Friday, February 4, 2022

Hindi - You are sad


We just learned that in Hindi I am happy is म्हानै खुशी होई (mhaanai khushee hoee).

Now let's learn how to say You are sad.

आप दुखी हैं (aap dukhee hain)

In Hindi you say something like "You sad are".

You - आप (aap) - sounds like ah-p - 文A

sad - दुखी (dukhee) - Sounds like doo-kee - 文A


are - हैं (hain) - Sounds like hay - 文A



So all together आप दुखी हैं (aap dukhee hain) sounds like ah-p doo-kee hay.


hindi devanagari
(from: wikipedia - devanagari)

Swahili: Una huzuni

Russian: Ты грустный (Ty grustnyy)

Norwegian: du er lei deg

Greek: Είσαι λυπημενος (Eísai lypimenos)

ASL: You are sad

Italian: Sei triste

German: Sie sind traurig

Spanish: Estas triste

French: Vous êtes triste

Thursday, February 3, 2022

Bluetooth


We just learned about the Power Supply.

Another part of a computer is Bluetooth.

We know that you can hook things up to your computer like your monitor, or plugs things into USB ports.
But sometimes you might have a keyboard, mouse or headphones that are wireless and don't plug into anything.

For things like that you can use something called Bluetooth, which is a way for your computer to talk to other things using radio waves on a certain channel.
If you want to hook up a bluetooth mouse, it's kind of like both your computer and your mouse have to turn on the radio and listen to the same station.
Once they are on the same station they know how to talk to each other, and the mouse can send message to the computer to move the cursor around.

The Bluetooth name comes from an old Scandinavian king named Harald Bluetooth, who helped bring Danish tribe together into one kingdom.
This was supposed to mean that the Bluetooth way of wireless radio could be the way to help bring other technologies together.
The symbol that kind of looks like an xB is the symbol of the King.


(from: wikipedia - bluetooth)


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Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Ring-tailed Lemur


We just learned about the .

Another type of lemur is the Ring-tailed Lemur, also called the Lemur catta, maky, or hira.

This is a very famous Lemur because of King Julien from the Madagascar movies.

Ring-tailed lemurs grow to be about 45 centimeters, and weigh about 2 kilograms.
Just like their name says, they have a long black and white striped or ringed tail.

These lemurs are funny because sometimes they will sit up and face the sun, like they are trying to get a tan on their white bellies.
They also sometimes will fight each other by spraying a scent on their tails and then have smelly tail stink fights with other lemurs.


(from: wikipedia - ring-tailed lemur)


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Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Perpendicular Plate of the ethmoid bone


We just learned about the Nasal Septum.

Another part of the nose is the Perpendicular plate of the ethmoid bone.

The ethmoid bone is the flat bone between the main part of the skull and where the nose is.
The perpendicular plate is attached to the ethmoid bone, and sticks out forward and splits the nostrils into two sides.


(from: wikipedia - perpendicular plate of ethmoid bone)


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Monday, January 31, 2022

Barbados


We just learned about the country of Antigua and Barbuda

Let's learn a little about the country of Barbados!

This is a very small island country in the Caribbean Sea, just north of Trinidad and Tobago, and South America.
It is about 439 square kilometers, and about 287,000 people live there.
The people in this country speak either English or Creole.


(from: wikipedia - barbados)

The flag of Barbados is vertical stripes of blue, yellow, and blue with a black trident in the middle.
Blue is for the ocean and sky, yellow is for the sand, and the three points of the trident are for government of the people, by the people and for the people.
The bottom of the trident is broken to show that they are not part of a colony and owned by another country anymore after their freedom.


(from: wikipedia - flag of barbados)

To eat in this country you might have fried breadfruit, which is kind of like a jackfruit.


(from: wikipedia - breadfruit)

Visiting this country you might go to Miami Beach

(from: wikipedia - miami beach, barbados)

There is a large cave in Barbados called Harrison's Cave that has a small train ride you can take through the caves.
Some places you get to stop and get out and walk aroud the cave, like one spot called The Great Hall is 15 meters high.


(from: wikipedia - harrison's cave)


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Sunday, January 30, 2022

Deck the Halls


We just learned about the Christmas carol Silver Bells.

Another famous Christmas carol is Deck the Halls.

The music for this song is very old, going back to a Welsh song from some time around the 1700s.
That song was mostly someone singing about a beautiful woman that they were in love with, and then singing the same "fah la la la la" part after each verse.

In 1862 a famous Scottish musician named Thomas Oliphant picked new words for the song and made it about Christmas.

Some of the old words for the song talk about drinking mead, so some people have changed those words to talk about singing and Christmas.


(from: wikipedia - deck the halls)


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Saturday, January 29, 2022

Ezekiel - Sistine Chapel - Michelangelo


We just learned about Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel painting of the prophets Isaiah, Daniel, Jonah, and Jeremiah.
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Another prophet that Michelangelo painted on the ceiling was Ezekiel.

Ezekiel is holding a scroll, and wearing red robes with grey scarves and a hat.
He looks very strong even though he has a white beard showing he is old.

In the Bible Ezekiel was another prophet that had to tell people about bad things that were going to happen to God's people, but he also told about good things that would happen again some day much later.


(from: wikipedia - sistine chapel ceiling)


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