domingo, 22 de mayo de 2011

DO YOU WANT TO CREATE A NEW ANIMAL?



This is the red-eyed tree frog


Do you want to invent a new animal? Try it.


martes, 17 de mayo de 2011

miércoles, 11 de mayo de 2011

ALEXANDER FLEMING


He was born in Scotland on August 6th, 1881. He died at the age of 73 in London, England.
His best-known discovery is the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mold Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine.
In 1999, a newspaper stated: It was a discovery that would change the course of history. The active ingredient which Fleming named penicillin, turned out to be an infection-fighting agent of enormous potency. When it was finally recognised for what it was, the most efficacious life-saving drug in the world, penicillin would alter forever the treatment of bacterial infections.

sábado, 7 de mayo de 2011

(1860-1937) - SIR JAMES MATTHEW, BARRIE



Scottish journalist, playwright and children's book writer. Barrie became world famous with his play and story about PETER PAN (1904), the boy who lived in Never Land, had a war with Captain Hook, and would not grow up.

When Barrie was seven, his brother David died in a skating accident. David had been the mother's favorite child, and she fell into depression.

At the age of 13, Barrie left his home village. At school he became interested in theatre. In 1894 he married Mary Ansell, who had appeared in his play WALKER, LONDON.

He also wrote: DEAR BRUTUS, MARY ROSE, THE LITTLE WHITE BIRD...

THE VICTORIA FALLS



If you want to watch a video about the Victoria Falls click here:




The Victoria falls is 1 708 meters wide, making it the largest curtain of water in the world.

The Local people call it "Mosi-oa-Tunya" -- the smoke that thunders.

DAVID LIVINGSTON



D. Livingston was a Scottish missionary, doctor and explorer. His travels covered one-third of Africa, from the Cape to near the Equator and from the Atlantic to the Indic Ocean.

At the age of ten the boy commenced work in a cotton factory. It was the father's custom to lock the door at dusk. One evening David was a little late in returning to the house. Knowing it was of no use to knock on the door, he calmly sat down on the doorstep to spend the night.

He lost contact with the outside world for six years and was ill for most of the last four years of his life.


He died the 1st of may 1873 at the age of 60. The cause of his dead was malaria and dysentery.