i'm tired.
but i'll go to izakaya soon.
tomorrow we have a oc class.
let's party. lol
2013年1月31日木曜日
Unit 12
Airplane designer Burt Rutan was14 years old when the USSR launched Sputnik1.
He believed that goverment research into space travel would someday mean he too would be able to journey to space.
However the goverment wasn't going to work.
He wes encourage to build his own spaceship by the history of airplane design itself.
A lot of people tried to fling airplane.
The bad designs crashed , the good design flew.
His optimism finally paid off. In 2004 his designed spaceship, spaceship1, successfully entered space and made it back to earth twice in two weeks.
Those were the requirements to win the ten-million-dollar Ansari X prize, a prize designed to encourage the development of private space travel.
Passengers will float weightless in space for six thrilling minutes as they gaze out at space through a large window.
He believed that goverment research into space travel would someday mean he too would be able to journey to space.
However the goverment wasn't going to work.
He wes encourage to build his own spaceship by the history of airplane design itself.
A lot of people tried to fling airplane.
The bad designs crashed , the good design flew.
His optimism finally paid off. In 2004 his designed spaceship, spaceship1, successfully entered space and made it back to earth twice in two weeks.
Those were the requirements to win the ten-million-dollar Ansari X prize, a prize designed to encourage the development of private space travel.
Passengers will float weightless in space for six thrilling minutes as they gaze out at space through a large window.
Unit 11
The army ants are most frightening creatures on earth.
They have powerful mouth. They acting together in great numbers.
Panama Canal is home to as many as 50 colonies of Ection burchellii.
It is one of 150 types of army ants in the New World, more than 170 other types live in Asia, Africa, and Australia.
They never stay in one place long time.
When they go to hunting, as many as 200000 of them leave the nest in a group that broadens into a fan as wide as 14 meters.
When they happen upon a break in the path, ants immediatly link legs together and
form a living bridge so that the group can move forward without any delay.
They have powerful mouth. They acting together in great numbers.
Panama Canal is home to as many as 50 colonies of Ection burchellii.
It is one of 150 types of army ants in the New World, more than 170 other types live in Asia, Africa, and Australia.
They never stay in one place long time.
When they go to hunting, as many as 200000 of them leave the nest in a group that broadens into a fan as wide as 14 meters.
When they happen upon a break in the path, ants immediatly link legs together and
form a living bridge so that the group can move forward without any delay.
Unit 10
The ski area sits upon a small mountain glacier.
It was already getting smaller when the ski area opened in 1939.
In the past 10 years, however, the glacier has been melting at an increased rate.
The sun then heats the rocks, causing faster melting.
The glaciers of the Himalayas and the Andes could disappear in this century.
As a result, the millions people who now depend on melting water from mountain glaciers.
Greenland's largest outlet glacier, the Jacobshavin Isabeae glacier, is moving toward the sea twice as fast as it was in 1995.
These days, environmental problems become more and more serious.
It was already getting smaller when the ski area opened in 1939.
In the past 10 years, however, the glacier has been melting at an increased rate.
The sun then heats the rocks, causing faster melting.
The glaciers of the Himalayas and the Andes could disappear in this century.
As a result, the millions people who now depend on melting water from mountain glaciers.
Greenland's largest outlet glacier, the Jacobshavin Isabeae glacier, is moving toward the sea twice as fast as it was in 1995.
These days, environmental problems become more and more serious.
Unit 9
The sport of sumo is Japan's traditional style of wrestling.
Sumo was taking place in the seventh century A.D.
Sumo wrestlers are huge men by any standard.
Their average weight is 160 kilos, and there is no weight restriction.
The hawaiian Salevaa Atisanoe, whose sumo name is Konishiki.
His weigh is over 280 kilograms!!!!!!!
Sumo was taking place in the seventh century A.D.
Sumo wrestlers are huge men by any standard.
Their average weight is 160 kilos, and there is no weight restriction.
The hawaiian Salevaa Atisanoe, whose sumo name is Konishiki.
His weigh is over 280 kilograms!!!!!!!
Unit 8
This unit is about Great Explores.
Marco Polo's trip had started more than 9000 kilometers away in Venis when he was just a teenager.
On this second trip the Polos would stay for 17 years.
He was able to learn and experience many things that were new to Europeans.
He admired the Khan's recentry completed new capital. Daidu, whose streets were "so straight and so broad".
Kublai Khan made use of a fast and simple message system.
Horse riders spread every 40 kilometers allowed messages to cover 500 kilometers a day.
I was very suprised that.
Marco Polo's trip had started more than 9000 kilometers away in Venis when he was just a teenager.
On this second trip the Polos would stay for 17 years.
He was able to learn and experience many things that were new to Europeans.
He admired the Khan's recentry completed new capital. Daidu, whose streets were "so straight and so broad".
Kublai Khan made use of a fast and simple message system.
Horse riders spread every 40 kilometers allowed messages to cover 500 kilometers a day.
I was very suprised that.
Unit 7
This unit is about sweet scents.
Flowers can now travel long distances and high-tech cooling systeem.
The country that exports the most cut flowers is the Netherlands.
Some auction house are very large indeed.
An auction house in the sense that Tokyo is a city or Everest a mountain.
Mauricio is the man responsible for starting Ecuador's flower industry some 20 years ago.
Ecuador's roses are renowned for their large heads and long sterms.
His family has TV now.
Some people have remodeled their house.
Flowers can now travel long distances and high-tech cooling systeem.
The country that exports the most cut flowers is the Netherlands.
Some auction house are very large indeed.
An auction house in the sense that Tokyo is a city or Everest a mountain.
Mauricio is the man responsible for starting Ecuador's flower industry some 20 years ago.
Ecuador's roses are renowned for their large heads and long sterms.
His family has TV now.
Some people have remodeled their house.
2013年1月29日火曜日
Peruvian WEAVERS
In a amall village in the Andes, the weaving process starts with just one sheep.
First, people prepare the knife.
Second, they tie up the sheep so that it can't move.
Finally, they use the knife to cut the sheep's winter coat of fool.
These method is very traditional, but these villagers really are part of something new.
Two days in a week, women and girls cut wool from their sheep and llamas.
And they spin the wool and work it into yarn.
Then they make cloth.
The older wpmen are teaching to young girls.
They learn to weave and sell the blankets and clothes.
Weaving is important tradition.
First, people prepare the knife.
Second, they tie up the sheep so that it can't move.
Finally, they use the knife to cut the sheep's winter coat of fool.
These method is very traditional, but these villagers really are part of something new.
Two days in a week, women and girls cut wool from their sheep and llamas.
And they spin the wool and work it into yarn.
Then they make cloth.
The older wpmen are teaching to young girls.
They learn to weave and sell the blankets and clothes.
Weaving is important tradition.
The art of making silk
This book is about silk.Stefano Benelli is one of the craftman at the factory.
He stands over a huge loom and works slowly and carefully.
The handmade silk is very strong and full range of colors and more beautiful.
And handwoven silk makes a special noise and holds whatever shape it is formed to very well.
This doesn't happen with machine-silks.
He stands over a huge loom and works slowly and carefully.
The handmade silk is very strong and full range of colors and more beautiful.
And handwoven silk makes a special noise and holds whatever shape it is formed to very well.
This doesn't happen with machine-silks.
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