The commander led his men. They laid siege to the fort. They kept watch, round the clock. None could get away from the fort.“The defenders need food and water. They may have some food and water in stock. But that won’t last long. The fort will fall soon,” said the commander to his close associates.The […]
Hawaii is at the top of a volcanic mountain in the Pacific Ocean. More than half the mountain is below water. The largest range of mountains is in the Atlantic Ocean.
Mountains are home to approximately one-tenth of the world’s people. More than half of the world’s freshwater originates in mountains, and all the world’s major rivers are fed from mountain sources.
The ocean floor is made up of various landscapes including mountains, valleys, and plains. These underwater surfaces of the ocean floor are located from the shallowest part of the ocean to its deepest part.
Wilson Alwyn Bentley lived all his life, from 1856 to 1931, on a farm in Jericho, Vermont, where an average of 120 inches of snow falls each winter. Wilson liked snow so much that he spent his whole life studying it, and because of this, everyone in Jericho called him Snowflake Bentley. His mother managed
Every morning, James Marshall, who lived and built sawmills in the Mexican territory known as California, walked along the millrace and studied the wheel of the sawmill he had constructed. He wanted to be able to tell the mill’s owner, John Sutter, when the water in the race was deep and swift enough to turn