Jurassic Park
THE JURASSIC PERIOD
Although "Jurassic" is a commonly used term today (thanks to Michael Crichton’s book and Steven Spielberg’s movie), what does the word "Jurassic" really mean? "Jurassic" was a period of history named for the Jura Mountains that border France and Switzerland - the place where rocks of this age were first studied. (This link depicting the Jura Mountains will permit you to zoom in.) It was a time, paleontologists believe, BEFORE Tyrannosaurus rex (the biggest predator ever to stalk the American West) and one of its favored prey, the Triceratops. Both species likely lived during the Cretaceous Period. What was the world like during the Jurassic Period? What kinds of dinosaurs lived then? The answers to those questions may surprise you.
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Biographies
History
- American Colonies
- American Revolution - Highlights
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Auschwitz: Place of Horrors
- Book Burning and Censorship
Disasters
- America Attacked: 9/11
- Black Death
- Challenger Disaster
- Columbia Space Shuttle Explosion
- Deepwater Horizon: Disaster in the Gulf
- Fatal Voyage: The Titanic
Philosophy
- Bagger Vance and and the Bhagavad Gita
- Bonhoeffer: Martyr of Faith
- C.S. Lewis
- Dead Sea Scrolls
- Easter Story
- Freedom of Religion