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there shant be any posts until further notice or unless someone decides to post
also, someone needs to take over for when im going to China

NOOOOO

Pancake died. :(
See him leaving this world here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bw4s4d7lAY&list=UUOtCbh2XvR--5tV74TmubDQ&feature=plcp

Words Of The Day! "A"

Avenge - To take vengeance
Abase - To degrade
Atrocity - Of great cruelness

WORD OF THE YEAR!

The Word of the Year has been announced!
Tergiversate, meaning to change one's opinion with respect to a cause

Others:
Zugzwang - A move in chess where you force the opponent into doing something bad
Insidious  - Stealthily
Austerity - strict or stern
Occupy - to take up a space/position
Oppugnancy - opposing
internecine - Of or pertaining to conflict or struggle within a group.
Quietus - anything that effectively ends or settles
Winning - charming / engaging
Spring - to come suddenly
Jobs - an employment
Bifurcating - to divide/fork into two branches
iconoclasm-  The action or spirit of a destroyer of images, especially those set up for religious veneration.
Schismatic - Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of division or disunion, especially into mutually opposed parties; guilty of division or disunion.
Topple - to overthrow
uprising - an insurrection or a revolt

Adsense!

As you may know, my Youtube enabled me for Adsense, which is a way to make money with ads on your websites and videos. You may have noticed the ads to the right and bottom. If you click on them, I get a fraction of a cent. Support moi!

Oh and you can't click on them repeatedly, Google isn't stupid.

Words Of The Day!

Procrastinate - Do things at the last possible moment
Churlish - rude
Plethora - a lot
Pungent - disgusting
Ennui - boredom
Concupiscence- Desire
Redeem - to obtain
Apotheosis - to change from a mortal to a god
Inundation - to flood

LAST DAY OF NOVEMBER!!!

PEOPLE OF 7H!!! TOMORROW IS THE LAST DAY OF NOVEMBER!!! FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO'S ONE STRIKE AWAY FROM WRITING THE SPEECH, YOU BETTER GET READY!!! EVEN IF IT MEANS WORKING TILL 3, COMPLETE ALL OF YOUR HOMEWORK!!! DON'T SCREW UP ON THE LAST DAY, PEOPLE. THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT OK GUYS?

Words Of The Day!

Some of these will help you in reading my memoir. :3

Coalesce - mix or combine
Frivolous- carelessly
Gobbledegook- balderdash
Balderdash - lies/excuses
Cornucopia - Variety
Impedimenta - belongings
Consternation - fear/hate/sorrow

good stuff

Words Of The Day!

Here are some words I dug up from my memory.

Frivolous- Careless
Vex- Anger
Meander- Sidestep
Turducken- Bird inside a bird
Lax- To be chill.
Taciturn- Quiet/Conceited
Usurp- Take
Pleonasm- Using multiple words for a simple thing
Circumlocution- Talk around the subject
Verbosity- Using fancy words

More to come

Jerry

Jerry I'm going to delete your previous posts.
You know why

Verbosity

Asseyez-vous Jerry.

Because I want everyone to be top notch writers, I'll have a word of the day to improve your vocab.
And anyone who wants to be a writer contact me, the more the better.

NEW FUNCTION!!!

I JUST DISCOVERED A NEW WAY TO SECRETLY COMMENT TO YUEYANG.

COMMENT THEN DELETE IT.

YUEYANG WILL BE ABLE TO SEE IT. NOT US.

MAKING IT VERY PRIVATE.

IT'S OVER 900(SADLY NO OTHER ZERO)!!!!!

WE'VE HIT 900 VIEWS!!!

YAY US!!!

IT TOOK US 2 MONTHS AND 15 DAYS

BUT LETS CELEBRATE!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The VENONA Project (Part 2)

Continuing off from before:

The VENONA Project was so secretive that not even presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman knew about it. But this project was of extreme importance during the beginning of the cold war. Most of the decoders were also female.

The project was initiated in 1943 by the orders of Carter Clarke, deputy Chief of military intelligence. As I've said before this was done because of the fear of a treaty between the Soviet Union (SN) and the 3rd Reich (Nazi Germany).

The messages were highly encrypted so they needed many decoders. After the first code break they found many signs of Soviet espionage. They had set up spies in the US, Canada(!!!), Australia and the UK. Many of the famous spies were Klaus Fuchs, Alan Nunn May and Donald Maclean.

Although it was terminated in 1980, materials about the actual project was not revealed until 1995 when senator Daniel Moynihan, the chairman of the Commission on Government Secrecy decided it was time.

Link to wikipedia page (VENONA project)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project

The VENONA Project(part 1)

I somehow randomly got a thought about this. I do not know how I thought of it, but I went on the internet and searched for it. I got a result from Wikipedia and decided to do this post on it. BTW, Wikipedia means wiki and -pedia(you can actually search Wikipedia on Wikipedia. Wiki is a Hawaiian word meaning quick and -pedia from encyclopedia.

The VENONA project was a secret collaboration of intelligence agencies between the US and the UK. They specialized in decrypting/decoding secret messages sent by the Soviet Union(basically Russia) for the US and UK feared of an alliance between them and Germany). This project was first started during WWII. There were minimally 13 code words that were used between the US and UK and VENONA was the last of them(it had no actual meaning). The project was terminated during 1980.

Action Movie

Me, David, and Nikita made an action movie.
If you would like to see it, click the link below
Note that it contains mild violence.
(Opens in a new window)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOmZkykX398&feature=channel_video_title

800 VIEWS!!!

WE MADE IT PAST 800 VIEWS!!!

WOOOOT!!!

WE ARE CLOSE TO 750 VIEWS :O

OMG OMG we are close to 750 views :D
LIKE A BAU5

MW3 or Battleshi-- Battlefield 3?

Well, we have been having an ongoing debate on whether Modern Warfare 3, the 8th installment in the Call of Duty franchise is better than Battleshi--Battlefield 3. I know, I know, I'm showing a lot of personal bias here, but seriously? You can't compare Battlefield to Call of Duty. THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT GAMES! Battlefield focuses on gameplay that involves working with your team mates more often. Whereas, in Call of Duty, the gameplay focuses on the sole player, in that they are giving the player customizable abilities that suit their gameplay style. Also, in Battlefield, from a gamer's point of view, the multiplayer maps are just too big. For people who are used to playing Call of Duty, and somehow ended up trying to play the beta, (kof* Me and Yueyang kof*) it's very hard to find a person in the map. And when you do, they end up killing you before you get a chance to kill them. In Call of Duty however, maps are just the right sizes for any weapon you choose to use.

In Call of Duty, there are many things that allow players to make themselves "pro" at the game. For example, quick scoping makes you feel like a bau5 when you do it, because mostly, that's what Major League Gamers do. (YES THERE IS AN MLG LEAGUE IN THE WORLD, OKAY?!) But in Battlefield, all you do is run around a gigantic map with all this equipment that you don't get to use. Coming from my point of view, as i have played both franchises, I believe that Call of Duty is the best first person shooter franchise between the two. Simply because of its elegant simplicity that allows players to do what they want when they want.

There is a reason why during high stakes game battles they always choose Call of Duty as the game to play. You don't see many game battles where they play Battlefield, do you?
Anyways, I've made my point. Feel free to disagree with me by creating another post stating why Battlefield is better.

Bulliez

Everybody been bullied, rite? How many of you fought back? Probably most of you people. However there is a plethora of ways to scrutinize a bully without dropping to that level yourself.

Let's classify bullies into 3 groups
Cy:cyberbullies
Phy: physical bullies
Psy: Psychological bullies

Cybers are basically bullies over da interwebz. Physical bullies bully you with shoving, punching, etc. And psychological bullies use insults and whatnot.
Here are some ways to get rid/deal with bullies.

Ignoring. Works against cyberbullies and some psychological bullies
Just ignore them. Not that people may want to supress you even more if you present a challenge, i.e ignoring them. Usually, though, it's good online.

Insult them. Not all the time, but when they're pushing your buttons, an insult to shun them back may work. This works against some cyberbullies and, if it's a good one, psychological bullies.

Tell an adult. This is the most widely known yet one of the least practiced. Just tell an adult. This works for most physical bullies, most psychological bullies, and some cyberbullies. Usually this gets them to stop but over the web they can easily make another proxy and Ip and account, etc.

Self-defense. This is useless for cyberbullies and bad for psychological bullies but this is good for physical bullies. Learn kung fu or tai kwan do or watch some movies. Remember to use it only when you need to.

A combo attack. A good idea is to first agitate them when they're not bullying you. Then you can plainly explain everything that they're doing (e.g. Now you're doing this to pathetically try to make me react). This will make you seem smart and confident. Then if they try to annoy you just take in what they say, ignore it, and keep on annoying them. Pat them on the head or tickle their chin. Anything to show that you think this is a game. Then, if they threaten or try to harm you, go tell on them. If executed properly hilarity will ensue.


Now go tell off some bullies like a boss!

Neglect

I know I've been neglecting this blog, mostly because I've been gaming like crazy, but now I'll be sure to pay more attention

Also, Jerry, tell more peeps about this

Should I continue using invisible font???

People. Should i continue to use invisible fonts???

I like it a lot. Comment whether i should or shouldn't.

Posting

Writers post something already

Random Facts Part 6

1. The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
2. The "L.L." in L.L. Bean stands for Leon Leonwood.
3. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
4. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
5. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
6. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
7. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
8. The moon is moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth every year. Do the math and you will clearly see that 85 million years ago it was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface. This would explain the death of the dinosours; the tallest ones, anyway.
9. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
10. The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator, Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."
11. The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
12. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
13. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. No one in Greece has memorized all 158 verses.
14. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.
15. The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age. Its name was Fred.
16. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
17. The only nation whose name begins with an "A" but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
18. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
19. The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly.
20. The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
21. The phrase, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging." Everything else was allowed, but the only way to be disqualified was to poke someone's eye out.
22. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
23. The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
24. The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
25. The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharaoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
26. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
27. The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
28. The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.
29. The saying "it's so cold out there it could freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from when they had old cannons like ones used in the Civil War. The cannonballs were stacked in a pyramid formation, called a brass monkey. When it got extremely cold outside they would crack and break off... thus the saying.
30. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello.
31. The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out.
32. The state of Florida is bigger than England.
33. The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."
34. The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
35. The United States Government keeps its supply of silver at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
36. The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
37. The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
38. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
39. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
40. The word "modem" is a contraction of the words "modulate, demodulate." (MOdulate DEModulate)
41. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
42. The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.
43. The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
44. There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
45. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.
46. There are over 52.6 million dogs in the U.S.
47. There are more chickens than people in the world.
48. There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
49. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
50. There are only thirteen blimps in the world. Nine of them are in the United States.

Random Facts Part 5

1. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
2. Playing cards were issued to British pilots in WWII. If captured, they could be soaked in water and unfolded to reveal a map for escape.
3. Polar Bears trying to blend in with the ice will sometimes cover up their black nose with their paws.
4. Pollsters say that 40 percent of dog and cat owners carry pictures of the pets in their wallets.
5. Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States.
6. Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours.
7. Reindeer like to eat bananas.
8. Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
9. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
10. Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
11. Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns.
12. Since 1896, the beginning of the modern Olympics, only Greece and Australia have participated in every Games.
13. Slugs have 4 noses.
14. Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
15. Some toothpaste's contain antifreeze.
16. Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
17. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
18. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
19. Sylvia Miles had the shortest performance ever nominated for an Oscar with "Midnight Cowboy." Her entire role lasted only six minutes.
20. Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.
21. The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
22. The average American drinks about 600 sodas a year.
23. The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
24. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.
25. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
26. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
27. The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night.
28. The average person laughs 15 times a day.
29. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
30. The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby daughter, Ruth.
31. The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella.
32. The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice.
33. The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
34. The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life".
35. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
36. The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National Convention in San Diego is the same firm that insured the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic.
37. The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500s.
38. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
39. The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
40. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
41. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
42. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
43. The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.
44. The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
45. The first toilet ever seen on television was on "Leave It To Beaver."
46. The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.
47. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
48. The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
49. The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
50. The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

Random Facts Part 4

1. It was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland.
2. It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
3. It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska.
4. It's against the law to catch fish with your bare hands in Kansas.
5. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Don't try this at home!)
6. Ivory bar soap floating was a mistake. They had been overmixing the soap formula causing excess air bubbles that made it float. Customers wrote and told how much they loved that it floated, and it has floated ever since.
7. John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.
8. "Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
9. Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI.
10. Lee Harvey Oswald's cadaver tag sold at an auction for $6,600 in 1992.
11. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
12. Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.
13. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
14. Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
15. Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom."
16. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its original size: "L.A."
17. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
18. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.
19. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
20. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
21. Millie the White House dog earned more than 4 times as much as President Bush in 1991.
22. Money isn't made out of paper, it's made out of cotton.
23. Montpelier, VT is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.
24. More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
25. More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
26. More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones.
27. Mosquitoes have teeth.
28. Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
29. Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
30. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
31. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
32. Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.
33. Murphy's Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
34. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
35. Non-dairy creamer is flammable.
36. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously
37. On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
38. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.
39. One in every 4 americans has appeared on television.
40. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 1930's lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not as chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.
41. One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet.
42. Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
43. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
44. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
45. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
46. Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
47. Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
48. Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
49. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
50. Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.

Random Facts Part 3

1. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason.
2. Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy.
3. Even if you cut off a cockroach's head, it can live for several weeks.
4. Every person has a unique tongue print.
5. Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
6. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
7. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
8. February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
9. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
10. Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung.
11. Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy. The skipper's real name on Gilligan's Island is Jonas Grumby. It was mentioned once in the first episode on their radio's newscast about the wreck.
12. Giraffes have no vocal cords.
13. Goethe couldn't stand the sound of barking dogs and could only write if he had an apple rotting in the drawer of his desk.
14. Hang On Sloopy is the official rock song of Ohio.
15. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
16. Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
17. Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks.
18. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
19. Hydroxydesoxycorticosterone and hydroxydeoxycorticosterones are the largest anagrams.
20. Hypnotism is banned by public schools in San Diego.
21. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
22. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
23. If NASA sent birds into space they would soon die; they need gravity to swallow.
24. If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
25. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
26. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
27. If your eyes are six feet above the surface of the ocean, the horizon will be about three statute miles away.
28. In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
29. In 1980, there was only one country in the world with no telephones - Bhutan.
30. In 1983, a Japanese artist made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of toast.
31. In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting ad space on his cows.
32. In 75% of American households, women manage the money and pay the bills.
33. In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals.
34. In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" were considered a dirty word.
35. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
36. In every episode of "Seinfeld" there is a Superman somewhere.
37. In Kentucky, 50 percent of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.
38. In Los Angeles, there are fewer people than there are automobiles.
39. In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.
40. In space, astronauts cannot cry, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.
41. In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile services (two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number the other channel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, but no channel 1.
42. In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.
43. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
44. In the movie "Casablanca," Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."
45. In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons.
46. In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
47. Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category.
48. It takes a lobster approximately seven years to grow to be one pound.
49. It takes about a half a gallon of water to cook macaroni, and about a gallon to clean the pot.
50. It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

Random Facts Part 2

1. Actor Tommy Lee Jones and former vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.
2. Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
3. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
4. All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
5. All porcupines float in water.
6. Almonds are a member of the peach family.
7. Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.
8. America once issued a 5-cent bill.
9. America's first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
10. Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.
11. An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.
12. An average person laughs about 15 times a day.
13. An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
14. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
15. Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy.
16. Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex.
17. Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
18. Aztec emperor Montezuma had a nephew, Cuitlahac, whose name meant "plenty of excrement."
19. Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under is cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings.
20. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
21. Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.
22. Back in the mid to late 1980's, an IBM-compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
23. Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
24. Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
25. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
26. Ben and Jerry's send the waste from making ice cream to local pig farmers to use as feed. Pigs love the stuff, except for one flavor: Mint Oreo.
27. Bird droppings are the chief export of Nauru, an island nation in the Western Pacific.
28. Blueberry Jelly Bellies were created especially for Ronald Reagan.
29. Bubble gum contains rubber.
30. Camel's milk does not curdle.
31. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
32. Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
33. Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.
34. Cats can produce over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs can only produce about ten.
35. Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
36. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
37. Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
38. Cleo and Caesar were the early stage names of Cher and Sonny Bono.
39. Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
40. David Prowse was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
41. Did you know that there are coffee flavored PEZ?
42. Dogs and cats consume almost $7 billion worth of pet food a year.
43. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
44. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
45. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
46. Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."
47. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
48. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
49. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
50. Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he might be retarded.

Random Facts Part 1

1. 1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S.
2. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die throughout the movie.
3. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
4. 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
5. 123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways.
6. 160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
7. 166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S.
8. 27% of U.S. male college students believe life is "A meaningless existential hell."
9. 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled.
10. 5% of Canadians don't know the first 7 words of the Canadian anthem, but know the first 9 of the American anthem.
11. 56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year.
12. 7% of Americans don't know the first 9 words of the American anthem, but know the first 7 of the Canadian anthem.
13. 85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S.
14. 99% of the solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.
15. A 10-gallon hat barely holds 6 pints.
16. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
17. A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off.
18. A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
19. A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person.
20. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
21. A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
22. A fully loaded supertanker travelling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
23. A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
24. A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
25. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
26. A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there.
27. A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average.
28. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
29. A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
30. A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
31. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
32. A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
33. A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.
34. A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 6 years. Wow.
35. A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
36. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.
37. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
38. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
39. A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
40. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
41. A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove.
42. A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
43. A skunk can spray its stinky scent more than 10 feet.
44. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
45. A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!
46. A walla-walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background -- when they say "walla-walla" it looks like they are actually talking.
47. A whale's penis is called a dork.
48. About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30.
49. About 70% of Americans who go to college do it just to make more money. [The rest of us are avoiding reality for four more years.]
50. According to a British law passed in 1845, attempting to commit suicide was a capital offense. Offenders could be hanged for trying.

BANANAS!!!

Did you know that our modern day bananas, which are called dessert or Cavendish bananas, did not exist until 1836? Our bananas right now are very different from the wild bananas that are green with only it's seeds being edible. After a couple hundreds of year, those bananas slowly developed into what is know as the cooking banana or plantain. Those bananas were green and red and they had to be cooked before they can be eaten. During the year 1836, the Jamaican Jean Francois Poujot found one of the banana trees he owned was bearing yellow bananas. Those yellow bananas were sweeter and doesn't have to be cooked to be eaten. And so he started to breed just that one type of bananas and sent it to other banana farmers to grow. This is how our modern day banana grew.

Pre-Setting the locks

I've heard from people that they preset their locks, either they preset the first number or the furst two numbers. I think the most risky and efficient way is to preset everything. Just pull and it's open. There will be a very small chance that it is going to be opened by some other guy, because who will go around school and pull on people's locks?! If you want to be more safe, the preset the first two numbers. Just turn to the third number and it's opened. It's pointless to just preset one, so either two or three. It's a good way to do this between classes or right after lunch. (DISCLAIMER!!!I hold no responsibility for anybody that gets detention, sent to office, suspended, expelled, beaten up, executed, or any way he or she is being assaulted both physically and emotionally.)

Music Clubs

Ms Kin and Mr Dody are welcoming any students who're interested in the following:

Chamber Strings

Senior Strings

Band Ensemble

Choir

They will need you commitment as there will be weekly rehearsals and you will need to work very hard. Please sign up by the Strings/Band music doors. Rehearsal times will be announced the next week.

Melon Cutting

On the pale green melons, it seems like only the skin needs to be cut off. Instead, about a cm of the inside also needs to be sliced off for disposal.

Procrastination

Procrastination FTW eh? Jerry shall be a writer now. HOWEVAH, I need his email.

Fate & Destiny

Because of Jerry, I'll post the difference between fate and destiny

Fate : Something that unavoidably befalls a person; the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed; the decreed cause of events


Destiny : something that is to happen or has happened to a particular person or thing; the predetermined, usually inevitable or irresistible, course of events.


Basically, Fate is what is going to happen to a person of a thing, Destiny is what a person/thing is supposed to/ going to do. For example, your fate is to die, while your destiny may be to succeed.

Largest Animals Part 1

Sorry for not updating.

So, moving on, the lion's mane jellyfish is potentially the worlds most frightening and intimidating jellyfish.
Why? We-e-e-ell, it's just the largest species of jellyfish in the world! The "head" of the thing measures 7 feet 6 inches average, which is almost 2 feet longer than a horizontal Mr.Romas!

This guy belongs to a group of prestigious animals called the "Largest Organism" which is a group of the largest organism (derp) of a species of animal.

Largest Mammal : Blue Whale

Largest Carnivore : Southern Elephant Seal

Largest Whale: Blue (Baleen) Whale

Largest Bat : Giant Golden-Crowned Flying Fox

Largest Armadillo : Giant Armadillo (Derp)

Hedgehogs + Gymnures : Greater Moonrat

Bunnies : Flemish Giant

Marsupials : Red Kangaroo

Anteaters : Giant Anteater (derp)

Primates : Gorilla

Elephants : Hoe Tusker

Rodents : Capybara

Aardvark : Aardvark

Reptiles : Saltwater Crocodile

Lizards + Snakes : Green Anaconda

Turtles : Leatherback Sea Turtle

Dinosaurs : Sauropoda





Heaviest Living Mammals

Think you're over weight? Well check these guys out.

Blue Whale : Av. 110000 kg

North Pacific Right Whale : Av. 60000 kg

Southern Right Whale : 58000 kg

Plus, the maximum mass a Blue Whale can grow to is around 190000 kg
o_O

Part 2 coming soon

Coincidence PART 3! :D

Since people wanted it more than Tesla (Sorry dude) I'm making more coincidence articles!

There were two Finnish identical twins, who were killed in the same accident on the same road doing the same thing 2 hours apart. Now this isn't mind-blowing, but it's strange.

In 1975 on a street in Bermuda, a man was crossing the street. He was hit and killed by a moped ( this bike thingy). One year later, the mans brother was killed in the same street, the same moped, the same driver, and the same PASSENGER. o_O

Joseph Aigner was a portrait painter in the 1900s in Austria who was quite depressed. He tried multiple times to commit suicide but was always saved by a Capuchin monk. At age 18, he tried to hang himself, but the monk saved him. At age 22 he tried to hang himself again but the monk saved him a second time. At age 30 he was sentenced to the gallows, pretty much signing his death contract. The monk interfered and convinced him to be released. At age 68, Aigner managed to do it, a pistol doing the trick. His funeral was conducted by...you guessed it, the same Capuchin monk.

In 1953, television reporter dude Irv Kupcinet was covering a big scoop - the coronation of Elizabeth II. He found some items that belonged to a certain Harry Hannin. Hannin was a famous basketball guy from the Harlem Globetrotters and Kupcinet knew him well. Before he could tell Hannin that he found his stuff, Hannin told Kupcinet that he had found Kupcinet's tie the same day!

In the late 1950s, George D. Bryson checked into a hotel while on a business trip. He was given room 307 and, after getting the key, checked the mail office to see if he had received any letters. There was a letter addressed to 307 to George D. Bryson. Apparently it was for the previous owner of the room, a man named George D.Bryson!

Two twins John and Arthur Mowforth lived about 80 miles apart in Great Britain. On the same day, the evening of May 22, 1975, both were severely ill from chest pains. Their families had no idea that they were sick, both were rushed to hospitals at around the same time, both died of heart attacks shortly after at the same time.

That's all I know, what series should I do next?

Nikola Tesla Part 2

So, moving on, Tesla was always conducting crazy experiments that resulted in catastrophe. One time he was studying magnetic resonance. He discovered the resonant frequency of the Earth and built a machine to harness it. It caused an earthquake so dangerous that it almost destroyed his 5th Avenue New York building in which he was conducting experiments on. When the cops were coming, Tesla had to smash his machine to prevent it from destroying his street. He later bragged that he could split the Earth in two, which is untrue, but back then nobody dared question him. Some time later, Tesla began the construction of the Wardenclyffe Tesla Tower, which is a curiously shaped building which would house the biggest Tesla coil in the world. It was supposed to wirelessly transmit power, and it was taken into consideration as the cause of the 1908 Tunguska explosion, when an unidentified source/object equal to ten megatons of blast rocketed the wastelands above Central Russia. It obliterated and deforested pretty much everything in sight for at least several hundred miles. And, to think, this guy could potentially detonated something 1000 times more powerful than Hiroshima before the submachine gun was even thought of.
Some time even later, Tesla made the first hydroelectric power plant by harnessing the rushing waters of Niagara Falls. Made a bath that cleans you with nothing but electricity, and set a world record for creating a 130 foot long bolt of lightning. But all stuff aside, his most epic invention was the Atomic Death Ray. Sometime in the 1920s he claimed that he was working on a tower that could spew a bunch of ionized particles in a beam that could disintegrate aircraft from 200 miles away. It could also wipe out a bunch of people in the blink of an eye. Luckily, Tesla died in 1940 before the thing was built, and there is no hard evidence that he was planning on making one, as most of his contraptions existed only in his awesome brain. Just to be safe, the FBI confiscated all of his stuff after he died and locked it away.
You ever heard of Thomas Edison? Well, he was actually competing against this guy. Thomas used direct currents, leading to the invention of the light bulb, and Tesla used alternate currents, leading to the main power source for pretty much every electronic in your home (even lightbulbs now). Unfortunetly, the fight between Tesla and Edison ended with both getting kicked out of the Nobel Prize committee.
To sum it up, Tesla was the thin line between a great scientific mind and mentally insane. At the time of his death, he had 700 patents, making breakthroughs in physics, robotics, steam turbine engineering, electricity, and magnetism. He once melted his assistants hand by spamming it with X-rays. And, to be honest, Tesla is just about the only dude who could single handedly blow up all of our minds with incredible scientific discoveries. The end, and you're welcome.

Nikolai Tesla Part 1

There were lots of super awesome people in this world. Me, for example. :3
However, almost nobody can compare to this ultra eccentric insane scientific super genius known as Nikolai Tesla. If you see him, you will literally explode into rubix cubes. (Nah I lied) He was Croatian born, an engineer, and he spoke 8 languages. Here is when the awesome jumps in. He almost single handedly harnessed electricity for household use. He invented FM radio, electrical generators, robots, remote control, florescent lights, spark plugs, and these giant machines that shoots lightning bolts all over the place. This guy had a flawless photographic memory and can even memorize the most complex pieces of machinery. He could do advanced calculus and physics in his head alone, he memorized entire books at a time, and he managed to succeed in experiments modern day science still couldn't pull off. Jealous yet? There's more. In 2007 the less awesome people at MIT got all excited when they wirelessly transmitted energy for an amazing 7 feet through the air. Nikolai, however, will probably laugh at these puny children. He once lit 200 lightbulbs from a power source 26 miles away, with a machine he made from spare parts in the desert. This happened in 1899. Umad?
Unfortunetly, there's always a bad side. Tesla was considered mental by some of his peers. He had nervous breakdowns, claimed to experience visions in the middle of the night, spoke to birds, and he occasionally said that he received electromagnetic signals from people on Mars.  He had OCD, (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and he hated round things, jewelry, human hair, and anything that cannot be divisible by 3. To sum it up, Nikolai was the ultimate mad scientist. BUT WAIT! There's even more...

Coincidence Part 2

MOAR COINCIDENCES!

Epic Porsche
In Sept. of 1955, a man named James Dean was killed in a terrible car crash in his Porsche (A sports car). Then people said it's bad luck.
When the car was being towed away, the engine slipped out and broke both of the mechanic's legs. The engine was then bought by a doctor, who put it inside his racing car. He died from a horrific car crash in that car. Another man died too, which was curious because HIS car had the Porsche's drive shaft.
After the Porsche was repaired, the garage of the repair crew burned down.
Then, in Sacremento, the car was on display. The car fell off the mount and broke a teenager's hip.
The trailer that the Porsche was carried in to the show slipped off and smashed the front of a shop.
Finally, in 1959, the car suddenly shattered into 11 pieces while it was on steel supports. Nobody knew how this happened.

Baby Fail
Somewhere in Detroit, in the 1930s, a guy named Joseph Figlock was walking down the street. A BABY fell out of the window on the third story and Joseph broke it's fall. Nobody was hurt.
An exact year later, unsuspecting Joseph was walking beneath the same building when the same baby fell out of the same window and again, nobody was hurt.

A Bullet's Destiny
Henry Ziegland was a lucky man. He broke up with his girlfriend, who, in dismay, killed herself. Her brother sought revenge, and shot Henry. He then shot himself out of guilt. Apparently, the bullet didn't even hit Henry. It grazed him and went into a nearby tree. A couple years later, Ziegland decided to cut down the tree, but he found out that dynamite would be more awesome. He blew up the tree, the bullet got blown out, and it lodged itself right into Ziegland's head. He died.

James and James
2 identical twins were born in Ohio. They were adopted by two differant families, now is where the weird part starts.
Both were named James.
Both sought law enforcement training.
Both were good at mechanical drawing and carpentry.
Both married someone called Linda.
Both had sons, one was named James Alan and the other James Allan.
Both divorced.
Both married a new wife called Betty.
Both had dogs named Toy.
40 years later, they reunited and discovered how similar their lives had been.

Unsuspecting Tipoff
Norman Mailer was an author. When he was working on his book Barbary Shore, he came up with an idea of a Russian spy in the US as a character. Soon the spy became more dominant in the novel, and Norman proudly finished his work. After the novel was published, U.S Immigration Service arrested the man who lived one floor above Mailer in the same apartment building. The guy was the top Russian spy in the US at that time.

Train
3 guys on a train. They started talking. One guy's name was Powell. Anothers was Bingham. The last one was Powell-Bingham. They weren't related and didn't know about each other.

21 is Unlucky
King Louis XVI was warned when he was a kid. An astrologer told him to be on guard on the 21st day of each month. He never did business on the 21st, but soon his guard went down. During the French Revolution, on June 21st 1791, Louis and his queen were arrested in Varennes. On September 21st, 1791, France became a republic. There goes the king status. On January 21st 1793 Louis XVI was killed by the guillotine.


Comment with what you think, or if you want to see more!

Google

Branches of google.
Try em all!




bigbluesearch.com - blue Google 

bigyellowsearch.com - yellow Google 

blackle.com - black and stylish version of Google 

bluegoogle.com 


caliorange.com 



darkoogle.com 


dinoogle.com - dinosaur themed Google 


donttypelikethis.com - annoying Google types like ThIs 


elgoog.com (mirror Google) 


emogoogle.com - Google for emo fashion kids 


Epicgoogle.com - enlarging Google 


givoogle.com - a search that saves energy (at least that's how they say) 


gizoogle.com - animated Google 


Google loco 


Google rainbow 


Google.bearshare.com bear Google 


Google.com - normal Google 


Google.com/Linux - Linux Google 


Google.com/logos - Google logos 


Google.com/webhp?hl=xx-hacker - Google in web language(a.k.a. hacker language) 


Google.com/webhp?hl=xx-klingon - klingon Google 


Google.com/webhp?hl=xx-piglatin - piglatin Google 


googlegothic.com 


googleloco.com 


googoth.co.in - goth Google 


gothle.com 


helpuu.com - helping starving kids Google 


isearchpink.com 


mysterygoogle.com 


ninja.com - ninja Google 


oranjoogle.com 


packman Google 


pinkgoogle.com - pink Google 


purpoogle.com - background screen is a dark pinkish-purple 


rainbowgoogle.com - colorful Google 


scenegoogle.com - Google for scene fashion kids 


scenekidgoogle.com 


thatsloco.com - bouncing Google 


weeniegoogle.com - reducing Google 
 
yellowgoogle.com

Google Doodle

Check out the rad google doodle today!

Dreams

Dreams
Written by: Jessie
Edited by: Yueyang

Fine...

 

 

Dreams are strange. They say the more you think about a topic, the more likely you will dream about it. That's not really true. It's actually what you think of deep down in your mind....For example, Jerry thinks about pencils all day long. But, he has a crush on Shu Yan. (Kidding. Just needed to make an example) He doesn't usually think about her, but at night, he would dream about her because he likes her.

So, you can never really be sure of what you dream. If you try really hard not to think about.... A scary thing, for example, you might just end up dreaming about it....

At least.... That's my theory...

There are many different types of dreams. Some are humourous, some are sad.... And some are scary enough to be made into their own scary movie. Sometimes, there even seems to be a continuation of things that you dreamed before. Now, there are things called nightmares. Different people think different things are scary and terrifying. For example, some peoples nightmares are very gory and violent. My nightmares are just things that frustrate me alot. Or about people I love dying. Or something violent.

Now comment and discuss your dreams.

(Editors note: Leave personal stuff out of this.)

New Writer

Since my writer is completely useless for the time being, I'm considering a new writer. Who wants to be one?

A. Lincoln and J.F.Kennedy

Ask your history teacher to debunk this.
A.Lincoln VS J.F.Kennedy
Both had 7 letters in their last name
Both were over 6 feet
Both studied law
Both had lazy eye muscles
Both had genetic diseases
Both served in the military
Both were boat captains
Both had no fear of mortality
Kennedy stated, "If somebody wants to shoot me from a window with a rifle, nobody can stop it"
Lincoln stated, "If somebody wants to take my life, there is nothing I can do to prevent it"
Both statements happened, both had the same number of words.
Both died on a Friday from a gunshot wound to the head
Both had their wives beside them when they were shot
Lincoln died in box 7 of Ford's Theater. Kennedy rode in car 7 of the Dallas motorcade.
Lincoln died in Ford's Theater, Kennedy died in a Ford Limousine
Both funerals were pretty much the same. (Kennedy's wife asked it to be)
Both assassins used 3 names
Both assassins had 15 letters
Both assassins lacked a father for a role model
Both assassins had 2 brothers which they envied
Both assassins were privates in the military
Both assassins were born in the south
Both assassins supported the enemies of the USA
Both assassins used aliases
Booth shot Lincoln at a theater and was cornered at a warehouse.
Oswald shot Kennedy at a warehouse and was cornered in a theater.
Each assassin was detained by a cop named Baker
Both assassins died from a single shot from a Colt revolver
Both assassins were shot in a flash of light
Both presidents were named after their grandfathers
Both were born second children
Both married in their thirties
Both married dark haired, 24 year old women
Both wives died at the age of around 64
Both wives had high fashion in clothes
Both wives renovated the White House
Each couple had 4 children, both of them lost 2 before they reached teenager status
Each couple lost a son while in the White House
Both were elected to House Of Representitives in 1946
Both were elected to the presidency in 1960


Coincidence? :]

Coincidence! o_O

Coincidences happen, whether something related to your conversation happens on cue or something plain strange happens. Here's some strange and mysterious coincidences.
Mark Twain was born on an appearance of Halley's Comet. He predicted that he'll die the next time it came. He was right.

In 1979, there was a writing competition that had to be based on real things. This guy named Walter Kellner won, with a story of him flying a Cessna 421 between Sardina and Sicily. He had engine problems, landed in the sea, and got rescued. Another dude called Walter Kellner called shenanigans, claiming plagiarism. He said he was flying a Cessna 421 over the same sea, with engine problems, but he landed in Sardina just in time. Both stories were true.

This is a well known one. Morgan Robertson wrote a novel called Futility in 1898 about a ship called the Titan crashing into an iceberg en route to New York and many dying because there weren't enough lifeboats. This actually happened except with a slightly differant name, the Titanic.
PLUS: She also wrote a novel called Beyond the Spectrum, which features sun bombs, bombs enough to blind anyone who looks at it and contains massive power. It starts with a surprise Japanese attack on Hawaii. The war is supposed to start in December of 2006. Fail

On July 28 1900, the Italian king Umberto I was having dinner at a restaurant. The restaurant owner was called Umberto, he looked extremely similar like Umberto, his wife had the same name as the queen, and the restaurant opened the same day as the kings inauguration. Umberto and Umberto were both shot dead the next day.

Claude Volbonne killed Baron Rodemire de Tarazone of France in 1872. After 21 years, the Baron's dad was killed by someone called Claude Volbonne.

A couple people in Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire were watching a scene in the film Around the World in 80 days, where a hot air balloon was taking off. Then the TV crashed as a hot air balloon collided with the power lines nearby.

A British cop called Major Summerfield, fought in Flanders Fields in 1918 where lightning hit him and he was paralyzed from waist down. He retired and moved to Vancouver. In 1924, he was hit by lightning again, paralyzing his right side. 2 years later he recovered and was walking in a park where he was struck by lightning AGAIN, permanently paralyzing him. He died 2 years later. Four years after his burial, lightning struck his tombstone. Shocking, eh?

A really long one is coming up.

2012

We're screwed, on Dec.21.
Here's some of the facts
MAIN CAUSES OF 2012 (Most believed)
Niburu, or Planet X, collides with Earth. (Niburu is 4x bigger, as people say). No scientific evidence.
End of the Mayan Calender. Strange, a calender for millenniums ends at 2012. No proof that a calender will blow us up, though.
Precession: Every year the sun moves across the sky, and every 25800 years something called precession happens. The sun is actually going backwards across the sky 1 degree every 72 years. In 25800 years, the sun moves 360 degrees back. This is just nice to know. :]
2012 marks the end of the degenerate age of the god Vishnu (Bhagavan)
Alignment of the sun, earth, and the supermassive black hole in our galaxy means certain death.
Geomagnetic reversal, which switches the north and south poles, releasing an energy equal to around 100 billion atomic bombs, screwing us over. Critics say they take 7000 years to complete and they can start whenever.

Do some research, find out more about why the world is (not) going to end.

Hell, Norway

Norway is an awesome country. However, there's a certain town thats...a bit strange. Enter Hell. Hell is usually a minor tourist spot because of it's name, and the town itself has around 1418 people, and the town is 1.48 sq kilometers. Hell has a grocery store, restaurant, retirement home, etc, making it no less than other towns with less awesome names. The origin of the name comes from an Old Norse word called "Hellir" which means overhang or cliff. The Norwegian word Hell means "luck". The Norwegian word for Hell is hellvete. In the winter, temperatures reach -20 C in the winter. Postcards and tourists make a visual joke about "Hell frozen over". The train station is called Hell Station, and is currently active. Plus, there's music festivals in Hell.
Mona Grudt, Miss Universe of 1990, listed herself as "The beauty Queen from Hell" as part of a publicity stunt.

Other cool names are : F*cking, Austria, (Where the * is replaced with an u) Condom, Gers (France), and Truth or Consequences, Mexico.

Did you know that El Pueblo Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula is a state in the USA? Guess which!

Boo

WARNING: This contains content not for the faint of heart. Turn away if you are easily grossed out.
Written by: Jessie
Edited by: Yueyang

Boo

They say that every school has a legend. At night, the eyes of statues in front of the school will move. There will be twelve steps in the hallways, but at night, there will be thirteen.... The lights will not be on, even if you turn on the switch.... The faucets will drip blood, and sometimes an organ will fall out.... And if you go the washroom, you'll never come back.

Now, these kids didn't believe that....

"Oh, it's probably just a story..." They thought. So the all met together one night in front of the school. They looked at the statue. It's eyes were facing left, as always. "Hah, it's just a story." They thought. Then they went up to the school. There was a old night watchman in front of the school. "Don't go in...." He warned them, but they just laughed.

They first counted the stairs. "One, two, three....... Ten, eleven, twelve." "Hah," They thought, "It's just a story...."

Next they went to the faucets. They opened them and water gushed out. "Hah, it's just a story..." They thought. The light was opened, and soon they were ready to go home. However.....

One girl said, "I'll stay for a bit, you guys can go..."

The next day began with frantic phone calls. The mother of the girl who stayed was worried because her daughter didn't come home. The children told their parents what happened, and they rushed to the school to meet the principal.

At the school, the kids screamed as they saw the statue. It's eyes were facing the right. "They were facing the left last night!" They screamed.

Next came the stairs. "One, two, three..... Eleven, twelve, thirteen...." The kids screamed,"It was twelve last night!"

Then were the faucets. They all held their breaths as the principal turned them on. Blood gushed out of the faucets as a large liver plopped into the basin. They all screamed.

The came the search for the girl. The found her hanging, dead, in a bathroom stall.

"When we came last night, we turned the lights on and everything was normal!" The kids cried. "Lights...?" he adults gasped in horror, "There was a blackout last night..."

The kids cried, "We should have listened to the night watchman...."

"What?" The principal asked, "There is no night watchman...."

The End

Aspergers Syndrome

As some of you know, Shawn in our class has Aspergers Syndrome. It's a form of autism that affects the cognitive development and language. Basically people with aspergers are interested in unique things, and usually use atypical and formal language. The exact cause is unknown, so please don't make fun of Shawn, because it's not his fault he's off topic/ ununderstanding.

Writers Block

Ten, you better actually post something or there's no point of you being a writer...

Criminals who actually managed to get away

Nowadays, with trained policemen, CCTV, fingerprint scanners, DNA evidence, CSi, being a successful criminal is almost impossible. However, there are rare events where crime does pay, and the criminals made off with valuable stuff.

The French Vacuum Gang

All the way back in 2006, a couple of French robbers exploited a weakness in the way a store called the "Monoprix" stored it's cash. It had tubes that flushed the money into the safe. The safe is good, but the tubes were not. The vacuum gang broke in and drilled into a tube. Then they hooked up a vacuum into the tube, and sucked up all the cash instead. As of 2011, they made off with 800000$ and the only CCTV tapes were a couple of blurry masked dudes. o_O

Credit Lyonnais Paris Heist

On March 30, 2010, burglars got into the Credit Lyonnais bank in central Paris, and emptied over 100 safety deposit boxes, and got away with millions of euros and valuables. The burglars tunneled into the basement from a parallel cellar, and got inside with a thermal cutter. They tied up the guard and told him not to move. This section was closed for renovations. For a couple hours, they ransacked the bank, and set it on fire.

The sprinklers went off, and the tied up guard managed to raise the alarm. The thieves got away, and probably will get away for good because, well, the fire got rid of all the evidence. The whole operation took 9 hours.

Paris Modern Art Fail

Simple stuff, a burglar broke into a window of the Paris Modern Art Museum (Which, surprisingly, had no alarms) and made off with around 100 million euros worth in masterpieces such as Picasso and Matisse.

Albert Spaggiari

(Taken from an article)

Albert Spaggiari was a French career criminal who is best known for masterminding the Societe Generale bank robbery in France, 1976. As a young man he committed his first robbery in order to impress his girlfriend, but was soon captured and imprisoned. After his release and having served in the French military, Spaggiari became the owner of a photographic studio and was making a reasonable living as a law-abiding citizen. However, he apparently became bored with his middle-class life and sought to return to a life of crime.

He began to plan a break-in at the Societe Generale Bank, in Nice. He decided that, since the bank vault was located in the basement, the break-in would best be achieved by digging underneath from a nearby sewer system. He opened a box for himself and placed a loud alarm clock inside, setting it to go off at midnight in order to check for the existence any acoustic or seismic detectors that might foil his plan. In fact, the bank vault had no interior alarm or security systems, as it was considered utterly impenetrable.

Spaggiari then recruited a group of professional gangsters from Marseille to help him dig the tunnel. He instructed them to never drink coffee or alcohol, and always to get at least 10 hours sleep every day to avoid danger to the mission. After two months of digging, the tunnel was finished, and, during a Bastille Day festival when the bank was closed for a long weekend, the gang broke into the vault, itself. They opened up over 400 safety deposit boxes, stealing over 60million francs worth of money, securities and other valuables.

When the robbery was discovered, the following message was found on the vault wall: “sans armes, ni maine, ni violence” which is translated as: “without weapons, nor hatred, nor violence”. At first police were baffled, however, in the following months they arrested one suspect on a tip from a former girlfriend. The man later admitted being a part of the robbery and ratted out the entire gang, including Spaggiari. During his trial, however, Spaggiari managed to escape by distracting the judge, by handing him a fake piece of encoded evidence. He jumped out of the window, where a motorcycle was waiting for him and made his getaway.

He was never caught and the loot from the heist was never found. He died at the age of 52 of throat cancer, and his body was found dumped outside his mother’s house, presumably by unknown friends.