easter Island By Graham Boldman Easter Island- one of the most isolated places in the world. In the southeastern Pacific ocean, this Polynesian island is home to its iconic 887 moai statues. If you go to the island today, you will see that there are not very many trees-and it may seem like it would be impossible to live on the island. The ancient Easter Islanders, the Rapa Nui people actually lived here for hundreds of years, and some still do. Although the population has greatly decreased and the
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EASTER ISLAND Stony sentry’s, carved years ago by Polynesian craftsmen, gaze over one of the most remote places in the world. With their land enlarged by overuse, islanders now draw on a revival of their culture to attract visitors. I intend to tell about this small island off the coast of Chile named Easter Island. Easter Island, submerged volcanic mountain range in the eastern Pacific Ocean, is located 500 miles South of the Tropic of Capricorn, and 2,200 miles West of Chile. This area
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The mystery of Easter Island has puzzled humanity for years. Easter Island is the world’s most remote inhabited island (“The Mystery of Easter Island”), but a group of people managed to sail there and establish a society that created about 900 stone statues across the island ("Easter Island -- World Heritage Site -- National Geographic”). Over the years, scientists have discovered many facts about the people of Easter Island and their achievements, and have been able to create several plausible
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Unsolved Mysteries: Easter Island In 1722 the first European that we know of found Easter Island and its people. The ancient people of the island where carving these great statues called “moai”. No one is sure how they moved these statues around the island and why they did exactly ( the History). We are aware of some facts about the moai, but the theories about why they where built and how they where moved are still remain uncertain. 1.) Facts The statues, the moai, found on Easter Island are some of
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main characters are historical people and unknown kings of Mayan cities or Easter Island villages. Jared Diamond tells the story of the Viking explorer Erik the Red, who discovered Greeland and Vinland (Terranova, in Canada). Another character is captain Olafsson, a norse sailor who wrote the last news about Greenland in 1410. Another main character is Christopher Columbus, who arrived at Hispaniola in 1492, but now this island is two countries, the Dominican Republic and the Haiti. Diamond studied
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succeed/Jared Diamond. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-670-03337-5 1. Social history—Case studies. 2. Social change—Case studies. 3. Environmental policy— Case studies. I. Title. HN13. D5 2005 304.2'8—dc22 2004057152 This book is printed on acid-free paper. 8 Printed in the United States of America Set in Minion Designed by Francesca Belanger Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted
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EVOLUTION AND SELF-INTEREST Richard Dawkins argues that at its most fundamental level, the genetic level, life is self-interested.1 Genes do only one thing; they replicate themselves. These replicators reside in and are carried around by biological vehicles (trees, animals, humans, fungus, etc.). The resources that support these biological vehicles are finite, so the process of life has become a competition among genes to create vehicles that can successfully compete for limited resources and survive
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Madagascar Rainforest Madagascar, located approximately 400 kilometers east of Africa is the world's fourth largest island. Because of its isolation it is occupied by some of the most unusual and rare species of plants and animals on earth. Madagascar was at one time formerly an independent kingdom; became a French colony in 1896 and regained independence in 1960. During 1992-93, free presidential and National Assembly elections were held ending 17 years of single-party rule(Science 1990). The
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1 ESSAYS ON SUSTAINABILITY Thirteen Challenging Essays for Earthlings By Peter E. Black, 2008 Wheels and Water .......................................................page 1 Water and Humans on Planet Earth ................................... 2 Climate, Weather, and Global Warming ............................. 3 A Catastrophic Loss of Species ......................................... 4 The Naked Truth................................................................... 5 Asymmetrical Resource Distribution
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