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Week 6: Boston’s Molasses Flood

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one of the strangest disasters in history happened at 1241 p m on january 15 1919

uri and me quick learned some back ground information about a unusual flood in boston massachusetts

the purity distilling corporation stored millions of gallon of molasses in a huge tank on the boston water front

on january 14 the milero a american ship added 600000 gallons to the tank of molasses

suddenly exploded with a noise like the sound of a thousand machine guns my newspaper gave a similar description

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a flood of molasses trapped who ever was in its path twenty one people died and many others were hurt

days later the boston fire department was still pumping molasses out of homes

just imagine wheat a video tape of that would have looked like uncle sol said

last august uncle sol said i and irma goed to boston for two or three days

aunt irma added on very hot days i was told any one on certain beachs can still smell molasses

Week 7: Japanese Americans

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mrs ito said both of my brothers in law is nisei these are u s citizens whose parents born in japan

both of theyre families she said moved from nagoya japan to honolulu hawaii one february

then i said at the turn of this century the japanese maked up thirtynine percent of the population of hawaii

mrs ito said yes grandfather yamasaki learned me to play the game of go at that time

during world war ii many japanese american families were forced to live in detention camps in the west

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i can name only some of them camps manzanar in california topaz in utah and granada in colorado

in 1988 president ronald reagan formally apologize to a japanese americans for their unfair detention during world war ii

on october 9 1990 rev eto received his formal apology and a check for $20000

holly said last friday evening takao learned a friend and i how to eat with chopsticks

then she laughed and said it was hard though because im a lefthanded person and takao is not

Week 8: Heat

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today said ms houde were going to discuss heat and temperature theyre not the same thing you know

then ms houde continued molecules in motion creates heat and temperature is a measure of the heat

wont heat travel from hot things to cooler ones asked ramon

yes it travels in one of three ways by conduction by convection or by radiation i said

then heidi asked whats the difference among good conductors of heat and poor conductors

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heat travels quick through good conductors said uncle bart and slow through poor conductors

ms houde said the heat from this here fire ramon isnt reaching we campers through conduction

youre feeling radiant heat her says late last saturday night

yes im the one whos got an old steam radiator said aun ida

then she added these kind of things heat we through convection not through radiation

Week 9: Gutzon Borglum, Sculptor of Mt. Rushmore

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we americans are certainly indebted to gutzon borglum the sculptor said grandma jones

she added yes mount rushmore would be less interesting without his carvings

borglum began carving president washington president jefferson president t roosevelt and president lincoln in the summer of 1924

then i asked didn’t he calmly work from a chair suspended from the top of the cliff

my daughter jess said certainly borglums style is strong not subtle each face on mt rushmore is sixty feet high

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borglums project took fourteen years and it was finished by his son on october 31 1941

lajos asked i didn’t eleanor roosevelt want susan b anthonys face carved on mt rushmore

peoples have also campained for other heros including john f kennedy john wayne and elvis presley

some people condemned borglum them thought he should leave the mountains alone

neither harold ickes secretary of the interior nor newton drury director of the national park service liked a carving

Week 10: Tides

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your book when the tide goes far out conveyd much information about tides

now i know one difference among a neap tide and a spring tide a spring tide is higher

i said to mr pitts some students wondered if tides were related to the swayng of earth in space

he said no tides mainly results from the moons gravitational pull on earth

during our last too summer holidays i and my sister took a trip to nova scotia canada

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the most greatest tides in the world we heard is in the bay of fundy between maine and canada

last tuesday mr pitts explain that at low tide water retreats uncovering many fascinating sights

he said you can see crabs starfish urchins clams and many varieties of seaweed

a hermit crab for example employes an empty shell as its home mr pitts added

whom wants to visit old orchard beach this weekend i have a chart that tells exactly when too expect low tide

Week 11: Marie Curie

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one of the most greatest celebritys of modern science are marie curie the discoverer of radium and polonium

she worked with Pierre curie her husband together them won the nobel prize in physics for their work with radioactivity

lucia asked didn’t the curies work result in the use of radiation therapys to treat cancer

yes lucia peoples later learn that radium could kill diseased cells

m curie founded the radium institute in paris france too study possible uses of radium

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during world war i she equip and accompanied a mobile x ray unit

curie helped make known the benefits of radiation but she died on july 4 1934 from radiation sickness

she did not no way fully understand radiums dangers or she wouldve certain modified some of her laboratory prodedures

like scientists everywhere curie record her theorys processes and findings in notebooks

more than seventy five years later them notebooks are still to dangerous to be handled