Naphtali

We just learned about the Dan.

Another of the twelve tribes was Naphtali.

This was the sixth son of Jacob, and the second son that he had with Bilhah who was his wife Rachel's servant.

In the Bible when God takes Moses up on a mountain and shows him all of the land promised to Abraham, one of the lands he talks about is Naphtali.


(from: wikipedia - naphtali)


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Head of a Peasant Woman with White Cap - Van Gogh

We just learned about the Van Gogh painting called The Potato Eaters.

Another of Van Gogh's paintings is the Head of a Peasant Woman with White Cap, painted in 1885 in the Netherlands.

This was also from his group of paintings called the Peasant Character Studies. One special thing about this painting is that many years later when people used an X-Ray to look through the layers of paint, they found out that Van Gogh had first made a self portrait of himself on the canvas, and then painted over it with the new painting of the Peasant Woman.


(from: wikipedia - peasant character studies (van gogh series))


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Hindi - Counting to Twenty Nine

We counted to 20 in Hindi, let's keep going!

21 इक्कीस (ikkees) - sounds like ik-kee-ss 文A

22 बाईस (baees) - sounds like bah-ay-ss 文A

23 तेईस (teees) - sounds like tay-ay-ss 文A

24 चौबीस (chaubees) - sounds like chow-bee-ss 文A

25 पच्चीस, (pachchees) - sounds like buh-chee-ss 文A

26 छब्बीस, (chhabbees) - sounds like chuh-bee-ss 文A

27 सत्ताईस, (sattaees) - sounds like sah-tah-ay-ss 文A

28 अट्ठाईस, (atthaees) - sounds like ah-tah-ee-ss 文A

29 उनतीस (unatees) - sounds like oo-n-tee-ss - 文A



(from: wikipedia - devanagari)

Swahili: ishirini na moja, ishirini na mbili, ishirini na tatu, ishirini na nne, ishirini na tano, ishirini na sita, ishirini na saba, ishirini na nane, ishirini na tisa

Russian: двадцать один (dvadtsat' odin), двадцать два (dvadtsat' dva), двадцать три (dvadtsat' tri), двадцать четыре (dvadtsat' chetyre), двадцать пять (dvadtsat' pyat'), двадцать шесть (dvadtsat' shest'), двадцать семь (dvadtsat' sem'), двадцать восемь (dvadtsat' vosem'), двадцать девять (dvadtsat' devyat')

Norwegian: tjueen, tjueto, tjue-tre, tjuefire, tjuefem, tjueseks, tjuesju, tjue åtte, tjue ni

Greek: είκοσι ένα (eíkosi éna), είκοσι δύο (eíkosi dýo), είκοσι τρεις (eíkosi treis), είκοσι τέσσερις (eíkosi tésseris), είκοσι πέντε (eíkosi pénte), είκοσι έξι (eíkosi éxi), είκοσι επτά (eíkosi eptá), είκοσι οκτώ (eíkosi októ), είκοσι εννέα (eíkosi ennéa)

ASL: twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine

Italian: ventuno, ventidue, ventitré, ventiquattro, venticinque, ventisei, ventisette, ventotto, ventinove

German: einundzwanzig, zweiundzwanzig, dreiundzwanzig, vierundzwanzig, fünfundzwanzig, sechsundzwanzig, siebenundzwanzig, achtundzwanzig, neunundzwanzig

Spanish: veintiún, veintidós, veintitrés, veinticuatro, veinticinco, veintiséis, veintisiete, veintiocho, veintinueve

French: vingt et un, vingt-deux, vingt-trois, vingt-quatre, vingt-cinc, vingt-six, vingt-sept, vingt-huit, vingt-neuf

Distillation

We just learned about the Desalter.

Another part of the way that oil is cleaned up or refined is called Distillation.

When a liquid is boiled, it turns into a gas called steam.
When the steam cools, it turns back into a liquid, which is called condensation.
The liquid boiling and condensing over and over and being collected in different places is called distillation.


(from: wikipedia - continuous distillation)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Rims

Yellow-Bellied Weasel

We just learned about the European Mink.

Another type of animal in the same family is the Yellow-Bellied Weasel.

This animal is about 10 inches long, and weighs about 3 pounds.

They get their name from their bright yellow bellies.
Usually they live up in the mountains in Asia, in small little caves called dens.


(from: wikipedia - yellow-bellied weasel)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Proboscis Monkey

Bowman's Capsule

We just learned about the Glomerulus.

Another part of the kidney is Bowman's Capsule.

This is also part of the nephron, just like the renal corpuscle and the glomerulus.
Remember that the glomerulus is the bunch of blood vessels that brings blood to the kidneys to be cleaned.
Bowman's Capsule wraps around the glomerulus, and collects the blood in one spot to be cleaned up.


(from: wikipedia - bowman's capsule)


Kid Facts - Blast from the past: Tragus

Bolivia

We just learned about the country of Argentina

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

This country is in South America, and borders Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile and Peru.
It is about 1 million square kilometers, and about 12 million people live there.
The people in this country speak Spanish.


(from: wikipedia - bolivia)

The flag of Bolivia is red, yellow and green, with the coat of arms in the middle that has a llama and some wheat and some other things.
Red is for the blood of the heroes of Bolivia, yellow is for wealth, and green is for nature.


(from: wikipedia - flag of bolivia)

To eat in this country you might have pique macho, which is beef, with potatoes, onions, peppers, eggs, mustard, mayonnaise and ketchup.

(from: wikipedia - pique macho)

Visiting this country you might go see Salar de Uyuni, which is the largest salt flat in the world, at over 10,000 square kilometers.
A salt flat is a big flat area where the ground is made of hard packed salt.


(from: wikipedia - salar de uyuni)

Sol de Mañana is a place with pools of sulphur, boiling mud lakes, and steam that sprays up to 50 meters high in some places.


(from: wikipedia - sol de mañana)


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