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Are you smarter than an 8th Grader from 1895?

This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 from Salina, KS. USA.
It was taken from the original document on file at the Smoky Valley
Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, KS and reprinted by the
Salina Journal.

Grammar (Time, one hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run.
5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case.
6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
7 – 10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.

Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cts. per bu., deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $20 per m?
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per are, the distance around which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.

U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States.
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of theRebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates:
1607
1620
1800
1849
1865

Orthography (Time, one hour)
1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication?
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
4. Give four substitutes for caret ‘u’.
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final ‘e’. Name two exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono,super.
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd,cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences, Cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and by syllabication.

Geography (Time, one hour)
1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of North America.
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fermandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give inclination of the earth.

Physiology (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Where are the saliva, gastric juice, and bile secreted? What is the use of each in digestion?
2. How does nutrition reach the circulation?
3. What is the function of the liver? Of the kidneys?
4. How would you stop the flow of blood from an artery in the case of a laceration?
5. Give some general directions that you think would be beneficial to preserve the human body in a state of health.

30 Day Song Challenge

http://www.facebook.com/pages/30-Day-Song-Challenge/120874111270003?v=app_4949752878

Day 01 - Favourite Song

Too hard to pick, way too hard to pick. Going to go with favourite song of the year.



Know all the words! May actually upload me rapping along soon!

The world's biggest family: The man with 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren

The world's biggest family: The man with 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:39 PM on 19th February 2011


* Ziona Chana lives with all of them in a 100-room mansion
* His wives take it in turns to share his bed
* It takes 30 whole chickens just to make dinner

He is head of the world's biggest family - and says he is 'blessed' to have his 39 wives.

Ziona Chana also has 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren.

They live in a 100-room, four storey house set amidst the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of 
Mizoram, where the wives sleep in giant communal dormitories.

Too Fierce

Must Listen

Songs ATM 


Glee - Need You Now
Chris Brown - Look at Me Now
Adele - Set fire to the Rain
Nicki Minaj - Super Bass
Glee - Pretty Young Thing

Mubarak

On this day - Humanity was restored in Egypt.


Quotes, etc.




"You cannot comprehend the amount of joy and happiness of every Egyptian at the restoration of our humanity and our freedom."


'Egypt has a "precious moment of opportunity" to move towards "civilian and democratic rule" in Egypt'

'The news is spreading fast through car horns. There is a deafening din as people in the gridlocked traffic shout: "Egypt! Egypt!" and: "The people have won - it's over".

Fireworks can be heard in central Cairo. Huge crowds are heading to Tahrir Square for the victory party.

The square itself is a sea of flags. "We are happy: this is freedom for Egypt," says one man. "This is a celebration for all Egyptians," adds another.

But there are concerns about what comes next. "We want a civilian state, not a military one," comments Taher, who has been camping out for the last few weeks.'

Beyonce to Headline Glastonbury

HURRAH!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12428196

Singer Beyonce Knowles will be one of the headline acts at Glastonbury this year, her record company has announced.

The US pop star will perform on the Pyramid Stage on the last day of the event in Pilton in Somerset, Columbia Records revealed in a statement.

"I'm pumped just thinking about that huge audience and soaking up their energy," the 29-year-old star said.

Organisers of the festival, which runs from 22 to 26 June, have yet to officially announce 2011's line-up.

Tickets for this year's event went on sale in October and sold out in around four hours.

"This really is the biggest festival in the world and I cannot wait to perform there," said Knowles.

"Everyone who attends is really appreciative of music and is in such a good mood that entire weekend."

Last year's line-up included Stevie Wonder, Kylie Minogue and Gorillaz, who stepped in when U2 were forced to pull out.

Funny As - Worst High School Analogies

1. Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.
2. He was as tall as a 6′3″ tree.
3. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
4. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
5. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
6. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
7. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
8. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
9. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
10. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.
11. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife’s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM.
12. The lamp just sat there, like an inanimate object.
13. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
14. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
15. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at asolar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
16. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
17. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
18. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.
19. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
20. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
21. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan’s teeth.
22. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River.
23. Even in his last years, Grand pappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it hadrusted shut.
24. He felt like he was being hunted down like a dog, in a place that hunts dogs, I suppose.
25. She was as easy as the TV Guide crossword.

Black Swan (2010)

Electric, electric, electric! Truly a fantastic achievement in film! Just finished watching it, literally as I speak the credits roll. It's a perfect film, truly a perfect film - length-wise, emotions-wise, detail-wise, script-wise and casting-wise. Fantastic direction and focus throughout the film, felt a little bit like inception.

Absorbing, every single minute was absorbing, few experiences with film like this! Every single moment was absorbing!

The content does warrant some sort of comment; the most powerful message is the nature of art. How the best artists live and breathe their art, they are obsessed with their art, it consumes them. Natalie was outstanding here, perfect balance throughout the film. She played the frigid white Swan just as well as she played the seductive and  expressive Black Swan! Her performance was genuine and profound, lightyears above any other performance in the film, and lightyears away from leading actresses in the last few years.

This is a film that is REALLY worth it's hype. Well done to them! Favourite movie in such a long time! Do wish there was a bit more ballet though, I trained for 17 years as a dancer in Moscow so I really appreciated those aspects of the film. Perhaps that's my only problem, not enough dancing. When they did dance though, the expressiveness and the creativity of the routines were some of the film's strongest assets.

It's a psychological thriller, don't think many expected such an experience, I know I didn't! The best scene other than the lesbian sex scene, has to be where Natalie comes on stage in the second act of Swan Lake, really strong performance! So convincing, so raw, so chilling! It's a great film throughout but perhaps the last 15 minutes or so are where it REALLY hits it's stride!

Natalie Portman is a star! This film is genius! Bravo!

Gomez KILLS IT!

You

So frustrating!