Warning: The following may contain irony.
Introductory Post by Blogger Peter Kadel
Hello, ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls! People of all ages! It is my privilege to introduce the return of everyone’s favorite blog squad…. The Bird on Fire! We took a brief hiatus because our secret lair was discovered by the Canadian Gopher army. But once we showed those rodents that the pen is mightier than little rodent claws and took back our secret sanctum, writers came in droves to join the crack team. Here is a quick overview of our freshly assembled staff.
Brennen Nick–When he sauntered in wearing a tin foil hat and screaming about the lizard people, we knew that this man was of sound mind and dedicated to telling the truth. You can expect reliable sources and sound logic from this writer.
Claire Jenkins and Shelby Armor–The dynamic duo! Blonde and blonder. Back after spending summer undercover in the criminal underground of Palm Valley. They have returned with evidence that a cold-blooded killer stalks the halls of our school. Be sure to stay tuned for their startling account.
Charles Schnell–Yeah, I think he has like some poems or stories or whatever.
Renee Vazquez–After we regained our lair, a flock of storks arrived and dropped Renee on our doorstep. When we asked her if she liked writing, she responded with an enthusiastic shout of “Yeah, sure.”
Harlow Berny–Perhaps the most mysterious member of our staff–he arrived dressed in a black cloak in the dead of night. He would only give us his name, and when we asked him what he wanted to write, he said, “ Stories of old made new.”
Makena Behnke–Another gift from our feathery overlords, dropped at our door shortly after Renee. When she landed, the lead stork said, “The prophecy is complete” and burst into flames as it flew off into the sunset.
Peter Kadel–The Harbinger of Joy, the Dragon of West Virginia, the man voted most likely to cheat death. After a stint as a guerilla journalist for Word from the Bird he has joined up with the Bird on Fire once we appeased him with offerings of plastic toy dinosaurs.
The Overlord–The mastermind of it all, the one who defeated the Gopher King, better known to you as mild mannered Ms. Zachik. We know her as the vicious pit boss who cracks the whip and lights fires under writers who work too slowly.
And so, there you have it folks, back with a new team following the same dream! Stay tuned as we bombard you with WORDS.
when he says to Roderigo, “In following him [Othello], I follow but myself” (1.1.64). Iago follows Othello because he wants higher positions and more power, rather than to be a loyal officer of Othello. When he admits, “I am not what I am” (1.1.70), not only does he mean that he is not this seemingly good honest person that Othello believes him to be, but also that he is not the person who seems to care about others; he implies that what he truly cares about is only himself.
This weapon is the most powerful explosive device ever built by human beings. Designed by the Soviets in 1960, this device had a yield of 50 megaton TNT–3,800 times more powerful than theHiroshima bomb. However, it was not designed in 50 megaton TNT; it was designed actually to be 100 megaton TNT. For a Hydrogen bomb like that, there is no place in the world that the weapon could be tested safely. That was the reason that the final explosion was only 50 megaton. It was not designed to put into real use. The Soviets were threatening Americans by the explosion of the Czar Bomba. It was designed to be a threat. When it was exploded and tested, the fireball could be seen more than 1,000 kilometers away–that’s more than 600 miles or three times the distance to Los Angeles from Rancho Mirage. The hot wind would givehuman beings 170 kilometers away 3rd degree burns. The explosion ranked second among all the explosions in the world.
(Note: the largest explosion made dinosaurs extent.)
possible Soviet invasion.
The weapon is not a relatively powerful nuke, only yielding 10 tons TNT payload. A Davy Crockett can only cause damage in a 2.5 mile range. However, that is the reason this weapon is crazy. Because this nuke is so small, it must be fired at close range with a handheld cannon. The radiation caused by firing this weapon at close range might harm the very soldiers who fired the weapon. What’s more, the weapon was designed to use in a conventional battlefield. The idea of using a nuclear weapon conventionally is crazy! How could this be common practice on the battlefield?
NASA, in the 1950s, worked on a project meant to send astronauts to Mars. This plan to send rockets to Mars sounds like it has nothing to do with nuclear weapons. However, it was one of the craziest ideas regarding the use of nuclear weapons.
Crazy was using nuclear weapons in the 60’s to remove rocks and mountains for road access and construction. However, this idea is the craziest. Americans were trying to use nuclear weapons as fuel for rockets! NASA was trying to use the enormous force that nuclear weapon explosions could produce to propel rockets.
The plan was so outrageous and so dangerous. They couldn’t steer a nuclear-explosion-powered rocket. The power itself is uncontrollable. The plan was to explode nuclear weapons–one by one–to push the rockets to Mars. In fact, NASA cancelled the plan in a short time.
x became a top team in the league after its victory in the 1917 World Series, Charles Comiskey, the owner of the team, was known for underpaying his players. White Sox players resented Comiskey. Because the players were unable to leave their contracts, they turned to gamblers in an effort to make some extra cash. In return for a huge payoff, eight White Sox players decided to fix the World Series. They intentionally lost as large bets kept piling up for Cincinnati. After seven games, the Cincinnati Reds won the Series. The public caught wind of the massive scandal in the 1920 season, and a grand jury assembled to investigate. All eight players were acquitted in a criminal trial in 1921, but they did not escape unscathed. The Commissioner of Baseball, Kenesaw Landis, issued a statement following the acquittal. He said, “Regardless of the verdict of juries, no player who throws a ball game, no player who undertakes or promises to throw a ball game, no player who sits in confidence with a bunch of crooked ballplayers and gamblers, where the ways and means of throwing a game are discussed and does not promptly tell his club about it, will ever play professional baseball.” All eight players were indefinitely suspended from playing professional baseball. The huge scandal was dubbed the Curse of the Black Sox.A World Series victory had eluded Chicago for 76 years. In 2005, the curse was finally broken as the Chicago White Sox swept the Houston Astros and won the championship!
ent pasta there, for example: spaghetti, bucatini, macaroni, penne, rigatoni and very popular in America, my lovely fettuccine. France loves to make meat in every possible way; it is the same with sea food and French wines. You will taste French wine just one time (the drinking age in France is 18), a
nd you will never want any other. It doesn’t matter if it is red, white or pink, all of them have spectacular taste. When we talk about gourmets, we must not forget Germany. It is well known for schnitzel (fried chicken breast), different kinds of sausages, and beer. Speaking of beer, the Czech Republic is a big distributor of this golden drink and not just that. Czech cuisine is known for Svíčková na smetaně served with dumplings, whipped cream and cranberries, roast pork with dumplings and sauerkraut, and roasted duck with potato dumplings and braised red cabbage. If you still don’t have enough good European food, you can go to Holland and try some of their cheeses, and in Switzerland your heart can be melted by delicious chocolate.