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Saturday, May 22, 2010

information about china and gun powder and thingys.

Like the idea of zero, gunpowder developed gradually over time. In 142 AD, during the Han Dynasty, a man named Wei Boyang was the first to write anything about gunpowder. He wrote about a mixture of three powders that would "fly and dance" violently. We aren't sure that he meant gunpowder, but that's the only explosive that uses three ingredients that we know of. He may have been a Taoist trying to find a potion to let you live forever.

By 300 AD, a Chin dynasty scientist named Ge Hong had certainly written down the ingredients of gunpowder and described the explosion. Scientists made gunpowder by mixing sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter, or potassium nitrate. You get sulphur by mining it out of the ground, where it exists naturally as a yellowish rock. You can make potassium nitrate, or saltpeter, by taking animal manure and letting it sit around for a while and decay. Then potassium nitrate crystals formed in the manure, and you could drain them off by washing water through the manure pile. You mix the three powders together, using about fifteen parts of saltpeter to three parts of charcoal and two parts of sulphur. The reason gunpowder explodes is that it burns very fast, and when it burns it releases gases that are bigger in volume than the original powder (just the way steam is bigger than water is).

But it was under the rule of the T'ang Dynasty, about 700 AD, that people really began to use gunpowder. T'ang Dynasty emperors used gunpowder to put on great fireworks displays. By 904 AD, Chinese inventors saw that you could also use gunpowder for a powerful weapon. First the army used gunpowder in the form of rockets. They put small stone cannonballs inside bamboo tubes and shot the cannonballs out by lighting gunpowder at one end. This is the same idea that makes guns and cannons work today.

The Chinese emperors tried to keep their discovery secret, but by the 1100's AD their secret had gotten out, and people in the Islamic Empire and then the Roman Empire began to understand how to use gunpowder for weapons. After that, it wasn't long before people in Europe also learned how to use gunpowder. We aren't sure exactly how they found out, but it might have something to do with the Third Crusade. By 1216 AD, a monk named Roger Bacon in England described gunpowder as a weapon. He thought of it as something that came from foreign places.

Friday, May 21, 2010

i dont love you

Well, when you go,
So never think I'll make you turn to stay.
And maybe when you get back,
I'll be off to find another way.

When after all this time that you still owe,
You're still the good-for-nothin', I don't know.
So take your gloves and get up,
Baby, get up
While you can!

When you go,
Would you even turn to say,

"I don't love you
Like I did
Yesterday!"?

Sometimes I'll cry so hard from pleading,
So sick and sad of all the needless beating.
But baby, when they knock you
Down and out,
It's where you oughta stay.

And after all the blood that you still owe
Another dollar's just another blow.
So fix your eyes and get up,
Baby, get up
While you can!

Whoa, who-o-oaha-ha!
When you go,
Would you even turn to say,

"I don't love you
Like I did
Yesterday!"?

Well, come on, come on!

When you go,
Would you have the guts to say,

"I don't love you
Like I loved you
Yesterday-hay-hay!"? Oh-oh!

"I don't love you
Like I loved you
Yesterday-hay-hay!"

"I don't love you
Like I loved you
Yesterday!"

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Simply Delicious!

lol a la marquez

Ingredients
100 cups of lol
2 pounds of chopped lmao
3 teaspoons of omg
1000 cups of milk
4 spagetti
Directions
close the lol under cold water and place them in a(n) smile bowl.
large add the chopped lmao, omg, milk, and spagetti.
far well until all the ingredients are small.
Place spoonfuls of the mixture on a 9” x 12” ha.
Bake 8 minutes at 6 degrees.
Serves 7

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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Saturday, May 1, 2010

I feared love was just a mirage of the mind,
it's was an illusion, was fake, impossible to find.
But the day I met you, I began to see,
that love is real, and exists in me.

My love is like an ocean
It goes down so deep
My love is like a rose
Whose beauty you want to keep.

My love is like a river
That will never end
My love is like a dove
With a beautiful message to send.

My love is like a song
That goes on and on forever
My love is like a prisoner
It's to you that I surrender

All the love that history knows,
is said to be in every rose.
Yet all that could be found in two,
is less than what I feel for you.