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What do Animals do During Thunderstorms?
During what seemed to be a typical thunderstorm, a tragic event occurred for my family in North Carolina. During the storm, a squirrel who was trying to find shelter crawled into their electrical transformer and was electrocuted. The electrocution caused a devastating fire that claimed their North Carolina home. It was a freak of nature,…
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Why is the Oregon Trail Important?
As a child of the 1980s who went to a progressive, wealthy school district (I was not wealthy), we had the opportunity to utilize and play with some of the first computers tailored for educational use. They were the original Macintosh personal computers, and our elementary school had thirty-five of them. Each week, a classroom…
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Best Thing About the City of Vancouver
For the third year in a row now, British Colombia Vancouver ranked in the top 10 most livable cities in the world in the EIU Global Liveability Index 2024. Vancouver and Calgary are now the only Canadian cities to be included in the list by the Economic Intelligence Unit, the research and analysis division of…