Mesa Verde

Mesa Verde National Park is a national park in southwest Colorado, in the United States. The park occupies 81.4 square miles (211 square kilometers). and features numerous ruins of homes and villages built by ancient Pueblo people. It is well known for several spectacular cliff dwellings including Cliff Palace, which is thought to be the largest cliff dwelling in North America. A cliffhanger is a plot device in which a movie, an abrupt ending, often leaving the main characters in a precarious or difficult situation. This type of ending is used to ensure that, if a next installment is made, audiences will return to find out how the cliffhanger is resolved. The phrase comes from the common end of episode situation of the protagonist left hanging from the edge of a cliff. Although a cliffhanger can be enjoyable as a page turner at the end of a chapter in a novel, a cliffhanger at the very end of a work can be frustrating. Cliffhangers can build anticipation for sequels. However, if no sequel follows, effective suspension of disbelief can leave the audience or readership wondering what happened in the work's fictional realm. Some television stations have decided that that cliffhanger inflicts too much mental cruelty on the audience, and show the cliffhanger episode and the next episode strung together in one session.

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