The first man killed when an amorous gunman raged through Darwin attempted to defend himself with a frying pan, a forensic expert has said in court. Benjamin Glenn Hoffmann, 47, pleaded not guilty to four counts of murder in four locations on the afternoon of June 4, 2019. The first man killed in the hour-long […]
A Sydney man has pleaded not guilty to animal cruelty charges after a dead dog was found weighed down underwater with a block of cement. Swimmers found the dog at Yowie Bay in southern Sydney on Saturday and called police. Police divers recovered the two-year-old Belgian Malinois and took him to a veterinarian for a […]
A man who left shotgun ammunition in a ute he loaned accused murderer Benjamin Glenn Hoffmann before he shot four people in Darwin says he did not give him the gun. The 47-year-old pleaded not guilty to four counts of murder in less than an hour on the afternoon of June 4, 2019. Earlier today, […]
The Sierra Nevada Mountains, sometimes referred to as the “Range of Light,” are one of the most beautiful continuous mountain ranges in the United States. Although the Rockies are the longest mountain range in the United States, the Sierra Nevada is the longest continuous, unified mountain range. The mountain range is located in the western […]
How are mountains formed? Most mountains owe their existence to the movement of tectonic plates, large sections of the earth’s crust. Where two tectonic plates converge, they warp and bend, resulting in the most common type: folded mountains. The Himalayas, for example, are the result of the slow collision of the Asian and Indian plates. […]
Seeing the size and majesty of the mountains, the ancient humans couldn’t help but feel that they were standing in the presence of something… divine. And in the belief systems of many ancient cultures, it was generally held that mountains were something spiritual – serving either as a home for the gods, or as a […]