Earth Hour is an annual international event created by the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) , held on the last Saturday of March, that asks households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change . Based on an idea successfully executed in Thailand in 2005, it was pioneered by WWF Australia and the Sydney Morning Hearld in 2007 and achieved worldwide participation in 2008. Earth Hour will next take place on Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 8:30 pm, local time. All’s set for Earth Hour on March ...
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By: Marlene Affeld World's Largest Gold Nugget! Gold nuggets are naturally occurring pieces of native gold. Water and erosion concentrate the deposit of nuggets which are recovered by placer or lode mining methods. Nuggets are also often found in residual deposits where gold-bearing veins or lodes have decayed. Today nuggets can also be found in the tailing piles of previous mining operations, especially the tailings of old dredging operations. Nuggets are never totally pure or 24K in composition. Most nuggets are about 20 to 22K or 83 - 92 percent pure. Nuggets are noted for their purity by their “fineness”. As an example “865 ...
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Happy Earth Day people! The other day, since they no longer make quality programs like Seinfeld and the Cosby Show, and network TV is filled with terrible shows like American Idol, Dancing Shows , and the god awful Deal or No Deal … (I hate deal or no deal… seriously people, it is a random guessing game, no skill required, why are contestants so cheery? guy from Bobby’s World = not funny, jeopardy = money, Deal or No deal = hurting) I now have grown quite fond of the History Channel and Discovery channel. The best shows are on these channels, like Survivorman, Man ...
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I am fascinated by pictographs and petroglyphs. Are they 10,000 year old graffiti or a sacred magical symbolic code, a treasure map, a historian’s guide book in storied stone? In 1806, while on their historic journey across Montana, the Lewis and Clark Expedition encountered several signs of the first inhabitants of this great land. Pictographs and petroglyphs were inscribed on rock faces by the tribes that lived in this area as well as nomadic tribes that followed the bison herds across the Great Plains. From Clark’s Journal “. . .on the face of this rock the figures of animals”. To an archaeologist there is ...
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By: Marlene Affeld Montana is a paleontologist’s paradise and famous worldwide for its wealth of dinosaur fossils. Scientists, consumed with a passion to understand the history of life on earth, have discovered over seventy-five different species of dinosaurs in Montana. More dinosaurs have been discovered in Montana than in any other state in the Union. New discoveries continue. In 2004, an entirely new species from the Jurassic period, named Suuwassea emilieae was found. The new discovery was a 50-foot-long (15-meter-long) sauropod. Sauropods were plant-eating dinosaurs with long necks, whiplike tails, tiny little heads, small beady eyes, short stubby legs and huge fat bellies. This latest discovery was ...
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