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RE: Educational Thread about Educational Stuff. - Emil - 09-25-2016 J.R.R Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, aka J.R.R Tolkien was a British writer, poet, philogist and professor. He is best known as the author of the Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit and the Silmarillion.
He was born on the 3rd of January, 1892 in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State, part of modern day South Africa. His father was Arthur Reuel Tolkien, an English bank manager, and his mother was Mabel Tolkien. When he was 3 years old, his mother took him to Britain in what was meant to be a lenghthy visit. But his father died of rheumatic fever, which left the family without any income. John was then sent to live with his grandparents at Kings Heath, Birmingham. Later they moved to Sarehole. When he was young, he read a lot of books. He disliked books like Treasure Island but liked stories about Native Americans. In his early teenage years, his cousins had invented their own language, Animalic, while at the same time Tolkien was studying Latin and Anglo-Saxon. While their interest in Animalic soon disappeared, they would create another language, Nevbosh. Tolkien himself would end up creating yet another language by himself, Naffarin. In 1911, Tolkien visited Switzerland, which was an obvious inspiration for parts of the Hobbit which he would later write. When he was 16 years old, he met Edith Mary Bratt who was 3 years older than him. They both fit well together and already in 1909 they thought of themselves as in love. But Tolkiens guardian, Father Morgan, disliked this relationship. He didn't like that he was in love with someone older than him, and especially not a Protestant. Morgan told Tolkien to wait until he was 21, and Tolkien obeyed. On his 21st birthday, Tolkien wrote to Edith, asking her to marry him. Edith had already promised to marry someone else, however this was only because she doubted that Tolkien still cared for her, and she soon agreed. In 1916, they were married, which Tolkien was surprised about. He had no job and no money either at this point. When the First World War started, Tolkien shocked his family by not enlisting immediatly. During these years, young men were expected to enlist and could be shamed for not doing so. He instead enlisted in a program where he would wait until he was done studying. In July 1915, he finished his finals, but by then his family had started to become very pushing to him enlisting. He enlisted and was made a temporary second lieutenant in the Lancashire Fusiliers on the 15th of July. On the 2nd of June, 1916, a telegram was given to Tolkien summoning him for transportation to France. While in France, at one point while waiting to be summoned to his new regiment, he composed a poem called The Lonely Isle, symbolic for his feelings during the sea crossing to Calais, France. In early July, 1916, Tolkien arrived at the Somme, where he participated in assaults on the Schwaben Redoubt and the Leipzig Salient. While Tolkien was in combat, Edith was very worried and stressed about the possibility of getting news of her husbands death. As such, they made a system where he could use dots on letters to show where they were. This was to avoid the British postal censorship at the time. On the 27th of October, 1916, Tolkien came down with trench fever and was sent back to England. This possibly saved him from death, as all but one of his friends died in combat during World War I. In the 1920's, Tolkien undertook translating Beowulf. He finished it in 1926, but he never published it, although his son did in 2014. When World War 2 was approaching, Tolkien was earmarked as a codebreaker. In early 1939 he was asked if he was prepared to serve in the cryptographic department of the Foreign Office, which he said yes to. In March he took an instructional course at the London HQ of the Government Code and Cypher School. In 1948, Tolkien finished writing the Lord of the Rings, nearly a decade after the first sketches. When he retired, over the years up to his death he recieved increasing amounts of public attention and fame. In the start, he was happy to respond to questions, but he soon became unhappy as he had become a cult-figure. In 1971, Edith died at the age of 82, after having been married to Tolkien for more than 50 years. In 1972, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II. In September 1973, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien died, two years after the death of his wife. They were buried in the same grave. RE: Educational Thread about Educational Stuff. - Eclipze - 09-26-2016 Guess i dont have to go to history class anymore RE: Educational Thread about Educational Stuff. - Emil - 09-26-2016 (09-26-2016, 12:51 PM)Eclipze Wrote: Guess i dont have to go to history class anymore Do you have any questions about anything history-related? RE: Educational Thread about Educational Stuff. - Teddy - 09-27-2016 The Suburian Nightmare in 1950
The action was in a Cold War in USA. In a Cold War has some races. One of it was nuclear arms race. So Ameriacan goverments starts to do something. USA makes civil defence propaganda about safety like "What is fallout?". Another find what they make is special radio channels when CCCP drops their nuke. Even in the primary school kids need to know what to do when they will hear nuclear bomb alarm or bomb will explode. [Image: IzikD8V.jpg] Typical American Family watches TV Here's some civil defence propaganda videos. You can learn what to do. You can know what you need to survive. At the least it's goal of this videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOQswEHV5hE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saLwgBKJT7o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuotR1L_EnI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60 If you don't have time you can watch '60 Seconds!' trailer. That trailer is based on that videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL3AI6MYTD8 I hope you enjoyed! RE: Educational Thread about Educational Stuff. - Panda - 09-27-2016 You guys are better History teachers than my current one. RE: Educational Thread about Educational Stuff. - lordofthesilver - 09-27-2016 The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a pivotal moment in the Cold War. Fifty years ago the United States and the Soviet Union stood closer to Armageddon than at any other moment in history. In October 1962 President John F. Kennedy was informed of a U-2 spy-plane’s discovery of Soviet nuclear-tipped missiles in Cuba. The President resolved immediately that this could not stand. Over an intense 13 days, he and his Soviet counterpart Nikita Khrushchev confronted each other “eyeball to eyeball,” each with the power of mutual destruction. A war would have meant the deaths of 100 million Americans and more than 100 million Russians.
Pausing at the nuclear precipice, President Kennedy and the group of advisors he had assembled (known as ExComm) evaluated a number of options. After a week of secret deliberations, he announced the discovery to the world and imposed a naval blockade on further shipments of armaments to Cuba. A tense second week followed, during which neither side backed down. Presented with the choice of attacking or accepting Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, Kennedy rejected both options. Instead, he crafted an alternative with three components: a public deal in which the United States pledged not to invade Cuba if the Soviet Union withdrew its missiles; a private ultimatum threatening to attack Cuba within 24 hours if the offer was rejected; and a secret sweetener that promised to withdraw U.S. missiles from Turkey within six months. The crisis was resolved at the last minute when Khrushchev accepted the U.S. offer.Meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council. October, 29 1962.
RE: Educational Thread about Educational Stuff. - Emil - 09-27-2016 The Great Heathen Army and the Invasion of England
Around 865, the Danish King Ragnar Loðbrók was captured by King Ælla, an English King of Northumbria. By legend, he was then thrown into Ællas pit of snakes and died. His sons were infuriated and in revenge, began assembling an army.
His sons are still legendary Vikings. Halfdan Ragnarrson, Sigurd Snake-In-The-Eye and Ivar the Boneless were all sons of Ragnar and they soon led the army. There are different accounts of how large the army was, none of which has been confirmed but it is safe to say it was one of, if not the largest army of its kind. In 865, the Army landed in East Anglia, where the King gave them horses in exchange to be left in peace. The army then wintered in East Anglia before marching onwards north, arriving and capturing Jórvík (York) in 866. After that, the Army marched into Mercia, taking and staying over for the winter at Nottingham. The Mercians and Wessexians then started a siege of Nottingham but after some time of having a stalemate, both sides agreed to a treaty which allowed the Army to move back to Jórvík and waited the winter over, 869-870. They then marched back to East Anglia, which they quickly conquered. During the conquest, the King of East Anglia was also killed. They then marched towards Wessex. The Wessexian King paid them to leave, and they then moved towards London, staying for the winter, before moving back to Northumbria and Jórvík. After this, they returned to Mercia, conquering it in 874 and staying at Repton for the winter. Only the Kingdom of Wessex was left by the end of 875, and soon the Army attacked Wessex again, where they were finally defeated by Alfred the Great at the Battle of Edington. This resulted in a treaty with the Vikings keeping control of most of the conquered lands, which was known as the Danelaw, owned and controlled by the Danish. RE: Educational Thread about Educational Stuff. - sebasti161 - 09-27-2016 Lego (Danish pronunciation: [lɑjˀɡ̊oːˀ]; stylized LEGO) is a line of plastic construction toys that are manufactured by The Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, Lego, consists of colourful interlocking plastic bricks accompanying an array of gears, figurines called minifigures, and various other parts. Lego pieces can be assembled and connected in many ways, to construct objects; vehicles, buildings, and working robots. Anything constructed can then be taken apart again, and the pieces used to make other objects.[1][2] The Lego Group began manufacturing the interlocking toy bricks in 1949. Since then a global Lego subculture has developed. Supporting movies, games, competitions, and six Legoland amusement parks have been developed under the brand. As of July 2015, 600 billion Lego parts had been produced.[3] In February 2015, Lego replaced Ferrari as Brand Finance's "world's most powerful brand".[4] RE: Educational Thread about Educational Stuff. - Emil - 09-27-2016 (09-27-2016, 04:21 PM)sebasti161 Wrote: Lego Marry me RE: Educational Thread about Educational Stuff. - lordofthesilver - 09-27-2016 [b]Construction Project: Atomic Bomb[/b]
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