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Yes, this is a true story from the American frontier. I got it first-hand from my grandmother who was there as the young schoolteacher in a one-room schoolhouse. All kids brought guns every day. And so did their teacher. Find out why, and find out how they were able to pass exams with questions like the following at age 14:
· If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50cts. Per bu., deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
· Name the parts of the Bill of Rights and explain which rights they protect.
· Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
· Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
· What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $20 per square meter?
· Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
· What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per acre, the distance around which is 640 rods?
· Relate the causes and results of the...
In 1847 Christian immigrants from Holland founded the town of Pella in Iowa. The name is connected to Christian refugees who fled Jerusalem to Pella, a Greek Hellenistic city.
Just down the road is Ottumwa. Earlier this week a City Council meeting began the proceedings with an invocation to Satan:
“Dear Dark Father,
"Let us stand now, unbowed and unfettered by arcane doctrines born of fearful minds in darkened times. Let us embrace the Luciferian impulse to eat from the tree of knowledge and dissipate our blissful and comforting delusions of old."
It ended with the cry, "Hail Satan."
As plague hysteria begins spreading across headlines around the world, there is one detail almost nobody is talking about: governments and military biodefense programs have already poured major resources into developing dozens of plague vaccines.
More than 21 plague-vaccine candidates are under development, spanning mRNA, self-amplifying RNA, recombinant protein, viral-vector, live-attenuated and other technologies.
--- Nicholas Hulscher
