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Wednesday, 18 June 2014

GOOD BYE

Our students grow. Time has come to leave us and start thinking about

Secondary Education.

GOOD BYE 6TH LEVEL

ALL THE BEST

Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Happy 80th Birthday!!!

Donald in 1934

Donald Duck

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Donald Fauntleroy Duck or Donald Duck is a funny animal cartoon character created by Dick Lundy in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor suit with a cap and a black or red bow tie. Donald is most famous for his semi-intelligible speech and his mischievous and irritable personality. Along with his friend Mickey Mouse, Donald is one of the most popular Disney characters and was included in TV Guide's list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters

Donald today

of all time in 2002. He has appeared in more films than any other Disney character, listed as appearing in approximately 178 theatrical films compared to Mickey Mouse's 137, and is the fifth most published comic book character in the world after Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and Wolverine.

Donald Duck rose to fame with his comedic roles in animated cartoons. His distinctive voice was created by Clarence Nash, who performed the role for 50 years. Donald's first appearance was in The Wise Little Hen (June 9, 1934), but it was his second appearance in Orphan's Benefit which introduced him as a temperamental comic foil to Mickey Mouse.

Saturday, 7 June 2014

Congratulations

Indian girl, 13, becomes youngest girl to climb Mount Everest

Malavath Poorna makes history.

On Sunday 25th May 2014, the 13-year-old daughter of poor Indian farmers became the youngest girl to climb Mount Everest.

At a press conference held on Wednesday 4th June 2014, she revealed that she “shed joyful tears” at the summit after a grueling climb.

According to Associated Press, Nepal requires climbers to be at

least 16 years old to scale its peak, but she and a team of Nepalese climbing guides made it to the top on May 25th from the northern side in Tibet. China has no age restrictions.

Malavath says “it was very difficult. Every step is a dangerous step”, and she saw “six dead bodies. I was shocked. Oh my God, I got some fear.”

Malavath said her parents, impoverished farmers from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, encouraged her during eight months of training despite the fact that she had never before been on a mountain. Her family are dalits, once known as "untouchables," at the bottom of India's ancient caste system.

The climb was verified by the China Tibet Mountaineering Association in Lhasa, making Malavath the youngest girl to climb Everest. American Jordan Romero, from Big Bear, California, became the youngest boy at age 13 to reach the summit — also from the Tibetan side — in 2010.

The journey was sponsored by the Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Residential Educational Institution Society, as part of its program to help underprivileged children.

Jordan Romero

The Yeti (L5U8)

The Yeti or Abominable Snowman (Nepali: lit. "mountain man") is an ape-like cryptic taller than an average human that is said to inhabit the Himalayan region of Nepal and Tibet. The names Yeti and Meh-Teh are commonly used by the people indigenous to the region, and are part of their history and mythology. Stories of the Yeti first emerged as a facet of Western popular culture in the 19th century.

The scientific community generally regards the Yeti as a legend, given the lack of conclusive evidence, but it remains one of the most famous creatures of crypto zoology. Analysis of samples associated with claimed yetis found a sequence of mitochondrial DNA that matched a sample from an ancient polar bear jawbone found in Norway, that dates back to between 40,000 and 120,000 years ago.

Thursday, 29 May 2014

HAPPY 50th BIRTHDAY!!!

The opening title sequence of the original 1963 The Pink Panther film was such a success with the United Artists executives that they decided to adapt the title sequence into a series of theatrical animated shorts. DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, run by former Warner Bros.

Cartoons creators David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng produced the opening sequences, with Freleng as director. United Artists commissioned a long series of The Pink Panther shorts, the first of which, 1964's The Pink Phink, won the 1964 Academy Award for Animated Short Film. This was the first- and to date only time- a studio's first work won an Oscar.