Techgab1415
Friday, May 15, 2015
Bet You Didn't Know...
The Pilgrims came over on the cauliflower.
King Solomon had 600 porcupines.
To stop a neck wound from bleeding, tie a tourniquet around the person's neck.
Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.
The Queen's navy defeated the Spanish Armadillo.
Spanish gorillas nipped at Napoleon's flanks.
Blacks sometimes get sick as hell anemia.
Vestal virgins were pure and chased.
Math
Math book: You have issues.
Science
Black hole #2: Fame is fleeting.
Language Arts
The Dark Side of Mother Goose
Allison VanNest wrote on www.grammarly.com:
"Murder, torture, mass death by plague…not exactly the stuff of children’s literature, right? Actually, if you read the rhymes of Mother Goose, it is. Most people don’t realize the macabre history of these innocuous-sounding rhymes, but dig beneath the surface, and you’ll find Mother Goose poetry is chock-full of gruesome imagery."
Link: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/2015/the-dark-side-of-mother-goose1/
Jack and Jill Went Up the Hill
Three Blind Mice
Thomas Cranmer, who were burned at the stake for heresy. The blindness is a device referring to their refusal to see Catholicism as the true faith.
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
News, Books and Movies for Kids
DOGO Media is the leading online network empowering kids to engage with digital media in a fun, safe and social environment. Used by well over a million students and teachers from around the world, our websites have quickly grown into a community of kids and educators engaging positively with current events, books, and movies.
DOGO News
The leading source for current events, news and non-fictional content for Common Core ELA, Science and Social Studies. With thousands of news articles and new original content added daily, we are the leading online source of current events for students, teachers and schools.
Link: www.dogonews.com
DOGO Books
Link: www.dogobooks.com
DOGO Movies
Link: www.dogomovies.com
Vintage Photos of Nuns Doing Normal Things
Eleven Videos on Innovation
Link: www.nbclearn.com
HIstory of Math Words and Symbols
The Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics pages provide information on the origins of many of theEnglish mathematical words in use today. The story of a particular word may be very complicated. There has been an English word ALGEBRA for nearly 500 years and the word can be traced back another 700 years to an expression in Arabic. The word has been around for a long time, travelled through several languages and experienced great shifts in meaning. There are patterns in the history of particular words and there are also procedures for uncovering that history. These notes describe in general terms the origins of the modern vocabulary of mathematics and the sources of information on which theEarliest Uses entries are based.