Weasels

We just learned about the Ring-Tailed Lemur, and we've learned about a lot of other types of Primates from Gorillas to Chimpanzees and monkeys!

Let's start learning about Weasels!

When we think of weasels, we usually think of a small animal with a long body that sneaks around on the ground.
We even use the word weasel sometimes to mean someone is being sneaky!

But the weasel family in the animal kingdom has a lot of different types of animals, like skunks, raccoons, red pandas, badgers and otters!
In Latin, the word for weasel is "mustela", so the science name for the weasel family is "Musteloidea".
There are over 60 types of animals in the weasel family, and small like less than a foot long, or big like almost 100 pounds.

Most of them are small with long bodies, short legs, round ears and thick fur.
They are all wild animals, but most of them are really adorable!


(from: wikipedia - mustelidae)


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Septal Nasal Cartilage

We just learned about the Perpendicular Plate of Ethmoid Bone.
A while back we learned about the Vomer bone that is part of the skull right behind where the nose is.

Another part of the septum of the nose is the Septal Nasal Cartilage.

This is the part that sticks out from the perpendicular plate, and is made of rubbery cartilage that you can push around.
It is covered up by skin and other parts of your nose, and makes up the middle that separates your nostrils.


(from: wikipedia - septal nasal cartilage)


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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

We just learned about the country of Barbados

Let's learn a little about the country of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines!

This country is in the Caribbean Sea, just north of South America, and just west of Barbados.
It is about 390 square kilometers, and about 110,000 people live there.
The country is made up of about 32 small islands.
The people in this country speak either English or Creole.


(from: wikipedia - saint vincent and the grenadines)

The flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is blue, yellow and green, with three green diamonds in the middle of the yellow.
Blue is for the sky and sea, yellow is for the sand and sun, and green is for the plants and life.
Three diamonds in the middle are for the nickname for the country of the "Gem of the Antilles", and it's in the shape of a V because of the Saint Vincent.


(from: wikipedia - flag of saint vincent and the grenadines)

To eat in this country you might have Pumpkin Soup

(from: wikipedia - pumpkin soup)

Visiting this country you might go see La Soufrière, a volcano that has erupted many times, even recently in 2021.

(from: wikipedia - la soufrière (volcano))

There is a private island called Mustique that means mosquito, where only a few super rich people like Tommy Hilfiger own the island and have very fancy private houses and beaches.

(from: wikipedia - mustique)


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We Wish You a Merry Christmas

We just learned about the Christmas carol Deck the Halls.

Another famous Christmas carol is We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

This song was written some time around 1935 by an organist named Arthur Warrell.
When he first wrote it, he used the words "I wish you a merry Christmas" instead of "We wish you a merry Christmas".

One of the funny things is the figgy pudding that people demand before they go.
That is an old dessert that was usually like a sweet cake with honey fruits and nuts.

There were also some funny people who had a different version of the song and had the ending of "New Year" rhyme with "barrel of beer".


(from: wikipedia - we wish you a merry christmas)


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Joel - Sistine Chapel - Michelangelo

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

This painting of Joel shows him balding with white hair and looking at a scroll.
He was a prophet who predicted that some day in the future people who had faith in the Lord would be saved.


(from: wikipedia - sistine chapel ceiling)


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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.



(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

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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