In 1875, George Anderson scaled the rock face and drilled the holes for cabling. It is those cables that guide hikers to the summit of Half Dome. While most visitors are content to gaze at the ...
Payne is an Assistant Professor of history at St. Bonaventure University in New York ... The affair took its name from Teapot Dome, a rock formation in Wyoming that looked like a teapot and, more ...
proposed to support the dome with an enormous pillar rising in the center of the church. Another suggested building it out of “sponge-stone” (perhaps spugna, a porous volcanic rock ...