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Tips on Homeschooling, Pony Express Prodigy

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Tips on Homeschooling, Danica Miller https://www.southernliving.com/news/danica-mckellar-homeschool-tips?did=530034-20200530&utm_campaign=sl-best-of-the-south_newsletter&utm_source=southernliving.com&utm_medium=email&utm_content=053020&cid=530034&mid=34620257772 Pony Express Prodigy. Look back at earlier Blog Post about Gold Rush, and the World record trip of the Flying Cloud, With Women Navigator,  16 year old Quirt Rice https://www.outsideonline.com/2237451/calamity-every-turn?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Dispatch-09262017&utm_content=Dispatch-09262017+Version+A+CID_137d0e8e1f0f97f09c3f810770d6c835&utm_source=campaignmonitor%20outsidemagazine Thanks for Stopping by, Eliza

June 22-26 Weeks finds

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"Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like the curious children before the great mystery into which we were born." -Albert Einstein SCIENCE Destination Moon : On Friday, the moon reaches its first quarter phase, allowing you to see the distinctly dark gray regions that are called maria, or seas. These are smooth plains of solidified lava formed when giant asteroids struck the moon billions of years ago. Can you spot the Sea of Tranquility, where Apollo 11 touched down ? Use binoculars and telescopes to sweep down the shadow line that divides the light and dark portions of the lunar disk. It’s along this line where the sun shines low on the rugged lunar terrain. Sweep down to the more southern part of the moon and take a peek at two giant craters lying side-by-side, just southwest of the Sea of Tranquility. The larger one, 93 miles wide, is Hipparchus, while the other is 81-mile-wide Albategnius. — Andrew Fazekas Beavers http...

Summer Solstice. Watch the solstice virtually at Stonehenge. World Albatross Day, Endangered, The Antipode Albatross

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sat. 6/20 I have been celebrating the solstices with in season dinners since my kids were little. It's a good way to bring nature and the changes of the seasons into everyday life.  How To Celebrate The Summer Solstice Virtually This Year, from mindbodygreen.com June 17, 2020 — 0:39 AM This year will be the first time in decades that tens of thousands of people don't gather at Stonehenge in late June to ring in the summer solstice, due to travel restrictions for the coronavirus . On the bright side, it's also the first year this spectacle will be livestreamed for the rest of the world to see. What's the significance of the summer solstice at Stonehenge? Visitors usually gather at Stonehenge the night before the summer solstice and camp out so they can watch the sunrise together. In addition to being the official start of summer, the solstice is the day of the year when the sun shines for the longest in the northern hemisphere due to the tilt ...

Rowing to Europe in 1896, 21 live streams, Great Reads to begin your summer, Hugo Cabret and Echo, 9 year old boy finds a nest of Dinosaur eggs while looking for a cracker, AFAR Magazine, getting through Quarantine, Exactly How far can that Bird Fly? WOW!

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Thursday. 6/18 Friday 6/19 Rais’d are the dripping oars— Silent the boat: the lake, Lovely and soft as a dream, Swims in the sheen of the moon. –Matthew Arnold (1822–88) https://www.almanac.com/content/two-fishermen-who-rowed-europe# HISTORY Here’s the true story of two oyster dredgers from New Jersey, George Harbo and Frank Samuelson, who voyaged in a tiny open rowboat across the Atlantic.  Legend says that early in 1896, wealthy Police Gazette publisher Richard Fox offered a $10,000 prize to anyone who could cross the ocean without sails or steam. No contemporary accounts confirm this reward, but there is no doubt that Harbo, 30, and Samuelsen, 26, who dredged oysters and clams off the New Jersey coast for a living, were the first to row across the Atlantic, setting a speed record that stood for 114 years.  Of medium stature, both men had spent their lives at sea and were lean and muscular. Both were Norwegi...