Articles for tag: Acropolis, Mesoamerica, Sphinx

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Visiting Ancient Monuments with Google Earth

Getting Google Earth In order to start visiting ancient monuments of the world with Google Earth, you will first need Google Earth installed on your computer. If you don’t currently have it, it is easy to acquire. First go to the Google Earth homepage, found at http://earth.google.com. Click on the Downloads link on the left ...

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Purrrrrfectly Unusual Cat Breeds

Cats are some of the most loved pets in the world. With more than 90 million cats being owned by households throughout the world, it is no hidden secret they are one of the most popular choices. Cat breed choices for houses are generally the same with a few exceptions for the true cat lover ...

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William Butler Yeats’ the Second Coming

William Butler Yeats: great Irish nationalist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, and author of great poetry, plays, and prose. Yeats was deeply into occultism and mysticism, and was also active politically in Ireland. His failed love life and depressing environment led to his pessimistic works. One of Yeats’ greatest works, “The ...

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Analysis of W.B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming”

W.B. Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming” was written in 1919, just one year after WWI ended. The beginning of this poem reflects on how evil has taken over the minds of good Christians, and the world has turned into chaos. It is apparent that Yeats believes that a Second Coming is at hand, and he ...

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How Old Is the Sphinx?

The Great Sphinx of Giza is one of the most recognizable man-made objects in the world. Despite this, it is also one of the most mysterious man-made objects in the world. Even if you accept the general consensus of who built the Sphinx, when and why, you are still left with many questions that have ...