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Welcome to the Big Top where you will witness acts of the bizarre and the inexplicable. Under this tent your eyes will feast on sights of incredible courage, tremendous talent and amusing antics! But don’t let your eyes get too full, because you’ll want to fill your belly with the taste of peanuts, popcorn and cotton candy! Have a seat, get comfortable and enjoy the show!
If you think that you’re close to your family, get a load of this family. The Wallendas have been working and performing as a team for over 200 years! In the late 18th century the Wallenda family traveled throughout Europe performing circus acts such as juggling and acrobatics. For over 100 years, each generation of the Wallenda family would learn from their parents and continue the tradition of entertaining and performing.
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Have you ever thought what life might be like without certain things? Take, for instance, toilet paper. You probably haven’t given much thought to what life was like before it, but believe it or not, toilet paper wasn’t always used! Before there was toilet paper, people from different parts of the world used a variety of things, from coconut shells, to leaves and sticks to sponges soaked in salt water, to corn cobs!
You’ve just walked in the door after a long day at school. Exhausted from the walk home, you turn on the TV and flip through a few channels. You don’t find anything to watch, so you turn off the TV and turn on the overhead light and begin reading a book.
Most of us are familiar with the story of the Titanic, the famous ship that hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912 and sunk into the Atlantic Ocean. The submerged Titanic was discovered in 1985 by French and American scientists. During the next several years, many sunken artifacts from the famous ship were brought to the surface. Although the story of Titanic and its recovery is a fascinating piece of history, it is not the only sunken ship that has been found in the depths of the oceans. In fact, there are dozens of ships that have been discovered (and hundreds more that are still undiscovered) that are much older and carried many more valuables than the Titanic.
What would you do if you found a map that leads you to a buried treasure? Would you tell anyone? Would you pack up your things and embark on an adventure, hoping to find gold and jewels? You’re not the only one! For centuries, stories have been told of pirate booty buried for safety and of gold, silver and gems lost at sea—the victim of a sunken ship. Many treasures have been unearthed or un-sunken and the people who have found them have made a pretty penny. But there are still many stories that still remain a mystery. Maybe you’ll be the next lucky person to find a buried treasure!
There had been so much work and preparation that the family could hardly believe the special day had finally arrived. Today Mieko, oldest of the three daughters, would be married.
Little eight-year-old Tamiko, eyes dancing with excitement, ran to show her father the gorgeous silk kimono that she’d be wearing at the ceremony. Good luck symbols in the form of white plum blossoms had been gracefully embroidered on the bright pink fabric. After properly complimenting the beauty of her kimono, father sent his youngest daughter off to get ready for the big day. It would take hours for all of them to put their kimonos on and have their sashes properly tied.
Yukata Kimonos
Originally, “kimono” was the Japanese word for clothing. But in the early 1900s, as western fashions became a part of Japanese society, the term came to mean only the traditional form of clothing. Today, kimonos are only worn on special occasions such as weddings, funerals, tea ceremonies, summer festivals and visits to the temple. Handed down from one generation to the next, kimonos are treasured family heirlooms and beautiful works of art.
Bushido is an ancient Japanese code of behavior that values honor, even at the cost of one’s own life. Mieko’s father wore pleated trousers known as hakama to the wedding. Those who practice the martial arts of Aikido and Kendo also wear the hakama. The seven pleats on a hakama represent the seven virtues of bushido:
There are so many facts to learn, surprise and ponder, a lifetime is not enough to absorb let alone remember them. Some are trivial, some are profound. Others are well - why don’t you decide? Here is a list of surprising and unusual facts. Do any of them surprise you?
You write on it every day. You read from it. You might even print out this issue of the Tribune on it. But, do you know how it’s made? Yes, we’re talking about paper, and we’re going to explain how it’s made. Read on!
