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About the Universe

Submitted by Hugo Ortega on Fri, 01/08/2010 - 5:08pm

Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, wrote “Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindboggling big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”

Edwin A. Robinson's Birthday

Submitted by Hugo Ortega on Tue, 12/22/2009 - 4:28pm

Author E. A. Robinson received the Pulitzer prize three times for his pessimistic poems of "the American dream gone awry." He was born on December 22, 1869 and today would have been his 140th birthday. Robinson is best known for his short dramatic poems, including "Richard Cory" and "Miniver Cheevy."  When Robinson was asked to describe his poem "Richard Cory" he said it is "a nice little thing... There isn't any idealism in it, but there's a lot of something else - humanity, maybe" (151).

GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY

Submitted by Hugo Ortega on Sat, 11/21/2009 - 12:37pm

“We ourselves feel what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”
- Mother Theresa

QUIET PLEASE TESTING IN PROGRESS

Submitted by Hugo Ortega on Thu, 11/12/2009 - 4:31pm

Seniors in high school are nearing the halfway point to their final year before graduation. One important task they must perform, if they desire to apply to college, is to take the SAT. There are SATonly a few test dates available before the end of the 2009-2010 school year and are listed on their website – click here to go there.

Discovering King Tut's Tomb

Submitted by Hugo Ortega on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 4:13pm

The tomb of King Tutankhamun, the 9 year old boy turned Pharaoh of Egypt, was discoveredking tut on this day in 1922. He died at the age of 19 and was laid to rest in what is now  Luxor, Egypt. King Tut’s tomb has been, if not the only, one of the few ancient Egyptian royal tombs to have escaped plundering by grave robbers.

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