FINAL Thought of the school year!!05/20 –05/23/2013
Monday, May 20th, 2013“If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got.” – J. Mabley
Allen’s Place
Harrison County High Schools (Safe Room)
Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category
Events of the Period_____ca. 1913
Thursday, May 16th, 2013POLITICS
- 1913 Suffragist demonstrations occur in London.
- 1913 Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian Passive Resistance Movement, is arrested.
- 1914 World War I breaks out.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- 1913 Friedrich Bergius converts coal dust into oil.
- 1913 Rene Lorin states the basic ideas of jet propulsion.
- 1913 Grand Central Terminal in New York City is completed.
- 1914 Dr. Alexis Carrel performs the first successful heart surgery on a dog.
SCOIETY AND CULTURE
- 1913 George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion is first performed in Vienna.
- 1913 The first Paramount and Charlie Chaplin movies are shown.
- 1914 The Panama Canal opens.
Thought of the week 5/13- 5/17/2013
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013Everything that irritates us about others can lead to an understanding about ourselves!
By Carl Jung
Events of the Period —-ca. 1908
Thursday, May 9th, 2013POLITICS
- 1907 Sun Yat-sen announces the program of his Chinese Democratic Republic.
- 1907 Rasputin gains influence at the court of Tsar Nicholas II.
- 1908 The Union of South Africa is established.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- 1907 Ivan Pavlov studies conditioned reflexes.
- 1908 Wilbur Wright flies 30 miles in 40 minutes.
- 1908 The Ford Motor Company produces the first Model T.
SOCIETY AND CULTURE
- 1907 Immigration to the United States is restricted by law.
- 1907 The first Cubist exhibition is held is held in Paris.
- 1908 Lucy M. Montgomery writes Anne of Green Gables.
Thought of the week 5/06—- 5/10/2013
Monday, May 6th, 2013
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
By Will Rogers
Events of the Period ____ca. 1895
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013POLITICS
- 1896 Russia and China sign the Manchuria Convention.
- 1898 The United States declares war against Spain over Cuba.
- 1898 The Boxers, an anti-Western organization, assemble in China.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- 1896 The Niagara Falls hydroelectric plant opens.
- 1898 Pierce and Marie Curie discover radium and polonium.
- 1898 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin builds his airship.
SOCIETY AND CULTURE
- 1896 The first modern Olympics are held in Athens.
- 1896 The Klondike gold rush is on.
- 1897 Henri Rousseau paints Sleeping Gypsy.
- 1898 H. G. Wells writes The War of the Worlds.
Thought of the week 4/29/—5/03/2013
Monday, April 29th, 2013
Live every second as if it’s your last!!!
Events of the Period—-ca. 1895
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013SOCIETY AND CULTURE
- 1895 Tchaikovsky’s Swain Lake is performed in St. Petersburg.
- 1895 The first professional football game is played at Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
- 1895 H. G. Wells writes The Time Machine.
Thought of the week 4/15/—4/19/2013
Monday, April 15th, 2013In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straightforward.
By Cicero (106—43 B.C.)
Thought of the week 04/08/ —04/12/2013
Monday, April 8th, 2013Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.” anonymous