Arrow to the Sun is a 1973 short film and a 1974 book. Both the book and the film were written by Gerald McDermott. The book was printed in gouache and ink. Gouage is a type of watercolor paint. Arrow in the Sun won the 1975 Caldecott Medal for illustration.
Both the book and the short film are retellings of an old Pueblo tale. In the story the Arrow maker helps lead the boy to his ...
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The author of Fallen Phrase One is Richard Bach. Bach is an American writer specializing in the areas of aviation, fantasy, and philosophy. He is well known for some pretty popular books from the 1970s including Jonathan Livingston Seagull from 1970, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah from 1977, One: A Novel from 1989, and ten years later Out of My Mind published in ...
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Walter Raleigh is the author of Fallen Phrase Three. Raleigh lived from 1554 to 1618 and was a writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer. He was not the only person famous in his family as he was cousin to Sir Richard Grenville and the younger half brother of Sir Humphrey Gilbert.
An interesting fact about Raleigh in addition to the many different things that he ...
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Part One of the book Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix features a thirteen year old boy named Jonah. Jonah has always been aware that he was adopted and it has never seemed like a big deal to him. That is until he and his new friend Chip who is also adopted start receiving mysterious letters. Thus starts the mystery that is central to the book.
Jonah was adopted from a place called ...
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Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. Curie won the prize in physics in 1903 along with her husband Pierre Curie. Curie also happens to be the only woman who has won the prize more than once as she won the prize in chemistry in 1911. Marie Curie was a Polis Physicist.
She was also part of a family that held a legacy for winning Nobel Prizes. The Curie family legacy ...
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There is really only speculation as to why there is no Nobel prize in math. One of the most widely known and believed reasons is that Alfred Nobel decided not to include a prize in math for personal and petty reasons. These reasons are unfounded but it has circulated that a woman he either proposed to, married, or had as a mistress either rejected him or cheated on him with a famous ...
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The ages of people who have won the Nobel Prize in Physics varies. Marie Curie was was 36 in 1903 when she won the prize. Albert Einstein was 43 when he won the prize in 1921. Raymond Davis Jr. was 88 years old when he won the prize in 2002. Age is not one of the criteria that must be strictly met in the case of the prize.
Instead achievements are looked at. Some people have won at ...
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Gravitational Waves are important because they are a phenomenon that can barely be grasped. They are important because they happen at all and they are worthy of observation so that scientists can figure out not only what kind of importance they really actually do have but also what that might mean for modern science and space exploration.
Gravitational Waves are created when two black ...
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The 2017 Nobel Prize for medicine goes to 3 American scientists for their body clock studies. These three scientists are Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael W. Young. Their discoveries about the molecular mechanisms that control the body’s circadian rhythms is what won them the Nobel Prize.
Because fruit flies are one of the animals that have a very similar body clock ...
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In humans our biological clock drives our circadian rhythms. Humans actually have many biological clocks within us that are made up of groupings of interacting molecules in cells throughout our bodies. There is one large master clock in the brain that coordinates all the other clocks and keeps them in synch with each other.
The circadian rhythms within our bodies work to tell us hen ...
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