#Mount McKinley

[illustratus]

Storm Clouds, Mt. McKinley by Sydney Laurence

#sydney mortimer laurence #sydney laurence #art #storm clouds #mt. mckinley #mount mckinley #alaska #north america #romantic #view #landscape #mountain #mountains #clouds

[mapsontheweb]

Mount Denali, Alaska, the highest mountain in U.S with 6190 m.

by @725Hemeed

#maps #twittersourced #725Hemeed #denali #mount mckinley #alaska #relief #mountains

[thorsenmark]

Denali National Park...Providing Mountain Viewing Experiences for a Few Million Years! by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: This was one of the first views that I had of Wonder Lake along the namesake trail from the North Face Lodge area. I had just come through a saddle between two hilltops and had this open plain in front of me with it's amazing view. That is what I was attempting to capture with this image in angling my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward and bring out a sweeping view across the tundra to my front with its vibrant colors of red, orange and yellows. The eyes would definitely be drawn to the waters of the lake and take in the wonder of the snowcapped peaks of Denali and the Alaska Range.

#Alaska 2019 #Alaska Range #Alaska-Yukon Ranges #Azimuth 182 #Blue Skies #Blues Skies with Clouds #Canvas #Day 10 #Day Hiking in Denali #Denali #Denali National Park #Denali National Park & Preserve #Denali National Park and Preserve #DxO PhotoLab 3 Edited #Evergreen Trees #Evergreens #Hillside of Trees #Image Capture With Arsenal #Lake #Landscape #Landscape - Scenery #Looking South #Mount McKinley #Mountain Peak #Mountains #Mountains in Distance #Mountains off in Distance #Mountainside #Nature #Nikon D800E

[simplicius-simplicissimus]

Alaska - Denali National Park

Comment: Denali (former Mount McKinley - 6190m high) is s huge mountain if you stand in front of it! It appears bigger than Mount Everest (8849m high) which is already on a high plateau (Himalaya - over 5100m above sea level). Denali is only on a plateau of 600m - which means you really look at a 5600m high and big piece of rock.

#traveling #reisen #usa #alaska #denali national park #denali #mount mckinley #tundra #dall sheep #grizzly bear #wonder lake #eielson visitor center

[juliehowlin]

Denali

On this date in 2015 Denali, the highest mountain peak in North America, officially regained its original Alaska Native name through an executive order issued by American President Barack Obama. 10 things you might not know about the mountain formerly known as Mount McKinley.

#facts #denali #mount McKinley #usa #alaska #mountains

[landscapeshub]

Denali, Alaska, USA

© Jesse Cox

#usa #alaska #denali #mount mckinley

[dalesramblingsblog]

Everybody say "Thank you Deep Space Nine Season 5, Episode 9: The Ascent for teaching me that Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States."

(Also, in a roundabout way, for making me learn that the Secret Service weren't even assigned to protect the President until the aftermath of McKinley's assassination in 1901, and before then were assigned to combat the counterfeiting of coins. In a tragic twist of irony, they were also set up by Abraham Lincoln just hours before he got shot. Damn, if only he'd had the Secret Service...)

#star trek #star trek ds9 #s5e09: the ascent #secret service #us politics #mount whitney #william mckinley #abraham lincoln

[beartrice-inn-unnir]

👋 for the book reader asks: 3, 7, and 12?

3. What’s something you read recently and wanted to argue with (either with the book or the author or the fans)?

Maybe the Library at Mount Char - I liked it a lot, but I have a whole collection of books I call “Books about Libraries that are really Private Archives”. LaMC is only the most recent addition that I’ve read.

And it’s true, for a long long time up to the very recent past, libraries were usually private collections of resources which were only available to small affiliated groups. The Public Library is recent idea and the huge swathe of public social services the average (American) Public Library provides shouldn’t fall entirely on this one underfunded organization that can have insufficient training in social work etc. See this excellent Vocational Awe article for more info.

But I still want to read a book with a magical library that’s open to the public, that provides services and educational events, that supports its community, but isn’t hard to find. I really love a lot of these magical private library books, but the ubiquity of access is really important to the modern library (in some places anyway), and I’d love to read something that shows that someday.

5. What book do you love but usually not recommend because it’s weird or intense, etc?

I utterly adore Katherine Addison’s The Witness for the Dead, but it’s so hard to describe (and, as a result, to recommend) - the setting is so lush and the characters are such a product of their setting and life-experiences. It’s a non-violent crime novel. It’s very religious and spiritual. There might be werewolves. There are murderous ghouls. There’s opera and air-ships. It’s a detective novel. It’s a political thriller. It’s slow-moving and deeply kind. The protagonist is having a very long week. It’s only 232 pages long.

12. What book have you re-read most often?

I pick up Connie Willis’s To Say Nothing of the Dog whenever I need a break from other things in life, so probably every few months on the outside 😹 I love that if I ever don’t understand what’s happening, the protagonist understands even less than I do. He’s overtired and overworked, and it’s made him into a soppy romantic who keeps mishearing people but is too polite to ask for clarification. I relate.

Robin McKinley’s The Blue Sword and Tamora Piece’s In The Hand of the Goddess are two other comfort rereads that I have as audiobooks, so they probably are the stories I’ve read/heard the most often by sheer numbers.

#reader asks #the library at mount char #Scott Hawkins #books about libraries #the witness for the dead #katherine addison #to say nothing of the dog #connie willis #the blue sword #robin mckinley #in the hands of the goddess #tamora pierce

[rabbitcruiser]

U.S. President died after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and was succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt on September 14, 1901.

#William McKinley #died #death #anniversary #travel #original photography #vacation #tourist attraction #landmark #Theodore Roosevelt #US President #14 September 1901 #Mount Rushmore National Memorial #controversial monument #Abraham Lincoln #Thomas Jefferson #George Washington #Teddy Roosevelt #South Dakota #Gutzon Borglum #Black Hills #landscape #countryside #USA #summer 2019

[psikonauti]

Sydney Laurence (American,1865-1940)

Mount McKinley, Alaska, 1922

oil on canvas

#Sydney Laurence #Sydney Mortimer Laurence #upl #art #painting

[speakingofdoorknobs]

Continuing to call it Twitter instead of "X" not in the sense of deadnaming it, but in the sense of using the name Denali instead of "Mount McKinley"

#the twitter trashfire continues #fuck elon musk #the human equivalent of Flintheart Glomgold

[joeinct]

Teklanika River, Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska, Photo by Ansel Adams, 1947

#ansel adams

[mapsontheweb]

Mount McKinley, Bradford Washburn, 1961

#maps #mount mckinley #1961

[thorsenmark]

Itineraries in Exploring Denali National Park & Preserve by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A view looking to the south while walking the Wonder Lake Trail while taking in an amazing setting with Denali and other snowcapped peaks of the Alaska Range. I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation while playing around as I learned how to work with DxO PhotoLab 3 that I’d recently purchased after moving away from Capture NX2.

#Alaska 2019 #Alaska Range #Alaska-Yukon Ranges #Azimuth 182 #Blue Skies #Blue Skies with Clouds #Cloud Wisps #Day 10 #Day Hiking in Denali #Denali #Denali National Park #Denali National Park & Preserve #Denali National Park and Preserve #DxO PhotoLab 3 Edited #Evergreen Trees #Evergreens #Hillside of Trees #Image Capture With Arsenal #Landscape #Landscape - Scenery #Looking South #Mount McKinley #Mountain Peak #Mountains #Mountains in Distance #Mountains off in Distance #Mountainside #Nature #Nikon D800E #No People

[blueiskewl]

1,500-year-Old Anglo-Saxon Cemetery Found in UK

One of the most notable discoveries was the burial of a teenage girl and child.

Archaeologists in the United Kingdom have announced a major historical discovery dating back to as early as the 6th century after finding the buried remains of over 20 people alongside a range of grave goods including knives, jewelery and pottery vessels, officials said.

Scientists working on the National Grid’s Viking Link project -- construction of the world’s longest land and subsea interconnector involving installation of submarine and underground cables between the United Kingdom and Denmark -- have dug 50 archaeological sites along the onshore cable route since 2020, according to a statement from Wessex Archaeology in the United Kingdom.

“The wealth of evidence recovered is shedding light on life across rural south-east Lincolnshire from prehistory to the present day, with highlights including a Bronze Age barrow and a Romano-British farmstead. The most striking discovery, however, is the remains of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery,” according to Wessex Archaeology.

“The burials in the cemetery deliberately focus on an earlier Bronze Age ring ditch and indicate the funerary landscape was long established,” scientists said. “Archaeologists uncovered the buried remains of over 20 people alongside a range of grave goods including knives, jewellery and pottery vessels. From these 250 artefacts, experts know the cemetery dates to the 6th and 7th centuries AD.”

Among some of the most notable discovery was the burial of a teenage girl and a child, both of whom lay on their sides with the child tucked in behind the older girl, officials said.

“Two small gold pendants set with garnets and a delicate silver pendant with an amber mount were recovered from around the teenager’s head or chest, together with two small blue glass beads and an annular brooch,” according to Wessex Archaeology.

The relationship between the child and the teenager is not yet known -- and may never be -- but scientists are now conducting research and analysis on the subjects, including isotope and Ancient DNA analysis of the skeletal remains.

Officials say that this critical research could help to identify “familial relationships and broader genetic links both within this community and between others in the region, and the movement of people in wider society.”

“I really enjoyed being part of the project. It was surprising how many artefacts we found across the route - the gold Anglo-Saxon pendant from the burial ground was a highlight as was the outreach with the local communities to share what we found,” said Peter Bryant who led the project for Viking Link. “It has been very interesting and exciting to help unearth the hidden treasures that have lain dormant for hundreds of years, in such a careful way.”

Specialists will also be looking at the artefacts discovered on the burial site as well as the layout of the cemetery in hopes of learning more about the economic, cultural and social factors affecting this specific community, “including the import of exotic goods and the health of those buried within different parts of the cemetery,” according to Wessex Archaeology. “Although many Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are known in Lincolnshire, most were excavated decades ago when the focus was on the grave goods, not the people buried there,” said Jacqueline McKinley, principal osteoarchaeologist of Wessex Archaeology. “Excitingly, here we can employ various scientific advancements, including isotopic and DNA analyses. This will give us a far better understanding of the population, from their mobility to their genetic background and even their diet.”

Said Wessex Archaeology following the discovery: “As this research unfolds, we hope to greatly extend our understanding of Anglo-Saxon life and death in the region."

By Jon Haworth.

#1500-Year-Old Anglo-Saxon Cemetery Found in UK #ancient graves #ancient tombs #ancient artifacts #archeology #archeolgst #history #history news #ancient history #ancient culture #ancient civilizations #ancient jewelry

[berryhobii]

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH! 🤎🤎🤎

For Day 2, I wanted to give a list of black inventors and their inventions. Due to the whitewashing of history, many people don’t know about the revolutionary inventions that black people created. Some inventions were stolen by white inventors and patented so that these black inventors never got credit or revenue. There were also many instances of discrimination that didn’t allow black inventors to patent their inventions; they were often asked for extensive proof and sometimes, their inventions were destroyed and the ideas were given to white inventors to take credit for instead. Thankfully, that isn’t the case anymore and black inventors have ingrained themselves into history books and text. Let us look at some of the inventions that make life today much easier.

Michael Croslin(1933-1989): Blood Pulse and Monitoring Device

Frederick McKinley Jones(1893-1961): Roof Mounted Refrigeration for Vehicles

Garrett Morgan(1877-1963): Gas Mask and 3 Light Traffic Signal

Sarah Boone(1847-1904): Improved Ironing Board

Mary Van Brittan Brown(1922-1999): Home Camera Security System

Alexander Miles: Automatic Elevator Doors

Henry Brown(1800s):Safe Deposit Box

Alfred L. Cralle(1866-1920): Ice Cream Scoop

Lyda Newman(1898): Synthetic Hairbrush

Doctor Shirley Jackson: Breakthroughs in scientific research that allowed others to create call waiting, Caller ID, the portable fax and many others

Albert Richardson(1894): Casket Lowering System

Doctor Patricia Bath(1986): Invented Laser Probe that revolutionized cataract and other eyes surgeries, even restoring the sight of many individuals

George Crum(1824-1914): Potato Chips

Charles Drew(1904-1950): Blood Banks

David N. Crosthwait(1898-1976): Heating System

These are just a few of the hundreds of things black people have invented and so many of them are used to make life easier and better. So we thank all of these inventors for what they endured and the study they set forth to give us not only simple luxuries and pleasures but also advancements in medicine and science.

THANK YOU BLACK INVENTORS AND SCIENTISTS🤎🤎🤎🤎

#black history month #black history #history #black lives matter