First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit
At 5:20 am EDT on Mar. 29, 2011, MESSENGER captured this historic image of Mercury. This image is the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit about the Solar System’s innermost planet. Over the subsequent six hours, MESSENGER acquired an additional 363 images before downlinking some of the data to Earth. The MESSENGER team is currently looking over the newly returned data, which are still continuing to come down.
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The largest earthquake in Japan’s recorded history rocked Japan on Friday, March 11, 2011, shaking cities and villages along a 1,300-mile stretch of coastline with terrifying tremors felt as far away as Tokyo, hundreds of miles from the epicenter. The quake killed at least 60 people and unleashed a monster 30-foot-high tsunami that sent ships crashing into shore, wiped away homes, and carried cars through the streets of towns. Tsunami warnings were issued for the entire Pacific, including Hawaii, South America, Canada, Alaska and the whole West Coast of the United States.
So You Want to do Some Colonial America Research….
First make sure you have the assignment sheet. It can be found here if you’ve lost it.
Resources
Check out the Library Website:
Power Search and World Book Web
CLIO (under the American History and Culture heading)
Subjects/databases to check out:American History, Daily Life Through History, U.S. Geography, The African American Experience The Native American Experience
Check out the Actual Library:
There are books there you guys! Books with titles like Colonial America, Everyday life in Early America, The Colonial America Almanac, etc.
Check out a Textbook:
You have access to the U.S. History Textbook American Odyssey and if you check one out from me you can take one home and check out Unit 1: Chapters 1, 2 and 3. Not all the information will be relevant to all research, so skim the content before you decide to lug that thing around.
Check out the Early America Website
Other Things to Consider:
You may not be able to find the “perfect” information, but consider the major events which occurred during the time period and how they might have impacted both the nation and your state at the time.
If you are still having trouble make sure you come and see me at some point this week.
South African photographer Jodi Bieber’s portrait of Ayesha, an Afghan woman whose nose and ears were cut off by her husband under the Taliban’s authoritarian rule, won the World Press Photo award for 2010 Friday, one of photojournalism’s most coveted prizes. The photo was published as the Aug. 1 cover of Time magazine.
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U.S. Gov’t Homework: Due 2/7
Part I
5 things you think you should know about the state you’ve been assigned during the 1780s + answers
5 things you think that you should know about the United States during the 1780s + answers
Part II
the URLs or book titles you used to locate your answers
email me if you have any questions: searfus@pdx.edu
Was George Bush right? As Egypt erupts, our Lexington columnist thinks the former president’s Arab “freedom agenda” is suddenly looking a little cleverer.
Here’s a very interesting story in The Economist about President Bush and President Obama.
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Google just came out with Art Project, which is basically Google Street View for major museums around the world, allowing you to “walk around” and see the museum. The craziest part is that they made these insanely high resolution pictures of the paintings, allowing you to zoom really far in and see, in great detail, what the brushstrokes of these paintings look like. Probably far closer than you could actually get at the museum.
This is what Van Gogh’s Starry Night looks like in extreme detail.
(reblogged from balltillifall)
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What’s Happening in Egypt Explained
Click photo to view the article. Originally posted at 1:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday, is being updated and is being kept near the top of the blog. Some of the information near the top of the post may be outdated, and if you’ve been following the story closely, the information at the top will definitely seem very basic. So please scroll to the bottom of the post for the latest.
(Via givemesomethingtoread)
