In 2019, Jewish communities across the world will be celebrating the festival of Hanukkah between December 22 and 30. The festival commemorates an important event in Jewish history that occurred in 165 B.C. when the community took back their destroyed temple from the Seleucid Empire and rebuilt what is today known as the Second Temple. “During ...
Peter Tabichi is a teacher from Kenya who recently won a US$1 million Global Teacher Prize given by the Varkey Foundation. What makes him special is that Tabichi gives away almost 80 percent of his monthly salary to help poor kids. He was selected from almost 10,000 nominations and received the prize for being the ...
To many traditional Chinese families, having a son is critically important in order to carry on the family name, especially when there is a single son in the family. During the Qing Dynasty in Wuxi in Jiangxi Province, a family of farmers with the last name Chen had an only child named Ajian. To the ...
People define financial freedom as the state in which you are able to live the life you want without having to worry about money. This is basically the dream of every human being. Anyone with a good enough income can set their sights on this lifestyle and, with proper planning, expect to reach it. Here ...
Roxana Quispe Collantes, a student from Peru, has become the first person in the world to write a thesis in Quechua, the Incan language that is still spoken by several tribes in the Andes. She successfully defended her thesis in Quechua and received top marks from San Marcos University in Lima. The thesis Collantes’ study ...
The Breaking Bad movie El Camino‘s storyline focusing on drug production is more relevant than ever — with a new study revealing methamphetamine contamination in houses is a public health problem around the world. Dr. Jackie Wright, Associate Professor Stewart Walker, and Dr. Kirstin Ross analyzed the contamination levels in everyday household items from a ...
Ni Kuang’s science-fiction prophecy Chasing the Dragon, which was published in 1983, contains the following passage: “A big city, even the one that has an important position in the world economy, can suffer the same fate. You don’t need to destroy the buildings of this big city. You don’t need to kill any resident and even ...
Writing instruction in early education should be about more than letter formation and penmanship, argue Michigan State University researchers who found preschool teachers don’t often encourage writing for communication purposes. Hope Gerde, associate professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, said: “Few teachers in this study think about writing as communication. “However, ...
People have always been conscious of their bodies, spending countless hours worrying whether they were too fat, too thin, and so on. Unfortunately, our children are not immune to these concerns. Getting ridiculed for being overweight can shatter a kid’s self-belief and push them into depression. It is at such times that social worker Jessica ...
The largest water management feature in Khmer history was built in the 10th century as part of a short-lived ancient capital in northern Cambodia. However, the system failed in its first year of operation, probably contributing to the return of the capital to Angkor Wat. An international team of researchers led by Dr. Ian Moffat ...
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