December 30, 2008

Author: Short Stories for Teachers at www.eslteachersboard.com

Many professional writers and editors lament that the English language is being obliterated by the casual use of more symbolic language on mobile devices and some social media internet sites. They cite two main grievances, which are that casual writing formats are showing up where formal writing sty…

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Author: Short Stories for Teachers at www.eslteachersboard.com

Tyrannosaurus Rex was a very large theropod dinosaur. It was a carnivore (meat eater) and lived in North America and Asia right at the end of the Cretaceous period between 67 million and 65 million years ago. It was one of the last dinosaurs, and along with all other remaining dinosaurs, became exti…

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Pachycephalosaurus was an herbivorous (plant eating) dinosaur that lived in North America. It inhabited this region during the late Cretaceous period, between about 76 million and 65 million years ago, and was one of the dinosaurs which died out in the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction. Pachycephalosau…

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The investigations that led to the development of quantum mechanics began in the mid 1800s. It started as a simple inquiry as to why heated objects glowed in different colors. This became a field of research investigating "black body" radiation. It centered on the study of light and the final conclu…

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Ice sheets first appeared on Antarctica about 30 million years ago. These sheets continually flow from the Antarctic interior outwardly like a gently flowing river toward the ocean. As the glacial movement reaches the coast the glacier tends to break off due to gravity, waves, current, and tides. Al…

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When most people hear the name Einstein, the next thought is usually his famous equation, E=mc2. Believe it or not, Einstein’s Nobel Prize was not awarded for this revolutionary discovery, but for his lesser known paper on the Photo-Electric Effect also published in the same year. A good deal of the…

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December 24, 2008

Author: Short Stories for Teachers at www.eslteachersboard.com

I believe that children will live up to whatever standards you set for them as a teacher, as a mentor, as an adviser, but most especially, as an older ‘friend’ who truly cares about their success, not just in school, but most especially in the outside world. This, I believe is the true essence of a …

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December 22, 2008

Author: Short Stories for Teachers at www.eslteachersboard.com

The digital revolution? High def? If these buzzwords and catchphrases seem little more than babbled jargon, then the concept of plasma technology must seem as complicated as longdivision whilst blindfolded and listening to The Rites of Spring. Well, it doesn’t need to be, and this article aims to …

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The earliest known use of ink occurred in China approximately 5,000 years ago, when artists used soot, gelatin from animal skins, and lamp oil to develop a black ink used to colour the raised surfaces of pictures and text carved in stone. In medieval Europe, scribes usually used parchment rather tha…

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December 12, 2008

Author: Adam Maxwell’s Fiction Lounge – Stories Feed

Christmas with the in-laws can be a trying time for anyone let alone if you wife is stupifyingly drunk and you destroy the presents…

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