There were both games of dexterity and games of chance, and betting was also customary. In addition, there were games for children. Later, modern cards and card games were adopted from Whites. Games were played by men, by women, and by the children, but only rarely did the two sexes, as adults, play together.
“When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history."
- Rusty Schweikart, Apollo 9 Astronaut
By the end of 2021, NASA plans to launch three significant missions. One will help protect us from a big impact; another starts the journey to have astronauts walk on the moon again. The last one will send into orbit the world’s most powerful space telescope.
“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” ~Madeleine L'Engle, Writer
Sky & Space Preview for 2017
The new year is a great time to explore some prime time space events – after all, 2017 is a good prime number. Let’s take an in-depth look at three exciting celestial happenings and preview the entire 2017 calendar.
The German state covered a large geographic area but for most of its early history it was subdivided into various tribal territories that eventually formed into competing principalities of feudal lords who were all under one ruler. Various dialects of the German language helped to form a German culture and forged ethnic connections with Slavic and Baltic groups as well as imperial alliances with Italy and the Germanic-speaking areas of modern Austria and Poland.
Wild rice is not a true rice, but rather a cereal grass -- Zizania aquatica -- which grows in shallow lakes and streams. It ripens in late summer, usually from the middle of August to early September. Native people in the Great Lakes boiled rice and ate it with corn, beans, or squash. Meat, a small amount of grease, or maple sugar was often added for seasoning. As a treat, it was occasionally parched like popcorn.
“Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way?”
- Henry David Thoreau, American naturalist and writer