T. Rex and the Magic Wand

Hi today my post is a story I hope you will enjoy it!

Once there was a T. Rex on a busy farm and was planting some corn. When he dug his 1st hole he discovered a magic wand. His wife said to try it out so he said ''poof''' and all his corn was planted! ''Wow'' he said. Then he used his wand to do everything in his house. Then he went to Africa to help people get big farms. Then he went home to his farm in Alabama.

When he got home his wife hugged him and said she made dinner. After he had dinner he went to bed. The next morning he had some food to the shop to buy a pig as a pet. When he got there some crooks were stealing the pig he wanted to buy. He used his wand to stop the crooks and he took them to jail. Then he bought the pig. The end.

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Welcome to our Heart......

I am guessing you were watching your TV on the 20th at noon and so this is a special post. Now time to learn about the Presidents.
You know that we have 44 presidents my favorite president is in the photo below it is Thomas Jefferson oh and Obama is also my favorite president.

Oh! We can't forget the 42 presidents who did great things and not so great things. Bye come again soon!

Let's jump in the time machine!

Do you have kids that hate history and you don't know what to do? This is the book for you. From 4.5 mya to 2009 this is the book of world history. You can see our ancestors read comics and see knights. You can meet Louis XIV. You can buy it here. Bye.

Egypt part 2

Hi. Today I am writing about Egypt. Ok people in Egypt love music at party's so this photo says it all. Oh and they mostly have woman dance at the party.
You may have heard of Abu Simbal which was rebuilt 194 feet higher because a dam was being built and made a lake rise.


Now a map of Egypt. Cario is the capitol of Egypt. You can see the Great Pyramids from Cario.
Have a great day! Sam.

John D. MacArthur Beach State Park

Ok today we went to the John D. MacArthur Beach State Park. As you can see it was a very cool place and there was a nice volunteer who taught us about the things here oh! also there is a 125,000 year old reef (that's old!!!!!!!!!). Oh! is that a big shell or what!!!

It is cool this is a horseshoe crab it lived with the dinosaurs!!!

Now do any of you know what this is? If you do let me know.

In this photo I do not recognise my self !!!!!!!!!! Enjoy. Bye. Oh look over here for more

VOTE!

Ok here is what I have to say . . . VOTE! Today I woke up early to go voting with my dad and it was cool. It was cool because I like the process. If I could vote I would vote for Obama because he sounds like a better person. This election will be the closest in . . . well history! Make sure to vote. Have fun bye.

world landmarks . . . part 1

Hello everybody. I have a little of the world here. Enjoy!

ST. BASILS CATHEDRAL

1)St. Basil's was built to commemorate the capture of the Tatar stronghold of Kazan in 1552, which was on the Feast of the Intercession of the Virgin.

2)In 1588, Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich added a ninth chapel.

3)It is officially named Cathedral of the Intercession of the Virgin.

4)Recently, St. Basil's Cathedral has suffered significant damage from weather and neglect. (So sad) It was not until the Millennium that funds were allocated to restore its foundations and flaking surfaces.

5)Although the towers and domes appear chaotic, there is symbolism in its design. There are eight domed chapels symbolizing the eight assaults on Kazan: four large and octagonal and four small and square. In the center is a tent-roofed spire topped with a small golden dome.

BIG BEN

1)Big Ben is the bell not the tower as many people think.

2)The tower was raised as a part of Charles Barry's design for a new palace, after the old Palace of Westminster was destroyed by fire on the night of 22 October 1834. So sad

3)The clock faces are large enough to have once allowed the Clock Tower to be the largest four-faced clock in the world, but have since been outdone by the Allen-Bradley Clock Tower in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

MOUNT RUSHMORE

1)The entire project cost US $989,992.32.

2)Originally, it was planned that the figures would be carved from head to waist, but insufficient funding forced the carving to end. Gutzon Borglum had also planned a massive panel in the shape of the Louisiana Purchase commemorating in eight-foot-tall gilded letters the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Louisiana Purchase, and seven other territorial acquisitions from Alaska to Texas to the Panama Canal Zone.

3)In a canyon behind the carved faces is a chamber, cut only 70 feet (21 m) into the rock, containing a vault with sixteen porcelain enamel panels. The panels include the text of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, biographies of the four presidents and Gutzon Borglum, and the history of the U.S. The chamber was created as the entranceway to a planned "Hall of Records"; the vault was installed in 1998.

GREAT PYRAMID & SPHINX
1)When newly completed, the Great Pyramid rose 146.7 m (481.4 ft)—nearly 50 stories high.


2)Many archaeologists and engineers now believe that the pyramid builders were not slaves, as was previously thought, but paid laborers who took great pride in their task. Most were probably farmers, contracted to work for a limited period. Specialists, who were permanently employed by the king, filled the positions that required the most skill—architects, masons, metalworkers, and carpenters.


3)To ensure that the pyramid remained symmetrical(same on both sides), the exterior casing stones all had to be equal in height and width. Workers marked all the blocks to indicate the angle of the pyramid wall and trimmed the surfaces carefully so that the blocks fit together. During construction the outer surface of the stone was left unfinished; excess stone was removed later.


3)The sides of all three of the Giza pyramids were astronomically oriented to be north-south and east-west within a small fraction of a degree



TEMPLE OF ZEUS

1)The Temple of Zeus at Olympia is an ancient Greek pagan temple, dedicated to the chief of the gods, Zeus. Built in 470-456 BCE, it was the very model of the fully-developed classical Greek temple of the Doric order.


2)The Roman general Mummius dedicated twenty-one gilded shields after he sacked Corinth in 146 BCE; they were hung upon the columns. In 426 CE, Theodosius II ordered the destruction of the sanctuary, and earthquakes in 522 and 551 devastated the ruins and left the Temple of Zeus partially buried.



3)Plan and Sculptural Program of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia: the temple was begun around 470. The construction was funded by the spoils of a local war between Elis and Pisa, whose defeat and destruction occurred about 470 B.C. The temple was apparently completed by 457 when a golden tripod was dedicated by the Spartans on the peak of the gable after their defeat of Athens in the battle of Tanagra in that year.



4)Originally there were 104 Corinthian columns of which only 15 remain standing. One of the columns actually blew down in a storm in 1852. Hadrian had erected a giant gold and ivory status of Zeus inside the temple with an equally large one of himself next to it.

I hope you enjoyed it. Bye