Archive: May 2019 (2 Posts)

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Arlington National Cemetery: Where Every Day We Remember

May 24, 2019

To visit Arlington National Cemetery is to know these United States more deeply. It is a place of remembrance and a microcosm of American history. Beneath the shade of firs, maples, oaks and many other trees, the necropolis gently sprawls across 624 acres. The site is in Arlington, Virginia, just across the Potomac River from …

Posted in: American History, Military History

Brown, red, and yellow tinted map illustration of the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, with a circular frame around them

Extremities of the Earth: Largest Active Volcano

May 10, 2019

Posted by: Julie Stoner

Spewing lava and gas from deep within the earth, volcanoes are one of nature’s most explosive natural features. Thousands of volcanoes dot the planet but only about 1,500 are considered active, meaning they have erupted at some point in the last 10,000 years. The largest of these active volcanoes in both mass and volume is …

Posted in: Exploration, Physical Geography, Series: Extremities of the Earth

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