I can realat to that

"I cannot live without books." 

~Thomas Jefferson~ 

 

I've never really cared for Thomas Jefferson because he didn't like Patrick Henry and Patrick Henry is kind of my "Historical Hero" if there is such a thing (?).
But if he said this, well.... maybe he's an O.K. guy. I mean really, who can live without books? They are AMAZING!  

Well Bye, 

®achel™

I'm impressed

Benjamin Rush Could speak Latin, Greek, German, French and a little of Spanish and Italian.
I know I'm impressed. I'm not much good at different languages.

I was thinking the other day about all the things Benjamin Rush could say and no one would know what he was saying. Benjamin Rush was also a Dr. so that could have come in handy....

"Usted tiene una enfermedad incurable."

"You have an incurable disease. "

"Ich habe keine Ahnung, was mit Ihnen falsch ist."

"I have no idea what is wrong with you."

"C'est quelque chose que je n'ai avant jamais vue."

"This is something I've never seen before."

"Il mio consiglio è di vivere come stavate morendo."

"My advice is to live like you were dying."

"¡Espero esto no sea lo que pienso que es!"

"I hope this is not what I think it is!" 



I had a little free time and see what came out of it!
Maybe next time I'll just read another book. Books are awesome! I just had to put that in there. I'm addicted to books but I'm a really slow reader so I'm still at the point were I can talk about a every book I liked/loved for weeks afterward. (Or mouths. Or years.)
If I read any more than I did I wouldn't be able to tell everyone about ever good book I read.

Anyway this is not what I started out talking about so I guess I should just stop.
Still I think I might learn some phrases in strange languages just so I can say things and then say 'Oh don't you know what that means? Well of course you don't it's in German.'
O.K. I need to go because this is silly.

Well Bye,
®achel™

Top Secret!

I don't know if you caught on to this yet, but, I really really like the 17 hundreds.
I liked this picture a lot more than you probably will, but I still had to post it.

I like to think about the fact that the men who wrote the Constitution of the U.S. were just people too. Just because they graduated from college by the time kids now a days finish high school doesn't mean they weren't human.

I think the picture is  kinda cute. Not the guard of course. (I don't like guys with long hair) but the little boy and girl are really cute. Her head is like the size of the doorknob (in case you didn't notice).

Oh and by the way you might understand the picture better if you knew that it is during the Constitutional Convention and that all the members of the Convention were not allowed to tell anyone about what was going on inside the room.

It worked too. No one told. I would think with that many people, someone would have told something, and it would have spread. But maybe people kept their mouths shut better back then. I couldn't have stayed quiet that long I don't think. I would have had to tell people what I thought of the new Constitution. 



Well bey,

 ®achel™

The Snowflake Man

 

"Perhaps no natural phenomenon occurring upon the earth is more of an object lesson, or portrays more fully both the power and majesty, and the gentleness of the Creator, than does a wide spread snowstorm."

~Wilson Bentley~

 

I like to call him The Snowflake Man. I just read about Wilson Bentley in school and I really liked him. 

I'll give you the 'text' vision of his life so you can be smarter today than you were yesterday and you still want get bored with me. (Unless you already know about him in which case.... I'm glad for you!)

  1. At 15 Wilson Bentley's mother gave him an old microscope. 

  2. On his 17th birthday his family gave him a camera. (At the time the camera could only be bought with an entire year's pay for a farmer and his father was a farmer. I think it sounds like Wilson had a really sweet Dad. Just like me!)

  3. When he was 19 Wilson became the first person to photograph a snowflake. 

  4. In an article he wrote Wilson Bentley declared his belief that no two snowflakes were the same. 

  5. Before his death he published his book "Snow Crystals" and it is still in print today.





Well Bye,

 ®achel™

The Outsider

 Alexander Hamilton:The outsider

I really like American history so this was especially interesting to me but I think a lot of people would like it. (Or at least I like to think they would.) I’ve been trying to work out the whole Anti-federalist, Federalist, Democratic-Republican thing for a long time and this book really helped me. (If all that I just said made zero since than you might want to read this book.)
This was a simple but very well written book. I really enjoyed it.
This would be an excellent moment to tell my opinion of Mr. Hamilton but this is a book review not a political debate.

Jean Fritz is a really good author who has written many good biographies. She always makes you like the ‘hero’ of the book even if in another book you might not agree with what he did or might not like him.
Her description really well done and everything is really clear.
If you are going to be reading a book about the starting of American government this is a really good (and short which is always a good thing for me) book to read.
Or if you’re like me and just read history books for ‘fun’ than that is even better and you might to try this one out.

“The Outsider” is a short book but don’t scorn it because of it’s length, there is a lot of stuff in it that you probably don’t know.

Genres: Non-Fiction, United States history, United States Government, Biographies,

Copy right: 2010

Page count: 144 

B.T.W.
Jean Fritz also writes young children’s biographies that are really cute. “Then What Happened Paul Revere”, “Where was Patrick Henry on the Twenty Ninth of May”, Why don’t you get a Horse Sam Adams?”, and “Cant You Make Them Behave King George” are some great ones.

And as a little side note, Erin and I always thought that Alexander Hamilton was the best looking face on any of our money. He looks as if he were trying not to smile at something. Just so you know. 

Well Bye, 

®achel™

From 5 to 12

I was looking at 'The U.S. Constitution for Dummies' and found this. 

I got a laugh at it and thought you might too. 

Well Bye,
®achel™ 

Just the first Act ot the Drama

Day 365

“The American war is over; but this [is] far from being the case with the American revolution, on the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection.”  

~Benjamin Rush~

This quotations seemed fitting to close this very long process with. I have done 365 day; this was a leap year but I did not do a post on Christmas. I hope you understood most of the quotations and liked some of them. Patrick Henry is probably my favorite concerning politics; Thomas Jefferson for something new and fun; John and Abigail Adams for sweet and sappy; And Benjamin Franklin for just saying the most stuff all around. 

I still love quotations. This did not kill my love for them and you will see a lot more in the near future, although not everyday.  

Happy new year! 

Well Bye, 

®achel™  

Beating the Tea

Day 351

“After we had cleared the ships of the tea, it was discovered that very considerable quantities of it were floating upon the surface of the water; and to prevent the possibility of any of ifs being saved for use, a number of small boats ere manned by sailors and citizens, who rowed them into those parts of the harbor wherever the tea was visible, and by beating it with oars and paddles so thoroughly drenched it as to render its entire destruction inevitable.”  

~George Hewes~ a Mohawk on the ships on December 16 1773

 

This is one of my favorite quotations I found this year. It makes them sound so real; to think of all those men with funny hair going out in their boats to beat the tea it's really a very funny picture. 

I guess. If you don't have anything else to laugh at.

Maybe it might just be funny to me. 

Hope you like it anyway. 

Well Bye, 

®achel™

Boston Tea Party

Day 350

~December 16, 1775~

“This destruction of the tea is so bold, so daring, so firm, intrepid and inflexible, and it must have so important cosequeneses, and so lasting, that I can’t but consider it as an epocha in History.”

~John Adams~

 

 

 

The day before the Boston Tea Party

Day 349

Rally mohawks! Bring out your axes

And tell King George we’ll pay no taxes

On his foreign tea!

 

 

 

Fiction/History

Day 343

"Some of the most agreeable moments of my life have been spent in reading works of imagination which have this advantage over history that the incidents of the former may be dressed in the most interesting form, while those of the latter must be confined to fact. They cannot therefore present virtue in the best and vice in the worst forms possible, as the former may."

~Thomas Jefferson~ 

Every child in America...

Day 324

"Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country." 

~Noah Webster~ 

 

 

 

Opinions

Day 323

 ~Thomas Jefferson's opinion of George Washington~

"Although in the circle of his friends, where he might be unreserved with safety, he took a free share in conversation his colloquial talents were not above mediocrity, possessing neither copiousness of ideas, nor fluency of words. In public, when called on for a sudden opinion, he was unready, short and embarrassed."

 

 

 

Free system of commerce

Day 320

"I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic — it is also a truth, that if industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out."

~James Madison~ 

 

 

 

 

Perpetual Union

Day 318

 

"The Delegates of the United States of America in Congress assembled did on the fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-seven, and in the Second Year of the Independence of America agree to certain articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the States...

The stile of this confederacy shall be "The United States of America."

~Articles of Confederation~

God is Just

Day 317

"Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever." 

~Thomas Jefferson~

He is a complete gentleman

Day 314

“You will doubtless have been informed that the Congress have unanimously appointed George Washington, Esqr. General and Commander in Chief of the American forces. I beg leave and recommend him to your respectful notice. He is a complete gentleman. He is sensible, amiable, virtuous, modest, and brave. I promise myself that your acquaintance with him will afford you great pleasure, and I doubt not his agreeable behavior and good conduct will give great Satisfaction to our people of all denominations.”     

~Thomas Cushing to James Bowdoinsr~

If....

Day 312

“[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”

~Daniel Webster~

Impartial Justice

Day 310

"The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens."

~Thomas Jefferson~ 

What I Live for

I Live for those who love me,

Whose hearts are kind and true;

For the heaven that smiles above me,

And awaits my spirit, too;

For all human ties that bind me,

For the task my God assigned me,

For the bright hopes left behind me,

And the good that I can do.

I live to learn their story,

Who suffered for my sake;

To emulate their glory,

And follow in their wake;

Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages,

The noble of all ages,

Whose deeds crown History’s pages,

And Time’s great volume make.

I live to hail that season,

By gifted minds foretold,

When man shall live by reason,

And not alone by gold;

When man to man united,

And every wrong thing righted,

The whole world shall be lighted

As Eden was of old.

I live for those who love me,

For those who know me true;

For the heaven that smiles above me,

And awaits my spirit, too;

For the cause that needs assistance,

For the wrongs that need resistance,

For the future in the distance,

And the good that I can do!

~From McGuffey’s fifth reader~ 

I really loved this poem!