The 18-mile Mount Vernon Trail is one of the Washington, D.C. Metro area's most popular trails. Just across the Potomac River from D.C. in Virginia, the trail links Theodore Roosevelt Island Park with George Washington's Estate in Mount Vernon.
Gilead, area of ancient Palestine east of the Jordan River, corresponding to modern northwestern Jordan. The region is bounded in the north by the YarmÅ«k River and in the southwest by what were known in ancient times as the âplains of Moabâ; to the east there is no definite boundary.
The Epic of Gilgamesh was written on clay tablets in the cuneiform writing style of ancient Sumer (modern Iraq) over four thousand years ago. Two parts god and one part man, Gilgamesh is thought to have ruled over the city-state of Uruk around 2750 B.C.