Good news for football fans everywhere, the referee lockout has ended. This comes after weeks of controversial calls and angry fans. The regular refs will return to the field Thursday night. The referees went on strike before the pre-season began. Th
Read more…A drummer in a band died on stage during a performance. The members around him didn't realize what happened, but kept playing. The reason for death was a heart attack. You have to wonder if he had heart trouble before this. Has anyone ever heard of t
Read more…Usually morning are very simple at a Junior High School in Stillwater, Oklahoma. But on Wednesday it was different and left student in shock. A young eighth grader brought a gun to school and decided to end his life in a hallway. They don't know if i
Read more…There is currently a study going on about the healing properties on mammal skin reproduction. Scientists found a breed of mice called the African spiny mice that can lose up to 60% of the skin on their backs and have it all grow back like it had nev
Read more…In California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law that stated that self-driving cars where legal in California. The company that made the car was Google. They were trying to make a safer car and they may have succeeded in doing so. Some good things that
Read more…A video was released this week which seriously damaged Mitt Romney’s campaign.
This is essentially what he said… about 47% of the people will vote for Obama no matter what. Those 47% will vote that way because they are “dependent upon the government
Read more…Many of you have seen movies in which the beginning depicts a picture and the name of the company who made the movie, but have you ever really wondered why the pictures are what they are. For example:
Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures did not u
Scientists are working to save the clown fish.In the movie Finding Nemo, a little clown fish needs saved, and now environmentalists are saying the species needs saving in real life. They are saying that The coral reefs are being harmed by pollution i
Read more…Take two video-game console cameras and one pair of horn-rimmed glasses and for around $30 you have a device that will allow you to control a computer or, potentially, even a wheelchair with your eyes.
Previously, if you wanted to buy similar eye-trac
Read more…Barely an hour after zookeepers heard the mother panda honk in distress, veterinarians pronounced her cub dead Sunday morning.
Staff at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington said they were heartbroken by the newborn giant panda cub's death, jus
Read more…The leaders of Sudan and South Sudan met Sunday in Ethiopia, attempting to resolve, under international pressure, issues arising from the latter nation's independence just over a year ago.
The creation of South Sudan stemmed from a referendum, agreed
Read more…Authorities in Germany are investigating whether they can prosecute a former Nazi camp guard who has been living in the United States for 60 years, they said Monday.
Prosecutors are probing the case of Johann Breyer, who admits having been a guard at
Read more…Monday marks 150 years since the bloodiest day in U.S. history, the Civil War Battle of Antietam in Maryland, which left almost 23,000 Union and Confederate soldiers dead, wounded, missing or captured.
While Union forces suffered a heavier casualty to
Read more…No assigned Blog for CWI this week.
USH: Pick any topic from Chapter 5-8 that interests and do a blog on it. The topic must be from a Chapter that you did not present from.
Please share events that took place in 1984.
Here are the top 100 songs from 1984:
1. When Doves Cry, Prince and The Revolution
2. What's Love Got to Do With It, Tina Turner
3. Say Say SaySay Say Say, Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson
4. Footloose,
A government minister from Pakistan is offering a $100,000 reward for whoever kills the man who made the Anti-Islam movie. He says that he has invited Al Qaeda and the Taliban to do the assassination. What do you think about this? Here's the story.
Read more…In New Orleans a 57-year-old man came home to his wife who mistook him as an intruder and accidently shot him. The man late died at the hospital. No charges has been filed and the women remains free, as they continue to find new details. The question
Read more…zack presented today it was ok he took most of his information from the show that we watched and he talked about oil and steel and electricity and we watched a movie
Read more…A man at a Chrysler plant slit his co-worker in the throat, then killed himself. The police wondered if it could have been a "love triangle" as the motive to this. No one was for sure, but they knew the two men had on going disputes. The plant went i
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