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Nice young ladies do fly
 Oct. 16, 2019 - Hannah "Nancy" Harkness was sixteen years old in 1930 when she announced to her parents she wanted to learn to fly. "Nice young ladies don't do such things," her mother told her. It's the first sentence in Nancy Love: WASP Pilot, a riveting new book by Sarah Byrn Rickman.  Word of the Dayrelented: verb;gave in, acquiesced; Find it in blue in today's top story!Writing Practice
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Extra! Extra! Feature Article Douglas Brinkley to students: Lead a dignified lifeSept. 21, 2018 - Douglas Brinkley eloquently delivered the Keynote Address at last Friday's Student News Net Symposium. Read More
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Douglas Brinkley, author of Rosa Parks: A Life, speaks at the Student News Net Symposium on Sept. 14, 2018.. Weekly VOCABWeek of October 14 mobility: noun; the state of being mobile, able to move;How two sticks of gum changed Col. Halvorsen's life quarry: noun; a large area containing a natural deposit, deep in the ground, usually stone or marble Washington Monument to reopen vessels: noun; ships, boats, canoes or container that holds something; USS Arizona Memorial reopens wrath: noun; negative effects, damage, tumult, anger, harm; Will Florida dodge Dorian's wrath? Today In HistoryOctober 19 1781: Library of Congress: British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army of some 8,000 men to General George Washington at Yorktown, giving up any chance of winning the Revolutionary War. Cornwallis had marched his army into the Virginia port town earlier that summer expecting to meet British ships sent from New York. The ships never arrived. In early October, approximately 17,000 American and French troops led by Generals George Washington and Jean-Baptiste Rochambeau, respectively, surrounded British-occupied Yorktown. Off the coast, French Admiral François de Grasse strategically positioned his naval fleet to control access to the town via the Chesapeake Bay and the York River. The Franco-American siege exhausted the British army's supplies of food and ammunition. With no hope for escape, Cornwallis agreed to the terms of Washington's Articles of Capitulation, signing the document at Moore House on October 19. Hours after the surrender, the general's defeated troops marched out of Yorktown to the tune "The World Turned Upside Down."More from Student News Net
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Studio glass art is a recent development but creating functional glass from silica sand is thousands of years old. Through this Student News Net video, tour the Chihuly Garden and Glass in Seattle, Washington to marvel at the beauty of glass and the chemical elements! Student News Net was there in 2017. Read More: Seattle sights are simply stupendous Pink diamonds are rareSept. 3, 2013 (update: 2016) Over 90 percent of the world's pink diamonds come from The Argyle Diamond Mine in Western Australia. Pink Diamonds are very rare and very expensive, but all diamonds are tetrahedrons of carbon atoms.  A rush for gold ended quicklyMay 12, 2016 - The story of the short-lived Klondike Gold Rush (1896-1899) is told at the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in downtown Seattle.  Glass: a hot and cool combo of art and scienceMarch 22, 2016 - Glassblowing is a red hot, totally cool combination of art and science. In The News Nice young ladies do flyOct. 16, 2019 - Hannah "Nancy" Harkness was sixteen years old in 1930 when she announced to her parents she wanted to learn to fly. "Nice young ladies don't do such things," her mother told her. It's the first sentence in Nancy Love: WASP Pilot, a riveting new book by Sarah Byrn Rickman.  Join a team of volunteers to preserve wildlifeOct. 15, 2019 - It's National Wildlife Refuge Week. Hike, bike or walk one of the 567 refuges!  Discover your local historyOct. 14, 2019 - Take time today to learn about indigenous people in America.  Grab a phone, a pair of binoculars for the October Big DayOct. 9, 2019 - The 2019 October Big Day is one week from Saturday.   |
