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New exhibit on Women in the Air Force opens today
March 5, 2021 - In honor of Women's History Month, the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio is launching a new exhibit today - Women in the Air Force From Yesterday into Tomorrow. The opening ceremony is being streamed live today at 6:30 p.m. EST with a new video being shown ten minutes before the virtual event begins.  Word of the Daycustomized: verb;modified to specific requirements Find it in blue in today's top story!Writing Practice
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Complete this Writing Practice. Then print or email your document, or if available, save it to Google Drive. Writing ProgressTrack your progress all year. For your Student Summary Report Form: Weekly VOCABWeek of March 01 cartoonist: noun; an artist who draws cartoons, comic strips and/or animations;'Good ol' Charlie Brown has the last sigh collaboration: noun; actions through which two or more people or entities work together; Is 'pancake' ice on the menu for winter 2021? expansion: noun; actions that expand or make greater in size, such as acquisition of more land; Sept. 10, 1813: U.S. Navy meets the British Royal Navy on Lake Erie Today In HistoryMarch 5 1946: In a speech delivered at Westminster College in Missouri, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill referred to the "iron curtain," the cold war boundary between countries controlled by the Soviet Union and western countries.1868: Impeachment proceedings against President Andrew Johnson began. Ultimately, Johnson remained in office when the Senate was one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed to impeach a president. 1770: The Boston Massacre took place when British troops and a crowd in Boston confronted each other. Five men were killed by British troops, an event that sparked further dislike for British rule. 1512: Gerhardus Mercator, cartographer and geographer who developed the Mercator Projection of the ratio of latitude to longitude still in use today, was born in Belgium. 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 rareOver 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 quicklyThe 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 scienceGlassblowing is a red hot, totally cool combination of art and science. In The News New exhibit on Women in the Air Force opens todayMarch 5, 2021 - In honor of Women's History Month, the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio is launching a new exhibit today - Women in the Air Force From Yesterday into Tomorrow. The opening ceremony is being streamed live today at 6:30 p.m. EST with a new video being shown ten minutes before the virtual event begins.  It's - not its - National Grammar DayMarch 4, 2021 - Today is National Grammar Day. march forth on the fourth of March!  Indiana to host all of March MadnessMarch 2, 2021 - Millions of hoops fans will soon have the NCAA Men's and Women's Tournaments to watch.  NASA honors Mary Jackson of Hidden FiguresFeb. 26, 2021 - Mary Jackson was NASA's first African American female engineer.   |
