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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Scientists recently found out there is 100 times more water on the moon than they thought there was.
Scientists discovered the water when they looked at some pieces of moon rock.
They found water in tiny samples of magma, which was trapped in crystal. Magma is a rock made from cooled lava.
Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield told Teaching Kids the News that the water is a very valuable discovery.
“It’s like finding diamonds or gold in a remote frontier,” Hadfield said.
It was one game, winner-take-all.
And in the end, Boston took home the Stanley Cup.
There wasn’t an empty seat in the Rogers Arena in Vancouver. The hometown crowd waved “rally towels” as their Vancouver Canucks skated out for their warm-up. The thunderous cheering of the crowd never let up. Canuck Goaltender Roberto Luongo shifted from side to side in front of his net.
The crowd took up the singing of O Canada.
If Vancouver could bring the Cup back home, the game would go down in Canadian history.
But it wasn’t to be.
When Thessa’s birthday was coming up, she decided to throw a party. After all, it wasn’t every day a girl turned 16!
So, as many kids do these days, Thessa posted an invitation to her party on Facebook. She wanted all of her friends to come.
But she made a big mistake. She forgot to set her Facebook invitation to “Friends Only.”
More and more people saw the invitation and signed up to come to the party.
They sent it to their friends and told more people about it… and before long, more than 15,000 people had confirmed on Facebook that they were coming to the party.
There has been a serious outbreak of E. coli in Europe.
At least 2,200 people have gotten sick or shown symptoms and 22 people in Germany have died.
E. coli is short for Escherichia coli. It is a type of bacteria normally found in the body.
Most kinds (or “strains”) of E. coli are harmless and even help the body.
The strains included in the outbreak, however, are a harmful kind, causing food poisoning.
Food poisoning from E. coli usually happens when people eat unwashed vegetables or undercooked meat.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper was the victim of a practical joke, or “hoax,” on Tuesday.
Someone broke into the website of the Conservative party. (Harper is the leader of the Conservatives.) They posted a fake article about him.
The article said Harper had been rushed to hospital after he had choked on some hash browns at breakfast.
It said that his wife, Laureen, called 911 because the Prime Minister couldn’t breathe and that he was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Toronto.
If you took a university math exam, how do you think you’d do?
Paula and Peter Imafidon are nine-year-old twins. They live in England, and last year they became the youngest people to ever pass Cambridge University’s advanced mathematics exam.
A reporter asked them how hard they had to work in order to pass the exam. Paula said she treats math like a game, so it’s not really “work” to her.
Peter said the exam had some questions that “may seem difficult but are very easy once you get in the swing of it.” Of course, Peter is speaking as someone to whom math comes very easy—the questions are very tough, especially for kids their age.
The family’s other children, Anne-Marie, Christiana and Samantha are also exceptionally good at math.
Jane Austen wrote some very famous novels in the early 1800s. Pride and Prejudice is perhaps her best-known book.
Although she published just six novels, she has millions of fans all over the world. They adore her novels about romance and society.
An extremely rare manuscript of an unfinished novel, written in Jane Austen’s own handwriting, is going to be sold in England.
There are 68 pages, part of a novel called The Watsons. Jane Austen never finished it, possibly because her father died. She wrote the pages in 1804, when she was 29 years old.
Austen’s first novel, Sense and Sensibility, was not published until 1811.
The Watsons pages are written in her neat and tiny handwriting with many edits in the margins. The manuscript was divided by Austen into 11 booklets.
Last week, millions of people around the world said farewell to The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Oprah, one of the world’s best-known celebrities, aired the very last episode of her show on May 25.
The Oprah Winfrey Show was on TV every week day for 25 years. That is longer than most talk shows in the United States.
Oprah became famous as the host of The Oprah Winfrey Show. Her show aired in 145 countries, so she isn’t just famous in the U.S. and Canada.
Both celebrities and non-celebrities felt comfortable talking to Oprah, sometimes about emotional or difficult things.
Oprah spoke to ordinary people with interesting stories. She spoke to people who had overcome hard things in life, like accidents or unhappy families.
When you want to know more about something, you check it out, right? That’s exactly what scientists at NASA are doing.
They want to know more about an object in space they call Vesta. Is it an asteroid? A planet? What exactly is it?
Two months ago, they launched the Dawn spacecraft. Its job is to orbit and observe Vesta.
Vesta is officially listed by NASA as a “minor planet,” which means that it is an object orbiting around the sun.
But Vesta isn’t really a planet at all. It’s simply an object in space.
It has also been called an asteroid, a dwarf planet (a tiny planet), and a protoplanet, which is an object that started the same way as other planets, like Venus and Mercury, but never fully developed.
Winnipeg will have an NHL hockey team again.
It hasn’t had its own team since 1996, when the Winnipeg Jets left town to become the Pheonix Coyotes. People in Winnipeg are celebrating.
This week, the NHL (National Hockey League) said they had reached a deal to move the Atlanta Thrashers to Winnipeg. The team will play next season.
The announcement was made at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg. (Winnipeg is the capital of Manitoba.) As soon as it was made, thousands of people clapped and cheered. They also started singing “The Hockey Song,” a song made famous by Canadian singer Stompin’ Tom Connors. The song is a kind of “Canadian anthem” for hockey fans.
