Riddle

If I have five oranges, how many oranges do I have?





Answer: six

Intersting fact

William Henry Harrison, one of our presidents, died after being in office for only about one month.

WEIRD HISTORY FACTS!!!

I'm not even sure if some of these are real, but they are for sure interesting!!!


In 1962, the schools in Tanganyika had to be closed because of an outbreak of contagious laughter that lasted for six months!

In ancient China, doctors could receive fees only if their patient was cured. If it deteriorated, they would have to pay the patient. Niagara Falls experienced a break of half an hour in 1848, when an ice jam blocked the source river.

Spider webs were used to cure warts during the Middle Ages.

The custom of shaking hands with the strangers originated to show that both the parties were unarmed.

Kindof funny info...which one do you like the best?

Revelutionary Women

Wow, I never knew that there were so many women who were involved in the Revolutionary War. I did my assignment on Molly Pitcher and I learned a lot about her and the battle she was in.

C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis was an amazing author, but he was also an amazing Christian. When his Mom got cancer and died, he prayed that she would be healed. She was not, and he became bitter at God for a long time. Then, in 1917, he became a student at Oxford University. He loved Oxford, and excelled at it. Some of his friends, including Owen Barfield, talked to him about God and tried to convince him to become a Christian again. He finally did become a Christian. After that he graduated and got married. After being married four years, his wife Joy died. However, C. S. Lewis did not get bitter this time. After that, he went on the write the Chronicles of Narnia and lots of other famous Christian books.

Gladys Alward

I read the biography of Gladys Alward. She was a very amazing women who went to China to be a missionary. She led many people to the Lord. When she arrived in China she helped start the Inn of Eight Happinesses, which was an inn for the mule drivers to stay at. Later on she became the oficial foot inspector. She had to go around and make sure that the feet of girls were not bound anymore. War then came to China and it was a very hard time for the people. Gladys went with her 100 adopted children to live in caves. Later they left the caves and went on a long hard journey to get to the trains. When Gladys got there with her children they went of the trains. Gladys got sick from all of her work and decided to go back to England. But she missed China to bad to stay. Gladys went back to China and countinued her missionary work. She was a very amazing women, and she was very dear to many of the Chinease people. I think Gladys was incredible. She never gave up even when it got hard.

Gladys Aylward

Gladys Aylward was an amazing woman of God. She always wanted to be a missionary to China, but she failed missionary training school, so she had to go there herself. When she finally got enough money to go, Gladys got on a train and started out on the greatest adventure of her life. To make a very long story short, Gladys FINALLY got to her destination after almost freezing to death, almost being kidnapped and sent to work for the Soviets, and almost not finding where she was supposed to go in the first place. The destination she was going to was the house of Mrs. Lawson - an elderly missionary lady who needed someone young to help her. Mrs. Lawson wanted to turn her house (which was actually an old inn) into an inn for mule drivers who drove by the village every day. To make another long story short, they DID turn their inn into a place for the mule drivers to stay, and managed to tell them about Jesus while they were at it.
One day, though, Mrs. Lawson fell off a second-story roof and was mortally injured. Gladys was then put in charge of everything. She did a good job, and with no other English person to talk to, learned the dialect of the village very quickly.
To make the final long story short, Gladys adopted hundreds of orphans and cared for them herself. She even went on a week-long journey by foot with all of her children over the border so that they would be safe from the enemy in World War 2.
Gladys never went back to England until she was forced to because of painful migraines. She literally gave up her life to obey God's calling. Gladys Aylward chose to spend the final years of her life in China - her home.