- The English Channel is a body of water that separates the island of Great Britain from the rest of Europe.
- The English Channel is 563 kilometers long. The English Channel is 246 kilometers wide.
- In 1875 Mathew Webb was the first known person to swim across the English Channel from Great Britain to the rest of Europe in 22 hours!
- The first woman to cross the English Channel was Gertrude Ederle in 2004.
- Over 600 people have been recorded crossing the English Channel in a very unpredictable time.
- Mozart was a famous composer and said to be the best musician. He could write and compose music by age 4.
- Mozart was born on January 27, 1756 and died on December 5, 1791.
- Mozart admired the musical work of Bach, Handel and Hayden.
- Mozart got married to Constanze Weber in 1782. They had 6 children, but only 2 survived infancy.
- Mozart died of kidney failure and was buried with a common fanfare, which was usual at the time.
- Koala bears are bearlike arboreal Australian marsupial that has thick, gray fur and feeds on Eucalyptus leaves.
- Koala Bears are not related to bears as many people are led to believe. Koala Bears are actually related to Wombats and Kangaroos.
- Koala Bears get their name from "teddy bears" because they look like them.
- Koala Bears have thick, gray fur, a large hairless nose, round ears, no tails and white stomachs.
- Koala Bears eat Eucalyptus leaves. They don't drink much water because they get moisture from the leaves. They also consume a lot of food - about two and a half pounds everyday!
- The Leaning Tower of is a big tower that is found and built in Pisa, Italy. It was called the Leaning Tower of Pisa because it was built in Pisa, Italy.
- The Leaning Tower of Pisa is a bell tower in Italy. It is famous because when it was built it was not vertical.
- The tower was so close to the ground that it was about to fall. Then, after the tower was so close to the ground that people had to do a lot of construction work.
- There was scaffolding all around the Tower of Pisa for about twenty years. The last part of scaffolding was removed so that the tower could be seen.
- The Leaning Tower of Pisa is fifty six meters tall. The Leaning Tower of Pisa weighs about 14,500 tones.
- Chromosomes are tiny structures inside cells made from DNA, RNA, and protein. The information inside chromosomes act like a recipe that tells cells how to function and replicate. Every form of life has its own unique set of instructions, including you. Your chromosomes describe what color eyes you have, how tall you are, and whether you're a boy or a girl.
- When we talk about a gene we are referring to a section of DNA. One example of this would be the gene that determines the color of your hair. When we talk about the specific sequence of a gene (like the sequence that gives you black hair versus the sequence that gives you blonde hair), this is called an allele. So everyone has a gene that determines their hair color, only blondes have the allele that makes the hair blonde.
- As we mentioned above, humans have 23 different pairs of chromosomes for a total of 46 chromosomes. We all get 23 chromosomes from our mother and 23 from our father. Scientists number these pairs from 1 to 22 and then an extra pair called the "X/Y" pair. The X/Y pair determines if you are a boy or a girl. Girls have two X chromosomes called the XX, while boys have an X and a Y chromosome called the XY.
- Within each chromosome are specific sections of DNA called genes. Each gene contains the code or recipe to make a specific protein. These proteins determine how we grow and what traits we inherit from our parents. The gene is sometimes called a unit of heredity.
- When a cell is not dividing (called the interphase of the cell cycle), the chromosome is in its chromatin form. In this form it is a long, very thin, strand. When the cell begins to divide, that strand replicates itself and winds up into shorter tubes. Before the split, the two tubes are pinched together at a point called the centromere. The shorter arms of the tubes are called the "p arms" and the longer arms are called the "q arms."
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- Paris is a the capital city of the country of France. Paris is popular for the Eiffel Tower, its fashion, its perfumes, its museums and art.
- To celebrate the bicentenary of the French Revolution in 1989, the Golden Dome was rebuilt.
- In 1976, there was a WINE TASTING in Paris that blindly compared Californian wines with French wines. Californian wine eventually won. The lone reporter covering the event was blacklisted for reporting it
- Japanese tourists when visiting Paris sometimes have to be sent back to Japan because they suffer from extreme shock sometimes called “Paris Syndrome.” It is because they were completely unprepared for the reality of Paris not being the greatest place in the world.
- Guy de Maupassant (the famed French writer) ate lunch at base of Eiffel Tower almost each day. His reason was that he hated the Eiffel Tower and that was the only place in the whole Paris from which he could not see it.
- Bangalore, officially known as Bengaluru , is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka.
- It has a population of about8.4 million and a metropolitan population of about 8.52 million, making it the third most populous city and fifth most populous urban agglomeration in India.
- Located in southern India on the Deccan Plateau, at a height of over 900 m (3,000 ft) above sea level, Bengaluru is known for its pleasant climate throughout the year.
- Its elevation is the highest among the major large cities of India.
- Bengaluru is fourth among the top 15 cities contributing to India's overall GDP.\
- A solar flare is a flash of brightness observed over the sun's surface or solar limbs.
- Solar flares affect all of the layers of the solar atmosphere.
- A solar flare has a large amount of energy up to 6x10 joules.
- A solar flare is sometimes really preferred to be called as a phenomena.
- Solar flares are created on many sun spots.
- Pongal is an Indian harvesting festival witch is about four days long from January 13th to January 16th.
- Pongal is one of the most important festival celebrated by Indian people from the state of Tamil Nadu.
- Pongal is mainly celebrated for thankfulness of the sun god of India.
- The festival (pongal)might be over one thousand years old.
- The day that people get ready for this festival is called bhogi.On the day bhogi all the people harvest and make food for when pongal starts.
- Snow is something that you see outside on snowy day.The snow that you see is really made up of different sizes.
- Snow comes in many different sizes depending on how the ice looked when it didn't become snow yet.
- Snow starts to form whenever water in the atmosphere starts to freeze up.
- Sometimes when snow melts very quick then it will become water that just dries up very quickly.
- Snow is used for sport activities such as skiing and sledding.
- An Armillary sphere is a globe made of movable, concentric rings that depict such things as a horizon.
- The first sphere was created in 1543 by a German mathematician.
- Later someone else created a sphere instead of earth in it they put a sun in the center.
- Now, in modern days the sun isn't there in the center, the earth is.
- The earliest know sphere that was half built was tributed to the Greeks in the early second century of A.D.
- Young James Cook joined the Royal Navy in 1755 and rose quickly through the rankings.
- At that time the Pacific Ocean covering more than one - third of the Earth's surface.
- Cook discovered and charted the Pacific basin than any other explorer.
- James Cook lived for 50 years (1728 - 1779).
- Between 1768 and 1779 he crossed the South Pacific three times and twice venturing the Antarctic Circle.
- During WW1, a number of countries pushed their clocks forward an hour to extend daylight
- This concept was expanding during WW2 with may countries observing.
- In the U.S. teh adjustment continued from Feb 9,1942 and Sept 30,1945.
- Many countries retained a year daylight adjustment after the war.
- Some countries adopted and rejected the plan like Japan and China.
- GPS---- global positioning system is a space age version of triangulation.
- A GPS was originally developed for military use.
- There are satellites roaming around earth for signals of the GPS.
- When a GPS user is on land or sea calls satellites roam around earth for signal.
- In the U.s GPS system the Navstar sratellites orbits the earth for around for about 12 hours.
- GPS signals are broadcast on military and civilian use.
- The violin is an instrument witch has strings and a bow to strum all of the strings.
- The violin only has four strings.The strings are G, A D, and E.
- The violin is held between the left collar bone to you're chin so you can strum the violin.
- The violin is the smallest and highest pitched string instrument.
- A person that plays the violin is called a violinist.A person who repairs violins is called a luthier.
- Julie Payette was born October 20 1963.
- Julie Payette was born in Montreal, Quebic
- Julie Payette was a Canadian engineer and a astronaut.
- When Julie Payette was an astronaut she completed two space crafts called the STS-96 and STS-127.
- Julie Payettte served chief astronaut for the CSA, and played roles for NASA and CSA, such as CAPCOM.
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