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Day 9 of GED in 5 months, salt, trade, and transit

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

So, if salt is so important, how did they get it from one place to another before we had trains?   One of the key details of Phase I of the Four Freedoms movement is public transportation, as important back in time as today, right?

 

Day 9 Lesson Plan
Khan Academy Comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs
optional extra GrammarBook.com activity: Comparatives & Superlatives
Khan Academy Multiplying Fractions
Khan Academy fractions-decimals
Day 9 ExitSlips
 
 

Action Items:

1.) Why is salt important, biologically?

2.) Why was salt traded from place to place?

3.) Share your thoughts on whether salt supplies could have influenced wars.

4.) Write a book, story, blog post or tweet that uses those thoughts, and please tell us about it! If you write a book, once it is published please consider donating a copy to your local public library.

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COVID: India to allow Amarnath pilgrimage despite surge in cases | Asia| An in-depth look at news from across the continent | DW | 26.04.2021

A Hindu pilgrim is carried on a palanquin by Kashmiri bearers over a glacier on her way to the sacred Amarnath Cave The local government in India-administered Kashmir is contemplating setting up makeshift shelters and facilities for 600,000 Hindu pilgrims for the annual Amarnath pilgrimage, which it intends to host this summer despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The pilgrims will visit the Amarnath cave shrine, perched 3,880-meters (12,730 feet) above sea level in the Himalayas.

The government will set up two base camps — one called Baltal and another called Chandanwari — for the pilgrims, who intend to make the journey on foot. From Baltal, the pilgrims will have to walk a distance of 14 kilometers (9 miles), while those approaching Chandanwari will have to trek 32 kilometers to reach the cave shrine housing the ice stalagmite, referred to by Hindus as the Shiv Lingam (the phallus of Lord Shiva).

Although authorities have temporarily suspended online registration for the pilgrimage in the wake of a spike in daily coronavirus cases, the site still says that the pilgrimage will take place as scheduled from June 28 through August 22.

Recently, hundreds of devotees, including nine top saints, tested positive for COVID-19 in the northern city of Haridwar, where hundreds of thousands of devotees gathered to participate in the Kumbh Mela festival.

Source: COVID: India to allow Amarnath pilgrimage despite surge in cases | Asia| An in-depth look at news from across the continent | DW | 26.04.2021

Coronavirus: Is India counting all COVID deaths? | Asia| An in-depth look at news from across the continent | DW | 26.04.2021

the health expert said. “The actual number of deaths from COVID-19 may be 5 to 10 times the official numbers. Together with under-reporting of cases and the large test positivity ratios we are seeing across the country, the true scale of the pandemic may be far worse than the numbers would suggest.” Source: Coronavirus: Is India counting all COVID deaths? | Asia| An in-depth look at news from across the continent | DW | 26.04.2021

Las Cruces Public Schools prepares to hold COVID-19 vaccine clinic for students 16+ | KFOX

New Mexico students 16 years and older will be given priority when registering for a COVID-19 vaccine appointment starting Monday until Friday. The Las Cruces Public School district is taking advantage of this opportunity. On Wednesday the district is holding a drive-through vaccine clinic at Las Cruces High from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. for all students 16 years and older, who want to be vaccinated. It will be held in the student parking lot on the north side of the campus.

Source: Las Cruces Public Schools prepares to hold COVID-19 vaccine clinic for students 16+ | KFOX

Australien – Koalas in Not

Senioren um die Welt

Koalas gehören zusammen mit den Kängurus zu den bekanntesten Tieren, die nur in Australien heimisch sind. Aufgrund ihres niedlichen Aussehens mit den flauschigen Ohren, der großen Nase und der Ähnlichkeit mit einem Teddybär haben Koalas nicht nur in Australien, sondern auch auf allen anderen Kontinenten eine hohe Popularität erlangt.

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may nothing but happiness come through your door – Holly’sWorld

April27, 2021 picture of the day fluffy tailtaken February 27, 2021f-stop: f/8; exposure time: 1/500sec; ISO 400focal length 170mmCANON EOS Rebel xtedited in PhotoShopavailable at Picfair There is nobility in compassiona beauty in empathyand grace in forgiveness~ unknown hope you have a great day!thanks for stopping by!! Life is a series of thousands of tiny…

Source: may nothing but happiness come through your door – Holly’sWorld

Follow up story for the Battle of Savo Island

Pacific Paratrooper

Eric Geddes and his crew

With thanks to Pierre Lagacé for finding this information.  [Should anyone require research on WWII, especially the ETO, this is the man to know!]

Battle of Savo Island in art

Bloody Savo Revisited – Sole survivor fights to clear WWII shadow

Battle of Savo Island

Sole survivor fights to clear WWII shadow

For the follow-up video….

https://www.abc.net.au/7.30/sole-survivor-fights-to-clear-wwii-shadow/4468200

Eric Geddes WINS!!!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-27/raaf-veteran-wins-fight-to-clear-crews-name/5844958

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Military Humor – 

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Farewell Salutes – 

Donald Arnold – Des Plaines, IL; US Army, WWII, ETO

Shirley Hugh Barker (104) – Beloit, WI; US Army, WWII, 82nd Airborne Division

Raymond Dietrich – Muscatine, IA; US Army, 11th Airborne Division

Ira Edmondson – Texarkana, AR; US Army, WWII, 42nd “Rainbow Division”

Jack Frisch – Colorado Springs, CO; US Army, German Occupation, 547th Ordnance / NFL running back

Philip A, Goddard – Morrisville, VT; US Army, Medical Unit/82nd Airborne…

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Perspectives on Death

Shayan's Sphere

Often regarded as one of the few certainties of life, death has always been a major concern of human race since time immemorial. Over the years many philosophers as well as non-philosophers have given many similar as well as contrasting theories on death but nothing so profound till date can give the exact and truest definition of death? Then why the subject death is still one of the most discussed topic in current world? And above all, what is it that compels us to fear death?

To answer this question, Jaff Mason argues that the concept of death has no subjective meaning. Death and its concepts are absolutely empty. No clear picture comes to mind when we think about death. All we can conclude is that death is either real or vague. If it’s real than it is the termination of one’s life entirely and if it is vague it…

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Cielito lindo

San Juan de Chamula-San Cristobal de las Casas-Palenque-Campeche-Merida-Valladolid-Chetumal-Tulum-Cancun.

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Mexic, 2019

După trei săptămâni în Mexic, mi-a fost foarte greu să mă readaptez la întoarcerea în țară.

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Mult timp după aceea am simțit lipsa acelor oameni simpli și sentimentali.

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Am parcurs ruta Ciudad de Mexico-San Juan de Chamula-San Cristobal de las Casas-Palenque-Campeche-Merida-Valladolid-Chetumal-Tulum-Cancun.

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Mexicul are o reputație turistică controversată și mexicanii sunt conștienți că turiștii au temeri.

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De aceea, localnicii se străduiesc să demonstreze că nu e atât de rău cum se spune și lasă întotdeauna de la ei.

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În primele zile, am crezut că am avut noroc să nimeresc doar peste oameni binevoitori

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și așteptam să vină momentul vreunei nemulțumiri sau frustrări turistice, așa cum se întâmplă peste tot.

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Dar în cele trei săptămâni, în fiecare clipă,

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bunăvoința firească și naturală a oamenilor mă uimea pe zi ce trece.

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Mexicanii au o ingenuitate și o corectitudine exemplare, principii scurse din demnitatea firească de a nu înșela un oaspete…

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