Friday, February 10, 2012

Luis Donaldo Colosio's birthday

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge." Thomas Carlyle


TODAY IN HISTORY:
Kasparov Vs. IBM


  • 1863 The fire extinguisher is patented.
  • 1996 The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats chess player Garry Kasparov for the first time.
  • 2005 North Korea announces that it has nuclear weapons.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
Nicolas Cage
The Grammy's ceremony will be held soon, and Adele might show up. Watch some celebrities expressing support for the singer on this Reuters report via Newslook. And talking about celebrities, did you know that Nicolas Cage is a vampire? Watch him discuss the issue on this Yahoo report

Valentine's day is also coming up pretty soon. Time has this report about children preparing for the day. Also, this NPR report talks about love and how to identify it. Besides, Reuters describes a romantic experiment on this report.
How do we learn as children? Watch this CNN report featuring a young boy who's learning three languages at the same time!
How about culture awareness? Are you aware of other cultures? Check out this BBC article about multi-cultural students. And if you want to know about Japanese culture, watch this USA Today report about Geishas.

3 comments:

Lety Araujo said...

hello, I very much like to know that when it was patented the fire extinguisher and thanks to the will to able to control small fires which they had not been treated in time could cause extensive damage

wendiziitha ojitos said...

hello teacher I like the story about the Japanese geisha and it is identified by little if love is like people who already want to measure that is natural and not think they can measure the immense love that some temenos and as if Nicolas Cage is a best vampire so professional and they do not think it's not and if so what is what I admire most anque blood like you send a greeting teacher and I'm here signing his blook

rocio dominguez said...

hello teacher I think is not right that North Korea has nuclear weapons and I remember the news that said that the president of Korea was not afraid to use it.