Monday 1 February 2010
It is a miracle that CURIOSITY survives formal education.
Albert Einstein
(1879-1955, German-born American Physicist )
- John Logie Baird: The inventor of the television transmitted the first long distance images from a room at the Central Hotel in Glasgow.
- The Edinburgh castle was built on an extinct volcano.
- Ireland has won the Nobel prize for literature on four occasions with George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney.
- The famous Titanic ship was built in Belfast.
- John Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the U.S.A.was born in Massachusetts in 1917. The Kennedy family were descendants of Irish emigrants to the U.S.A. in the nineteenth century.
- Ethnic Groups of Canada - British Isles origin 28%, French origin 23%, other European 15%, Amerindian 2%, other, mostly Asian, African, Arab 6%, mixed background 26%
- What's acrophobia? fear of heights or high places
- And moodle? Did you know that it means to pass time in doing nothing?
That's all for now! Bye.
The four Irish Literature Nobel Prizes
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3 comentários:
Dear Teacher Lígia Silva;
No, I don´t known that!
thanks for the knowledge!
acrophobia --> high places!
see you on class...
Learning cn also be fun, don't you think?
Thanks for the comments.
See you in class
xx
Dear Teacher Lígia Silva ;
Learning cn also be fun, don't you think?
yes,I think too.
See you in class...
:D
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