This Month in HistoryBy Mason NiebergerJanuary
January 1, Every Year: New Year's Day, the most celebrated holiday in the world January 2, 1960: John F. Kennedy decided in Washington to seek Presidency January 3, 1959: Alaska is admitted into the US as the 49th state. January 4, 1790: President George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address. January 5, 1972: President Richard Nixon signed a bill approving $5.5 billion over six years to build and test the NASA space shuttle. January 6, 1412: Joan of Arc was born in France January 7, 1782: The first US commercial bank opened as the Bank of North America January 8, 1815: The battle of New Orleans occurred, led by General Andrew Jackson January 9, 1913: In 1913 the 37th President, Richard Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California. January 10, 1861: Florida became the third state to secede from the Union in events leading up to the American Civil War. January 11, 1861: Alabama seceded from the Union in events leading to up the American Civil War. January 12, 1996: The first joint American-Russian military operation since World War II occurred as Russian troops arrived to aid in peacekeeping efforts in Bosnia. January 13, 1990: Douglas Wilder of Virginia became the first African American governor in the U.S. as he took the oath of office in Richmond. January 14, 1892: American film pioneer Hal Roach (1892-1992) was born in Elmira, New York. His output included nearly 1,000 movies of all lengths, including the classic Laurel and Hardy comedies. January 15, 1559: Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, was crowned as Elizabeth I in Westminster Abbey January 16, 1992: The twelve-year civil war in El Salvador ended with the signing of a peace treaty in Mexico City. The conflict had claimed over 75,000 lives. January 17, 1706: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Considered the Elder Statesman of the American Revolution, he displayed multiple talents as a printer, author, publisher, philosopher, scientist, diplomat and philanthropist. January 18, 1966: Robert Clifton Weaver was sworn in as the first African American cabinet member in U.S. history, becoming President Lyndon B. Johnson's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. January 19, 1809: Edgar Allan Poe, writer of mystery and suspense was born in Boston Massachusetts January 20, 1942: During the Holocaust, Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's second in command of the SS, convened the Wannsee Conference in Berlin with 15 top Nazi bureaucrats to coordinate the Final Solution (Endlösung) in which the Nazis would attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe, an estimated 11 million people. January 21, 1954: The USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear powered submarine, was launched at Groton, Connecticut. January 22, 1901: Queen Victoria of England died after reigning for 64 years, the longest reign in British history, during which England had become the most powerful empire in the world. January 23, 1937: In Moscow, 17 leading Communists went on trial, accused of participating in a plot engineered by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders. January 24, 1895: Hawaii's monarchy ended as Queen Liliuokalani was forced to abdicate. Hawaii was then annexed by the U.S. And remained a territory until statehood was granted in 1959. January 25, 1959 - An American Airlines Boeing 707 made the first scheduled transcontinental U.S. flight, traveling from California to New York. January 26, 1788 - The British established a settlement at Sydney Harbor in Australia as 11 ships with 778 convicts arrived, setting up a penal colony to relieve overcrowded prisons in England. Photo BombBy Anna Clayborn and Julia CurdHi, this is a feature article where you can enter a photo competition! Send in your photos that answer the prompt and we will choose the winner. We will print the winners in the next issue. Send your photo, as a JPEG, along with your first name, last initial and grade to [email protected].
This issue's competition is: Take a picture of the weirdest thing you can find at Target (RATED G) Please send in your picture by February eleventh |
Recipe of the MonthBy Anna ClaybornPeppermint Muddy Buddies
A yummy crunchy recipe for this winter! Ingredients 6-7 cups of Rice Chex cereal 2 cups of white chocolate melts (use something that is supposed to be used for candy, most white chocolate chips don’t melt down enough 1 ¾ cups crushed candy canes (about 15) Directions Pour the cereal into a large bowl Melt the white candy melts on the stovetop over medium-low heat and stir until smooth Pour the melted white melts over the cereal and fold until covered Dump into large tupperware with a top (or plastic bag) and add crushed candy canes. Shake gently until covered. Pour onto a cookie sheet to cool Enjoy! source: yourcupofcake.com HoroscopesBy Julia Curd, Adena Stein, Sid Bhushan, and Natasha TerekhovaAries (March 20 - April 19) - One morning you will wake up to find a phoenix on your dresser. He threatens to set your room on fire if you do not buy him banana flavored Laffy Taffy. You go buy him the candy, but when you return, you find ashes. Then the ashes transform into an adorable baby bird who then turns you into a ginormous hippo.
Taurus (April 20 - May 19) - Next Friday you will leave your backpack in a taxi. Then you yell “Мой рюкзак в такси!”(My backpack is in a taxi). Gemini (May 20 - June 20) - In your Language Arts class later today your teacher will have everyone go to the roof and go through a magic portal. It takes you to Barbie world where Ken takes everyone on a tour. You sneak off and find a sparkling pair of glasses. You put them on, expecting something wonderfully magical to happen, but nothing happens. Cancer (June 21 - July 21) - Next time you go ice skating you trip and fall (because you were texting while skating) and go through the ice into the land of the ice princess. Her name is Elsa. She locks you in a cage and sings “Let it Go” over and over and over again. You die a tragic death. Leo (July 22 - Aug. 22) Once upon a time in a land far far away, you find a hat. You put on the hat. The end. Virgo (Aug. 23 - Sept. 21) - Next Sunday, a Port-A-Potty appears in Mr. Holmquist’s classroom. Mr. Quincy Yarn, a shy, unnoticeable, distant cousin of Mr. Yarn, needs to use the bathroom so it goes into the Port-A-Potty and never comes out. You are worried, so go inside to check on him. Mr. Quincy Yarn fell into the toilet. You pull him out, and find that he has become Mr. Wire, the nemesis of Mr. Yarn. This is the story of the Creation of Mr. Wire. Libra (Sept. 22 - Oct. 22) When you wake up on Monday morning, you find out that someone stole your fuzzy socks. You travel the world looking for them, but after fifty years you still have not found them. You fall to the earth and cry in agony. Your tears water the ground, and a fuzzy sock tree spirals into the sky. At the very top of the tree, are your fuzzy socks, and on every other branch are more pairs. You are happy and live with fuzzy socks forever. Scorpio (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) On your next birthday, you have a magical party. The cake is full of rainbows, the streamers are sparkly. You hug a beautiful balloon, but it pops and everything turns dark and gloomy. You cry and go home depressed. Sagittarius (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) - This afternoon you find a miniscule box of Chinese food. You open it and find a gigantic fortune cookie. It tells you the story of your life, the entire story. You are told that you will die from poisonous llama spit, so you try to stay away from llamas. This doesn’t work, as a llama disguised as a toilet kills you when you are 1, 568, 932, 140 years old. Capricorn (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19) - Cheeeeeesy pizza. Aquarius (Jan. 20 - Fe. 17) - You are going to be entered into a robotics competition, that makes you build a castle, using a robot, for the Princess Peach, and do awesome and win. Then the other team gets mad and you mysteriously die. The end. Pisces (Feb. 18 - March 19) - You go to bed on Tuesday night feeling tired and ready for sleep. But alas, there are fifty fish in your bed. They eat up your candy land dreams, and you have nightmares of anchovies and fish eyeballs. You wake up with fish slobber, but then it disappears and you realize that you just had too much Swedish Fish yesterday. |
Strange HolidaysBy Natasha TerekhovaJanuary 4th: Trivia Day
January 5th: Whipped Cream Day January 6th: Shortbread Day January 7th: Old Rock Day January 8th: Earth Rotation Day January 9th: Static Electricity Day January 10th: Peculiar People Day January 11th: Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day January 12th: Marzipan Day January 13th: Rubber Duckie Day January 14th: Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day January 15th: Strawberry Ice Cream Day January 16th: Nothing Day January 17th: Ditch your New Year’s Resolutions Day January 18th: Thesaurus Day January 19th: Popcorn Day January 20th: Cheese Lovers Day January 21st: Squirrel Appreciation Day January 22nd: Answer Your Cat’s Questions Day January 23rd: Pie Day January 24th: Visit Your Local Quilt Shop January 25th: Opposite Day January 26th: Australia Day January 27th: Chocolate Cake Day January 28th: Blueberry Pancake Day January 29th: International Fun at Work Day January 30th: Croissant Day January 31th: Backward Day Little to Big NewsBy Ethan HughesColorado: The Avalanche Hockey team was beaten by two teams already, The Chicago Blackhawks and the Tampa Bay Lighting.
United States: A wanted man in Ohio sent a selfie of himself to the police department with the caption “Here is a better photo, that one was terrible”, to replace the mug shot of him. North America: In New York it is now illegal to have fantasy sports because it is supposedly all up to chance and gambling. Australia: The Sydney Opera House was evacuated on January thirteenth because of a potential bomb threat. Random Acts of Kindness
By Adena SteinNew this year to replace the RAK club are the Random Acts of Kindness Nominations! If a teacher or peer sees you doing a random act of kindness, they can go onto the Spectrum Newspaper, and fill out a form with your name, grade, and what you did. You will then be entered into a drawing for a cheesy prize! Good luck dragons!
Use this form to nominate someone: https://goo.gl/KyIUt9 Pro Sports
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mailto:[email protected]. Staff: Editor-in-Chief: Anna Clayborn Staff Adviser: Lisa Wilkins Layout Editor: Julia Curd Assignments Editor: Ethan Hughes Staff Reporters: Chelsea Bandi, Julea Trank-Greene, Anjana Mallya, Mason Nieberger, Natasha Terekhova, Adena Stein, Avery LeBlanc, Samrawit Dishon, Siddhartha Bhushan, Maedee Trank-Greene |