How to write your own language

1. First you have to think of a name like Houkalau make sure you write it down or you might forget.
2. Second, you have to figure out if you want a alphabet or a word for each word.
3. Third, you think out how to say the words.
4. Then , write down how to write them, for an example write the English alphabet in a way hard to read.
5. Then you have fun with your language.

Desert Survival

The desert is a strange and beautiful place, but for the unwary visitor who makes too many mistakes, it can be a very unforgiving place as well. One small error can turn a pleasant Sunday afternoon drive or a camping trip into a tragedy.

With a bit of knowledge, however, and a lot of common sense, tragedies can be avoided completely. After all, surviving in the desert is nothing more than plain old common sense.

Safety rules for desert survival:

1. Always tell someone where you are going and when you plan to be back. Let them know your route and the type of vehicle you are using. And don’t change your plans. Don’t depend on a cellular phone in these situations as they don’t always work when away from civilization. Your best bet is to also leave your route and information about your vehicle and with whom you’re traveling in writing. This is also a good place to leave information about any potential health issues anyone who is with you might have and what type of emergency supplies you already have with you.

2. Be prepared for every emergency. Make sure your car is in good condition with good hoses, a spare tire, spare fan belts, necessary tools, extra gas, water, and oil. Many problems in the desert start with a car that breaks down due to ill repair.

3. Have extra water for each person traveling with you. A good judge is one gallon per person per day. Have adequate first aid supplies. Think “emergency” before you go and bring those extra things you might need. With water, the rule is more is better. You can always drink it when you get home if it isn’t used.

4. If you have water, make sure you drink it as needed. Rationing water can become very dangerous. Often when a person is dehydrated, the thinking processes malfunction. Drink what you need.

5. Stay with your vehicle if you have a problem. It will be the first things found by searchers because it’s much easier to see from the air. Also, your car has many things to help with your survival such as mirrors, hub caps, a horn, a battery, lights, a lighter, gas, oil, and floor mats. Raise the hood and trunk of your vehicle to show distress.

6. Make sure you have a flashlight and check the batteries often. A flashlight without batteries has no value.

7. If water is limited, keep your mouth SHUT. Do not talk, eat, smoke, drink alcohol, or eat salt.

8. If you are absolutely positive about the route to help, and feel you must leave your vehicle, make sure you leave a note for rescuers telling them who you are, when you left, and the route you are taking.

9. Do not sit or lie directly on the ground. Make a sun shade and elevate your body. The ground can be 30 degrees hotter than the free air temperature. Use a car seat or something to raise yourself at least a foot and a half off the surface. There is also a greater possibility of having a problem with a poisonous insect or snakes if you are directly on the ground.

10. Protect your eyes with sunglasses. Even though the glare doesn’t seem to make a difference, it will impair your distant vision and hamper your adaptation to night vision. It can also cause headaches. If you have so sunglasses, improvise with a sun shield made from cardboard or cloth. Applying charcoal, soot, or oil around your eyes may help.

11. If you have chapstick, use it. Do not lick your lips as it will hasten chapping and splitting.

12. Change your socks regularly. Change them even if you’re changing to used socks. Sunning and aeration of socks and undergarments have a marked freshening value.

13. Do not remove clothing in an attempt to stay cool. This hastens dehydration and can be deadly. Wearing clothes helps you avoid sunburn as well.

14. If you see a dust storm coming, lie down with your back to the wind, covering your head with a clost to keep dust out of your eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.

15. If the weather is cool, get a fire started.

16. A roadway is a sign of civilization. If you find a traveled road, stay on it. You might find other people on a road.

17. Keep an eye on the sky. Flash floods may occur any time thunderheads are in sight, even thought it may not rain where you are. Do not remain in dry washes which can flood and be quite dangerous, if not deadly.

18. Try to stay under control. There is nothing more dangerous than blind panic.

In any survival situation, everything you do must be proceeded by only one thought: Am I safe in doing this

How to Survive on a Desert Island

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A desert island may sound inhospitable, but with the proper knowledge, anyone can survive on one.

Steps

Solar Stills

1. A solar still is a device that uses the suns energy to capture water. You will need...
   
   • plastic wrap sheet, or something to that effect
     
   • hole, bowl, or some sort of ditch
     
   • weight (rock, sand, keys, etc.)
     
   
   
2. Place the plastic wrap over the hole, completely covering it. In the center, place the weight, creating a slight grade to the center. If left for a period of time, water will collect in the center.
   

Tree Stills

1. A tree still uses the water given off by trees to hydrate you. You will need
   
   • plastic bag
     
   • a tree
     
   
   
2. Place the bag over a section of the tree and tie it shut as tight as you can. Wait overnight, and you should have some water in your bag.
   

If There Is A Water Source

1. If a direct water source is available, try and make a fire (this will be covered later). By boiling the water (if you have a container ie: a pot or coconut shell, that is) you will rid the water of bacteria, and if needed, create heat for you if you are in a cold environment. If you choose to drink directly from a stream, try and find a spot where the water is running.
   

Getting Water From other Things

1. Water can be found in in any plant, some more than others. On a desert island, you may try eating any (non-poisonous) fruit available if you are in the tropics, and if there are cacti around, then you can cut it open and chew the pulp for both water and a food source. If coconuts are available, they can be used for a water supply, food, a bowl for a solar still for for boiling water, and the outer rusk can be used as tinder when scraped off. If you are not sure if a fruit or plant is poisonous, break open the membrane and rub the inside of the object on a designated spot on your arm. Wait 10-20 minutes and observe if anything happens (rash, swelling, pain, etc.). If nothing happens, its probably safe to eat. Never eat a fungus or mushroom unless you are absolutely positive that it is safe. Unless necessary, don't eat it then either.
   

Fire

1. There are many ways to create fire. One of the best known methods is the bow method. for this, you will need...
   
   • bendable stick (living)
     
   • tinder (coconut rusk, wood shavings, etc.)
     
   • vine, or live grass (for the bow's string)
     
   • rock or piece of wood with hole in it.
     
   • another piece of wood with hole in it.
     
   
   
2. Take your bendy stick and curve it into a bow. While it's in this position, tie you vine or grass around both ends, making a sufficient bow. Find a sturdy stick, preferably dead, and wrap the bow's string around it in a loop fashion. Hold your rock or wood with a notch in it in your hand, and put the top of the stick into the notch. With the other end, put it in the notch in the other piece of wood. Pull the bow back and forth, making the stick spin in the notch to create enough friction to create an ember from the bottom wood. Take that ember, and put it into your gathered tinder and blow on it, making a flame. With that flame, you can catch larger sticks alight, and create a nice fire.
   
3. Another method is less complicated. You will need...
   
   • A 9-volt battery (the one with both terminals on one end)
     
   • Steel wool
     
   • Tinder (coconut rusk, wood shavings, etc.)
     
   
   
4. Touch both terminals on the battery to the steel wool. The electrical overload in it will cause the steel to melt at 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. With this ember, you catch the tinder on fire, and create a fire that way.
   
5. You can also make a fire from...
   
   • Glasses
     
   • Concave mirror
     
   • Glasses: During the day, focus the suns rays onto some tinder using your glasses. The heat from the condensed light will catch it.
     
   • Concave mirror: Face the mirror towards the sun, and focus the reflection onto the tinder. The condensed light will catch it.
     
   • Flint and Steel: strike steel or a hard rock against flint, effectively creating a spark, which can be used to light the tinder.
     
   
   

Getting Rescued
Your main priority while on this island is to be rescued. This can be done in a few different fashions.

1. Signal fire: The international sign of distress is 3 fires in the shape of a triangle. After you've made the fires, throw living plants onto the fire, making heavy smoke. This will help you get noticed. At night, a fire works well as a beacon to ships or air-craft.
   
2. Anomalies: Anything out of the ordinary will help you get noticed. Moving rocks into an odd shape helps (Remember, a triangle means distress), and bright colors that aren't normally found in the landscape help also. Bright orange clothing or other materials are most noticeable, and anything reflective can be used to catch someones eye with a glint.
   

Tips

• Boil your water (if you can) before drinking from a direct source
  
• Test any unknown food for poisons before ingesting
  
• A triangle is the universal sign of distress
  
• Don't eat fungus unless you have intimate knowledge
  
• Stay in one spot if you can, and wait to be rescued
  
• Head for high ground to have a better chance of being noticed.
  
• Throw copper (copper can be found in pennies) in the fire to turn it green.
  

Warnings

• Do not attempt stranding yourself purposefully with knowledge from this guide. Only attempt surviving after correct training and consulting professionals in various helpful fields. It is dangerous, and may result in severe injury or death.
  

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Today

Today I went to school and today I have music and science. First in music we talked about all the teachers that were there the string teacher, the vocal teacher, and the wind teacher but we don't do wind until next year. I know I forgot to mention what grade I am in so I'm in 4 grade.Okay now that were done with that than the teachers talked about how to rent a instrument.Then after the talk I went to science with the class and then science teacher talked about rules.

Then we went to recess and I basically chatted with my friends, Blake and Alex. After that we had reading, math and a few another subjects.Then it was Lunch time and I chatted with my two friends then the bell rang. And I went to line up. So, then after we went inside the teacher read a story. Then we had a few subjects like Social Studies. Then we went home.

The Dragon Rock

Once Upon A Time, and imagine if you can, a steep sided valley cluttered with giant, spiky green pine trees and thick, green grass that reaches to the top of your socks so that when you run, you have to bring your knees up high, like running through water. Wildflowers spread their sweet heady perfume along the gentle breezes and bees hum musically to themselves as they cheerily collect flower pollen. People are very happy here and they work hard, keeping their houses spick and span and their children's faces clean. This particular summer had been very hot and dry, making the lean farm dogs sleepy and still. Farmers whistled lazily to themselves and would stand and stare into the distance, trying to remember what it was that they were supposed to be doing. By two o'clock in the afternoon, the town would be in a haze of slumber, with grandmas nodding off over their knitting and farmers snoozing in the haystacks. It was very, very hot. No matter how hot the day, however, the children would always play in the gentle, rolling meadows. With wide brimmed hats and skin slippery with sun block, they chittered and chattered like sparrows, as they frolicked in their favourite spot. Now, their favourite spot is very important to this story because in this particular spot is a large, long, scaly rock that looks amazingly similar to a sleeping dragon. The children knew it was a dragon. The grown ups knew it was a dragon. The dogs and cats and birds knew it was a dragon. But nobody was scared because it never, ever moved. The boys and girls would clamber all over it, poking sticks at it and hanging wet gumboots on its ears but it didn't mind in the least. The men folk would sometimes chop firewood on its zigzagged tail because it was just the right height and the Ladies Weaving Group often spun sheep fleece on its spikes. Often on a cool night, when the stars were twinkling brightly in a velvet sky and the children peacefully asleep, the grown ups would settle for the evening with a mug of steaming cocoa in a soft cushioned armchair. Then the stories about How The Dragon Got There began. Nobody knew for sure, there were many different versions depending on which family told the tale, but one thing that everybody agreed on, was this:
< 2 >In Times of Trouble The Dragon will Wake And Free the Village By making a Lake This little poem was etched into everybody's minds and sometimes appeared on tea towels and grandma's embroidery. The days went by slowly, quietly and most importantly, without any rain. There had been no rain in the valley for as long as the children could remember. The wells were starting to bring up muddy brown water and clothes had to be washed in yesterday's dishwater. The lawns had faded to a crisp biscuit colour and the flowers drooped their beautiful heads. Even the trees seemed to hang their branches like weary arms. The valley turned browner and drier and thirstier, every hot, baking day. The townsfolk grew worried and would murmur to each other when passing with much shaking of heads and tut tuts. They would look upwards searching for rain clouds in the blue, clear sky, but none ever came. "The tale of the Dragon cannot be true," said old Mrs Greywhistle, the shopkeeper. "It hasn't moved an inch, I swear," replied her customer, tapping an angry foot. It was now too hot for the children to play out in the direct sun and they would gather under the shade of the trees, digging holes in the dust and snapping brittle twigs. "The Dragon will help us soon," said one child. "He must do Something," agreed another. "I'm sure he will." They all nodded in agreement. A week went by with no change, the people struggling along as best they could. Some were getting cross at the Dragon and would cast angry, sideways looks at it when passing. The villagers were becoming skinny eyed and sullen. Meanwhile, the children had a plan. Quickly and quietly, they moved invisibly around town, picking and plucking at the fading flowers. With outstretched arms and bouquets up to their chins, they rustled over to where the giant rock lay, as still as ever. The boys and girls placed bunches of flowers around the Dragon in a big circle. They scattered petals around its head and over its nose, then danced around and around it, skipping and chanting the rhyme that they all knew so well. In Times of Trouble The Dragon Will Wake And Save the Village By making a Lake. The searing heat made them dizzy and fuzzy and finally they all fell in a sprawling heap at the bottom of the mound. They looked up at the rock.
< 3 >Nothing happened. A dry wind lazily picked up some flower heads and swirled them around. The air was thick with pollen and perfume. A stony grey nostril twitched. "I saw something," cried the youngest boy. They stared intently. An ear swiveled like a periscope. The ground began to rumble. "Look out! Run!Run!" The children scampered in all directions, shrieking and squealing, arms pumping with excitement. The rumbling grew and grew. The Dragon raised its sleepy head. It got onto its front feet and sat like a dog. It stood up and stretched, arching its long scaly back like a sleek tabby cat. It blinked and looked around with big kind, long lashed eyes. And then its nostrils twitched and quivered again. The older folk were alerted by the screams and shrieks. The ladies held up their long skirts to run and the men rolled their sleeves up and soon the whole town stood together in a tight huddle at the foot of the hill, staring up at the large beast with mouths held open. "AHHHHH AAHHHHHHHHH!!" The noise erupted from the Dragon. "AHHHHH AAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" The families gripped each other tighter and shut their eyes. "AHHHHH CHOOOOOOOOO!!" The sneeze blasted from the Dragon like a rocket, throwing it back fifty paces, causing a whirlwind of dust and dirt. "AHHHHH CHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" The second blast split open the dry earth, sending explosions of soil and tree roots high into the sky like missiles, and something else too ... The people heard the sound but couldn't recognize it at first for it had been such a long time since their ears had heard such tinkling melody. As their eyes widened in wonder, their smiles turned into grins and then yahoos and hoorahs. Water, cold, clear spring water, oozed, then trickled, then roared out of the hole, down the hillside and along the valley floor. The torrent knocked over a farmer's haystack, but he didn't care. The river carried away the schoolteacher's bike shed but she cared not a jot. It even demolished the Ladies Bowling Club changing rooms but they howled with laughter and slapped their thighs. When the flood sent pools of water out towards the golf course, filling up sixteen of the nineteen holes, the men just hooted and whistled and threw their caps up in the air.
< 4 >What used to be a dirty, brown dust bowl, now gleamed and glistened in the sunlight, sending playful waves and ripples across the lake and inviting all to share. "HMMMMM," sighed the Dragon sleepily, and showing his perfect movie star teeth. "Seeing as I'm awake ..." And he lumbered forward with surprising grace and style and disappeared into the cool dark water with a small wave of a claw and flick of his tail. They never saw him again. After the families had restored and rebuilt the village, and set up sailing clubs for the children, and scuba diving for the grandparents, they erected a bandstand and monument in the spot where the Dragon used to lay. Every year to mark the occasion, they would bring garlands of flowers and herbs and arrange them in a big circle. The children would have the day off school, for it was known as 'Water Dragon Day' and wearing the dragon masks that they had been working on all week, would skip and clap and sing. The Dragon helped Us As We said He would Do Hooray for The Dragon Achoo, Achoo, ACHOOOO! And that is the end of the story.

The dragon in Cleveland

Mrs. Rathborn was an odd teacher. She had a crooked smile and a bit of paint on the tip of her nose.
She loved to recite the ABCs frontwards and backwards and even on her head. Mrs. Rathborn felt sad it was summer, because there was no one for her to teach.
Mrs. Rathborn looked at the one letter that arrived in the mail. It came from a girl whom she taught.
The letter said;
Dear Mrs. Rathborn
Since you are a teacher and very smart. I thought you could help me. I saw a dragon, but Mom and Dad don't believe me. It is the size of Mr. Cooper's dog. It has white wings and green skin, a purple head and black eyes.
Love,Courtney
Dear Courtney
I've never seen a dragon, and I don't really believe in them. Where did you see the dragon? What is his name?
Love
Mrs. Rathborn
Dear Mrs. Rathborn, I saw the dragon in Cleveland. Dad was too busy looking at maps and Mom was too busy driving.
"I said, "Mom and Dad! There's a dragon flying over our car!"
But Mom said "Cleveland is where no dragon would be. The dragon is in your head."
Mrs. Rathborn, how is a dragon going to fit in my head?
Love
Courtney
P.S. I don't know what his name is, I didn't ask him yet.
Dear Courtney
Your head is the perfect place for a dragon to be.
Love
Mrs. Rathborn
Dear Mrs. Rathborn,
The dragon isn't in my head, he is sleeping on my doll bed.
Love, Courtney P.S. His name is Wally, and he loves eating carrots, peanuts and marshmallows, he toasts the marshmallows himself. He is a fire breathing dragon.
Dear Courtney
I bet it's fun having a dragon around. Imagine Show and Tell when school starts! You will have the best Show and Tell in the world, (that is if he is real!).
Love
Mrs. Rathborn
Dear Mrs. Rathborn,
Wally is real.
I saw Wally at the movies, but it was too dark, and every time he'd try to say "Hi!", Mom and dad would just "Shush," him.
Wally was very sad about that. I tried to make him feel better by giving him a piece of gum, but it just got stuck in his wings, and I had to help pull it all out. He was very sad.
Love
Courtney
Dear Courtney
Give him a hug for me.
Love
Mrs. Rathborn
Dear Mrs. Rathborn
Wally will be over himself to give you hug tomorrow, just wait.
Love
Courtney
Mrs. Rathborn waited, and even made up the dragon's favorite snacks. There was a knock at the door. Mrs. Rathborn opened the door.
There was Courtney with a paper dragon's mask on.
Her mother was holding her hand.
"Tell her the truth," Courtney's mother said.
"I'm the dragon," Molly sighed.
She took off her mask and bowed down her head.
Mrs. Rathborn only smiled. "I have something for you, Courtney."
"What is it?" Mother asked.
Mrs. Rathborn pulled a painting off of a chair.
Guess who was in the painting?

"It's Wally!" Courtney said, with a happy laugh, as she took the painting from Mrs. Rathborn.

Suddenly, the dragon leapt from the painting, and winked at them.
But of course, only Courtney and Mrs. Rathborn saw him.
The End

The First day of school

The first day of school was very interesting because I had never went to that school. My class had 33 students but it was okay. My teacher's name was Mr. Manchester I can't wait until the next day of school and learn new stuff. The temperature was way to high I mean it must have been 100 degrees outside. There was a class library and we could check out books.Class temerature was just great.I liked my new class very much.

Science facts

Did you know that there are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).

Flea's can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6ft. person jumping 780 ft. into the air.

The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.

Snakes are true carnivorous because they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.

The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length.

100 years ago: The first virus was found in both plants and animals.

90 years ago: The Grand Canyon became a national monument & Cellophane is invented.

80 years ago: The food mixer and the domestic refrigerator were invented.

70 years ago: The teletype and PVC (polyvinyl-chloride) were invented.

60 years ago: Otto Hahn discovered nuclear fission by splitting uranium, Teflon was invented.

50 years ago: Velcro was invented.

40 years ago: An all-female population of lizards was discovered in Armenia.

30 years ago: The computer mouse was invented.

20 years ago: First test-tube baby born in England, Pluto’s moon, Charon, discovered.

10 years ago: First patent for a genetically-engineered mouse was issued to Harvard Medical School.
5 years ago: The first successful cloning of human embryo

The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in the middle ear. It is approximately .11 inches (.28 cm) long.

The longest cells in the human body are the motor neurons. They can be up to 4.5 feet (1.37 meters) long and run from the lower spinal cord to the big toe.

There are no poisonous snakes in Maine.

The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.

The largest man-made lake in the U.S. is Lake Mead, created by Hoover Dam.

The poison arrow frogs of South and Central America are the most poisonous animals in the world.

A new born blue whale measures 20-26 feet (6.0 - 7.9 meters) long and weighs up to 6,614 pounds (3003 kg).

The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.

The Virginia opossum has a gestation period of only 12-13 days.

The Stegosaurus dinosaur measured up to 30 feet (9.1 meters) long but had a brain the size of a walnut.

The largest meteorite crater in the world is in Winslow, Arizona. It is 4,150 feet across and 150 feet deep.

The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.

Skylab, the first American space station, fell to the earth in thousands of pieces in 1979. Thankfully most over the ocean.

It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.

Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200 pounds (90.8 kilograms) on the molars.

The Skylab astronauts grew 1.5 - 2.25 inches (3.8 - 5.7 centimeters) due to spinal lengthening and straightening as a result of zero gravity.

An inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain water is equivalent to 15 inches (38.1 centimeters) of dry, powdery snow.

Tremendous erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years.

40 to 50 percent of body heat can be lost through the head (no hat) as a result of its extensive circulatory network.

A large swarm of desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) can consume 20,000 tons (18,160,000 kilograms) of vegetation a day.

The largest telescope in the world is currently being constructed in northern Chile. The telescope will utilize four - 26 ft. 8 in. (8.13 meters) mirrors which will gather as much light as a single 52 ft. 6 in. (16 meters) mirror.

The Hubble Space Telescope weighs 12 tons (10,896 kilograms), is 43 feet (13.1 meters) long, and cost $2.1 billion to originally build.

The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.

The largest flying animal was the pterosaur which lived 70 million years ago. This reptile had a wing span of 36-39 feet (11-11.9 meters) and weighed 190-250 pounds (86-113.5 kilograms).

The Atlantic Giant Squid's eye can be as large as 15.75 inches (40 centimeters) wide.

Armadillos, opossums, and sloth's spend about 80% of their lives sleeping.

The starfish species, Porcellanaster ivanovi, has been found to live in water as deep as 24,881 feet (7,584 meters).

The tentacles of the giant Arctic jellyfish can reach 120 feet (36.6 meters) in length.

The greatest tide change on earth occurs in the Bay of Fundy. The difference between low tide and high tide can be as great as 54 ft. 6 in. (16.6 meters).

The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 C) at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, NJ, USA.

The most powerful laser in the world, the Nova laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA, USA, generates a pulse of energy equal to 100,000,000,000,000 watts of power for .000000001 second to a target the size of a grain of sand.

The fastest computer in the world is the CRAY Y-MP C90 supercomputer. It has two gigabytes of central memory and 16 parallel central processor units.

The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz. (2.3 kg.).

The deepest part of the ocean is 35,813 feet (10,916 meters) deep and occurs in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. At that depth the pressure is 18,000 pounds (9172 kilograms) per square inch.

The largest cave in the world (the Sarawak Chamber in Malaysia) is 2,300 feet (701 meters) long, 980 feet (299 meters) wide, and more than 230 feet (70 meters) high.

The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimated surface temperature of 864 F (462 C).

The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.

The first electronic digital computer (called ENIAC - the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) was developed in 1946 and contained over 18,000 vacuum tubes.

The leg muscles of a locust are about 1000 times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle.

The cosmos contains approximately 50,000,000,000 galaxies.

There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy.

Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.

Scientists have discovered that copper pollution of the atmosphere occurred about 2500 years ago. This was discovered by analyzing ice cores from Greenland. The pollution was attributed to the Romans who used copper for military purposes and to produce coins.

Hydrofluoric acid will dissolve glass.

In a full grown rye plant, the total length of roots may reach 380 miles (613 km).

In a full grown rye plant, the total length of fine root hairs may reach 6600 miles (10,645 km).

A large sunspot can last for about a week.

If you could throw a snowball fast enough, it would totally vaporize when it hit a brick wall.

Boron nitride (BN) is the second hardest substance known to man.

The female Tarantula Hawk wasp paralyzes a large spider with her sting. She then lays her eggs on the motionless body so that her developing young have a fresh supply of spider meat to feed on.

The seeds of an Indian Lotus tree remain viable for 300 to 400 years.

The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter “J”.

Velcro was invented by a Swiss guy who was inspired by the way burrs attached to clothing.

Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

October 10 is National Metric Day.

If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Super Glue was invented by accident. The researcher was trying to make optical coating materials, and would test their properties by putting them between two prisms and shining light through them. When he tried the cyano-acrylate, he couldn't get the prisms apart.

No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

A car traveling at 80 km/h uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.

Knowledge is growing so fast that ninety per cent of what we will know in fifty years time, will be discovered in those fifty years.

According to an old English system of time units, a moment is one and a half minutes.

The typewriter was invented in 1829, and the automatic dishwasher in 1889.

The wristwatch was invented in 1904 by Louis Cartier.

When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.

By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

Ten minutes of one hurricane contains enough energy to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world.

Most gemstones contain several elements. The exception? The diamond. It's all carbon.

Diamonds are the hardest substance known to man.

Which of the 50 states has never had an earthquake? North Dakota.

When hydrogen burns in the air, water is formed.

Sterling silver contains 7.5% copper.

Cars were first made with ignition keys in 1949.

J.B Dunlop was first to put air into tires.

Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of seventy two.

It is energy-efficient to turn off a fluorescent light only if it will not be used again within an hour or more. This is because of the high voltage needed to turn it on, and the shortened life this high voltage causes.

The Earth's equatorial circumference (40,075 km) is greater than its polar circumference (40,008 km).

Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world.

Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.

The Earth's average velocity orbiting the sun is 107,220 km per hour.

There is a high and low tide because of our moon and the Sun.

The United States consumes 25% of all the world’s energy.

Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.

There is enough fuel in a full tank of a Jumbo Jet to drive an average car four times around the world.

The surface speed record on the moon is 10.56 miles per hour. It was set with the lunar rover.

If you could drive to the sun -- at 55 miles per hour -- it would take about 193 years

The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert.

Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.

A Boeing 707 uses four thousand gallons of fuel in its take-off climb.

The planet Saturn has a density lower than water. So, if placed in water it would float.

Since 1959, more than 6,000 pieces of 'space junk' (abandoned rocket and satellite parts) have fallen out of orbit - many of these have hit the earth's surface.

It takes 70% less energy to produce a ton of paper from recycled paper than from trees.

Every year in the US, 625 people are struck by lightning.

Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.

The rocket engine has to supply its own oxygen so it can burn its fuel in outer space.

The North Atlantic gets 1 inch wider every year.

Oxygen is the most abundant element in the Earth’s crust, waters, and atmosphere (about 49.5%)

A stroke of lightning discharges from 10 to 100 million volts & 30,000 amperes of electricity.

A bolt of lightning is about 54,000°F (30,000°C); six times hotter than the Sun.

Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe (75%).

The average distance between the Earth & the Moon is 238,857 miles (384,392 km).

The moon is 27% the size of the Earth.

The Earth weighs 6.6 sextillion tons, or 5.97 x 1024 kg.

The center of the Sun is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million °C).

Sunlight takes about 8 minutes & 20 seconds to reach the Earth at 186,282 miles/sec (299,792 Km/sec).

The highest temperature on Earth was 136°F (58°C) in Libya in 1922.

The lowest temperature on Earth was -128.6°F (-89.6°C) in Antarctica in 1983.

Sunlight can penetrate clean ocean water to a depth of 240 feet.

The average ocean floor is 12,000 feet.

The temperature can be determined by counting the number of cricket chirps in fourteen seconds and adding 40.

House flies have a lifespan of two weeks.

Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.

Starfish don't have brains.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

Shrimp's hearts are in their heads.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds

Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

Porcupines float in water.

An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain.

An iguana can stay under water for twenty-eight minutes.

The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.

Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sideways, like scissors, to extract the juices from the food.

Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.

Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours of sleep per day.

Armadillos can walk underwater.

There are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.

Certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen.

Only humans sleep on their backs.

The human brain is 80% water.

Everyone's tongue print is different.

As an adult, you have more than 20 square feet of skin on your body--about the same square footage as a blanket for a queen-sized bed.

In your lifetime, you'll shed over 40 pounds of skin.

15 million blood cells are produced and destroyed in the human body every second.

Every minute, 30-40,000 dead skin cells fall from your body.

The brain uses more than 25% of the oxygen used by the human body.

If your mouth was completely dry, you would not be able to distinguish the taste of anything.

There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.

Muscles are made up of bundles from about 5 in the eyelid to about 200 in the buttock muscle.

Muscles in the human body (640 in total) make up about half of the body weight.

The human body has enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.

The human head is a quarter of our total length at birth, but only an eighth of our total length by the time we reach adulthood.

Most people blink about 17,000 times a day.

Moths have no stomach.

Hummingbirds can't walk.

Sea otters have 2 coats of fur.

A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.

A zebra is white with black stripes.

The animal with the largest brain in relation to its body is the ant.

The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.

A crocodile’s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.

Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.

Giraffes are unable to cough.

Sharks are immune to cancer.

Despite the hump, a camel’s spine is straight.

Cheetah's can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in 3 seconds.

A giraffe's neck contains the same number of vertebrae as a human.

The heart of giraffe is two feet long, and can weigh as much as twenty four pounds.

On average, Elephants sleep for about 2 hours per day.

Lobsters have blue blood.

Shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel.

A mosquito has 47 teeth.

Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.

Seventy percent of the dust in your home consists of shed human skin

Fish are the only vertebrates that outnumber birds.

A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head.

The average human produces a quart of saliva a day -- about 10,000 gallons in a lifetime

Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.

The embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother's womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born.

Ants do not sleep.

Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased in the US is contaminated with bacteria.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over 1 million descendents.

An Astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space. The cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity.

The oldest known fossil is of a single-celled organism, blue-green algae, found in 3.2 billion year-old stones in South Africa.

The oldest multicellular fossils date from ~700 million years ago.

The earliest cockroach fossils are about 280 million years old.

Healthy nails grow about 2 cm each year. Fingernails grow four times as fast as toenails.

20/20 vision means the eye can see normally at 20 feet. 20/15 is better; the eye can see at 20 feet what another eye sees at 15 feet.

The average person has 100,000 hairs on his/her head. Each hair grows about 5 inches (12.7 cm) every year.

There are 60,000 miles (97,000 km) in blood vessels in every human

First Day of School

The first day of school was very interesting because I had never went to that school. My class had 33 students but it was okay. My teacher's name was Mr. Manchester I can't wait until the next day of school and learn new stuff. The temperature was way to high I mean it must have been 100 degrees outside. There was a class library and we could check out books.Class temerature was just great.I liked my new class very much.

The Great Wall of China

Building of the Wall began over 9,000 years ago and was initially hundreds of miles of separated fortifications built by various rulers of China's independent states. But around 220 B.C., Shi Huang Di became the first emperor of a united China and decided that the various walls needed to be fortified and joined together. He ordered thousands of watchtowers to be built 12 metres tall and 12 square metres at their base with 6-metre walls of granite joining them. This was obviously a massive undertaking and required thousands of workers. Over 300,000 workmen, criminals and political prisoners were dragged off to build the wall. Many died from malnutrition, fighting, or just plain exhaustion before even getting to the construction sites. . There wasn't always rock available, so they used earth and rubble that they pounded until it was hard. In other places the hills were so steep that oxen couldn't pull the carts of rock up to the building site, so the men themselves carried the rocks on their backs. In the desert, the wall was built using sand, pebbles and grass.
But why go to all the trouble? The obvious answer is protection: keeping enemies of the empire out, although, at the time construction first began, China didn't have any powerful enemies. Besides, the wall would require far too many people to man it. It seems the wall may have been much more effective at keeping the Chinese people in than at keeping enemies out. But Some say the wall was really built to satisfy the emperor's paranoia and his love of grandiose schemes and that his officials supported the excessive structure as it was also a great way to keep criminals busy.
Whatever the emperor's reason, he didn't live long enough to play it out. He died in 210 B.C. and thanks to a lot of squabbling and deceit, his dynasty, called the Qin dynasty, collapsed only four years later. The Han dynasty that followed used the Wall effectively to ward off enemies, but after that dynasty's collapse, enemy tribes gained power in the north, and held it for some 400 years. It was refortified, and in the 13th century A.D., the Mongol invader Genghis Khan took two years to break through it.In the 14th century, the Ming dynasty did some extensive renovations to the badly eroded wall, extended it to its 6,400 kms. and added cannons, and decorations. Today, The Wall is considered one of the great wonders of the world. UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) put it on the world heritage list in 1987 to ensure its preservation and its place in history.
When the Manchus took control of China in 1644, the wall ceased to have military significance. The empire now extended well north of the wall, and China's new enemies were to come from a different direction - across the sea. Today, although the wall no longer plays any role in China's defence system it has become a symbol of the nation and the ingenuity and will of the people.