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Tuesday, December 27, 2005

About Dr. Jane Goodall

1.When she was 26 years old, Jane Goodall reach East Africa to study the area's chimpanzee population.

2.Dr. Goodall has written two books, Wild Chimpanzees and In The Shadow of Man.

3.Her scientific articles have appeared in many issues of National Geographic.

About Mother Teresa

1.She was born on August 27, 1910.

2.She died in 1997.

3.She worked in Kolkata (Calcutta), India.

4.It is called the Missionaries of Charity.

5.She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

6.Mother Teresa's original name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. She changed her name to Sister Mary Teresa in India.

Sunday, December 11, 2005

Facts about Yo-Yo Ma

1.Yo-Yo Ma was born to Chinese parents living in Paris.

2.Ma's father started teaching him to play the cello when he was four.

3.In 1978, he won the Avery Fisher Prize, a very special $50,000 prize given to only a few of the world's best musicians.

4.He plays two instruments, a 1733 Montagnana cello from Venice and the 1712 Davidoff Stradivarius.

5.Even though Ma didn’t study music at Harvard, in 1991 the school gave him an honorary Doctorate of Music, their highest degree.

Who is Robert Frost?

Robert Lee Frost(1874-1963) was one of America's best-known and best-loved poets. He was born in San Francisco, but was famous for his poetry of describing the natural beauty in New England. He went to England in 1912 and was recognized as a great poet after he published his two books of poems: A Boy's Will in 1913 and North of Boston in 1914. After the popularity of the success he made in England, he returned back to New England, settled in New Hampshire, and had his poetry- writing and college-teaching career there. Frost usually wrote and spoke in simple language with quiet humor, yet he was wise in the ways of the world. His poems often begin in delight and end in wisdom, revealing universal significance in them, and call for readers' deep thought behind the poems' description of familiar scenes in their ordinary life. Nevertheless, this simplicity of language expressing the universal essence of life and the easy speech patterns and rhymes attract even more people to appreciate the meaning of life and become attached to his poems. No wonder the poet was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943. And that can fully account for the fact that he was considered to be far more popular and more successful than the majority of his contemporaries.

Robert Frost's Most Famous Poem Is...

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

A Poem

Black,
Fat,
My little tricky cat.

You're black like a bat.
I just want to throw you to the vat.
Than you will looks not bad.

You sleep on my bed.
You always bite my leg.
I won't be with you any other day.

Although you are naughty,
But you are lovely.

Sometimes you're friendly.
Greet me passionately.

Although it's weekly.
I'm steel happy.

So,
Let me think...

Inconceivably,
I will let you leave.

Let you live happily,
Be with me.