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 --- WARNING:WILD WEATHER HITS GREECE!!! On a typical October day, the sky is usually clear and pleasant temperatures. But, this week Greece has had a lot of wild weather happen. Vicious storms have swept away cars, completely destroy buildings, and it may have caused the death of two British tourists. The storm has also traveled to many islands including Crete. A lot of islands are under a state of emergency as the storm is threatening to stay for many more days. media type="youtube" key="-JuQDsDJZ-I" height="344" width="425" This is an example of a wild weather event...It is hurricane Wilma in Southern California. The date of the hurricane was October 24,2005. 

BEWARE...YOU ARE ENTERING A "HOW STUFF WORKS" AREA A "How Stuff Works" about batteries: Batteries are all over the world right now, and you use them pretty much every day. Batteries are in your car, in your PC, your cell phones, and many more things. A battery is basically a little can that is filled with chemicals. These chemicals produce electrons. When a chemical has a chemical reaction, that is called an electrochemical reaction. When you look at a battery, you see a **positive(+)** side, and a **negative(-)** side. What happens is electrons collect on the **positive** side of the battery. If you put a wire between the negative and positive side, the electrons will flow as fast as they can, wearing out the battery quickly. A lot of times you connect a load (like a light bulb) to the battery by using a wire. The speed of electron production, by a chemical reaction, determines how many electrons can flow between the negative and positive charges. Electrons go from the battery to the wire, and must travel from the positive and negative charges for the chemical reaction to start. This is exactly why a battery can sit somewhere(without being used) and still have a lot of power. It will not have a lot of power if the electrons are flowing between the positive and negative charges producing a chemical reaction. Once you connect a battery to a wire the chemical reaction begins.

media type="youtube" key="brdmnUBAS00" height="360" width="385"-  CAUTION...AN AWESOME BOOK REVIEW IS COMING YOUR WAY! Book:Things Hoped For Author: Andrew Clements Things Hoped For is such an interesting book and it will keep you hooked to the story. If you like a good mystery and some danger then this is the perfect book for you. First, Gwen moves into her Grandpa's very old apartment, in New York City. She moves because she is an amazing violin player and wants to try out to get into Julliard.Grandpa has a brother, Hank, and he comes and always wants to sell the apartment to get money. Once, Hank came with an axe to knock down the door if Grandpa did not agree. One day Grandpa isn't home and the phone is blinking. Gwen checks the messages and finds a message from Grandpa. The message says that Grandpa is going away, but he asked Gwen to please not tell anyone. He also asked her to act like she always did just like a normal 17 year old girl would act. The thing is, is that this is the most important week of Gwen's life and having Grandpa gone makes everything worse. She continues with her regular life like Grandpa asked her to, until she met Robert at a cafe. Robert asks her to go to a concert with him. After the concert Gwen asked if Robert wanted to stay in her house because Gwen was very lonely. Gwen told the whole story to Robert, even though she was not supposed to, and Robert agreed. Robert was also trying out to go to Julliard so they spent hours practicing. One night, Gwen asked Robert to go retrieve some meat from the downstairs freezer, so Gwen could make dinner. When he came back empty handed, is face was pale white. Robert asked Gwen to follow him down the stairs and into the freezer. She lifted the lid and she became so pale, like she was going to faint. It looked as if she was punched in the stomach. Tears started pouring down her cheeks as she stared into the freezer. She was so confused and did not know what was going on. She was terrified. She looked into the freezer one more time and once again she saw...

This amazing book will keep you guessing until the end!

The pictures below are pictures of apartments in New York City,(Left)The Julliard School,(Center) and a violin(Right)

 THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU READ THIS FANTASTIC UNSOLVED MYSTERY! An unsolved mystery about BIG FOOT: A lot of documents around America, especially in the forest regions of the Pacific North West, have been reporting giant monsters and ape-like monsters. Everybody says that Bigfoot or Sasquatch are supposed to be roaming in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and the western edge of Canada.Even though scientist say that no such creature exists, they do not know for sure if it really isn't roaming around the world. According to many people, Bigfoot stands about 7 feet tall. They are usually seen roaming around the world lonely and with hair covering most of their bodies. People say that their limbs are very powerful and strong, but they are built more like human limbs, instead of ape-like limbs. They are seen to have short broad shoulder, short necks, flat faces and noses, sloped foreheads, ridged brows, and cone shaped heads, which make them seem more like animals instead of humas. They are said to eat both vegetables and meat, they are nocturnal, and usually not active during cold weather. Bigfoot is usually reported to have very dark auburn-colored hair covering it's body. Occasionally people report Bigfoot to have black, brown, white, or silver hair. They have said that a Bigfoot footprint ranges anywhere from 12-22 inches long and the with being about 18 inches is the most common. Usually people say that it is 7 inches in width. Stories of Bigfoot have been passed down through many generations. American Indians had many different names for Bigfoot like Wendigo, Witigo, Witiko, and Wee-Tee-Go. These names were all roughly translated into evil spirit that devoured mankind. A long time ago around 1860, a German explorer thought that Wendigo meant cannibal among the tribes on the Great Lake. The Native Americans had there own legends and stories about Bigfoot. They thought that Bigfoot was a gigantic spirit, who stood over 15 feet tall. They also thought that Wendigo or Bigfoot once was human, but had been transformed into a monster by a form of magic. Even though the Native America might have different thoughts, tales, and legends about Wendigo, they are all pretty much reported to have glowing eyes, yellowed fangs, and overly long tongues. Some reports about Bigfoot had said that they had yellowish skin, and mostly all other people have said that they have a matted layer of fur. They are all said to be very lanky and tall, and are driven by an awful hunger. There are plenty of possibilities that could come up with mysteries like Bigfoot, but we will never know which one is real or not. People all over the country have been reporting Bigfoot, but could it be just another big animal in the woods and not Bigfoot? Many unsolved mysteries will keep us guessing and researching, just like the legendary Bigfoot.



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