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Thursday, May 11, 2006

Alaska Ferries

We traveled on two different ferries.
The first ferry we rode on was the FVF Chenega.
We went from Haines Alaska to Juneau in 3:00 hours.
It was a fast ferry; it travels at 60kms an hour

We came back march the 31, on the Taku it was a slower ferry, and it took 5 hours to come back. It is 107m long; 23m wide. It travels at about 34 kph.

It has a capacity of 450 passengers, and 69 vehicles. it has hot food cafeteria, bar, solarium, forward, aft, recliner, movie, and business lounges , gift shop.
It has 8 four-birth cabins and 36 two-birth cabins.
I like the Taku the best because it has bigger rooms then the Chegena.
I think the ferries are very cool.

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History of the De Havilland Beaver

August 16, 1947 was the first ever flight of the de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver. The Beaver was designed and built in response to all the demands of Canadian Bush operators. With its all-metal construction and the ingenious high lift wing and flap configuration, the Beaver was a robust aircraft with excellent short take off and landing capability even with heavy loads. In addition to it’s success in Canada. The Beaver found acceptance in countries all over the world. The Beaver was such a success that more were built than any other aircraft designed and manufactured in the world. In 1951 it won both the US Air Force and US Army utility aircraft award. Many were used in Korea where it was a known as the “Generals Jeep”.

                          Specifications
Wing span: 48ft
Length: 30ft 4in
Height: 9ft
Cruise Speed: 130mph or 209km/h
Max Speed: 160mph or 258km/h
Rate of climb per minute: 1020ft
Power Plant: one Pratt & Whitney R-985 AN-14B Wasp Jr, radial engine. Producing 450hp.

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The Great Pyramid of egypt

The Great Pyramid of Egypt is built mostly of limestone some weighing as much as 50 tonnes! Most of the blocks weighed 2.5 tonnes. The stones were pulled to Giza on wooden sledges. It’s though that over 4000 skilled masons worked on the pyramid and possibly 100,000 farmers joined them during the inundation period. (Annual flooding) The workers were paid with food and drink rations. Approximately 100,000 bundles of onions and 200,000 loaves of bread were supplied daily to feed the workers three times a day. The limestone was brought from the quarries at Tura. The limestone was ferried over across the Nile River from the East Bank. The Granite was shipped from quarries at Aswan, some 800 kilometers away. The Pyramid has an angle just short of 52 degrees. Many people think the stones were just simply slid up on ramps and then flipped up in place. Some people think the stones were lifted into place by immense machines, personally I think it was lifted and pushed into place, or for the taller parts, simply were slid up a ramp then lifted or flipped them into place .
The number of stones to build the great pyramid is 603,728!

Posted by 22271 on 5/11/06; 2:32:05 PM from the Synclair dept.

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Keno's adventure

   Keno’s adventure on the Queen Fury

Keno was a lonely Ice dragon. Keno was from the frozen city of Fletz. He was 3 years old. His parents died from a hunting raptor and he was lonely. So he decided to go to a giant city named Sharp Claw. He got there by flying. He was looking for an owner because he was just a young dragon.So he asked all of the Dinosaurs in sharpclaw but they ignored him.

So he decided that he would go on their famous boat. The Queen Fury. There were hundreds of Dinosaurs boarding it. When he got on he decided to explore. While he was exploring he found a green Dragoon named Albert. Keno asked “ can you take care of me?” “Sure” said the green Dragoon.

Then they went in the next room and found a blue turtle. It was a squirturtle ! They were rare turtles and they found one! They asked it to go with them and it responded with “SQUIIRRTTUUURRTTLLE” “Ahhhhhh!” yelled Keno. But Albert just stood there because he had seen scarier stuff like swords with eyes. And suddenly Keno went flying across the room from a sudden smash! They had just crashed into a ship that came from nowhere!

And it had blue flames surrounding it! It was a ghost ship! Skeleton pirates came pouring out and then “WING BLASTER!”And a green dragon came out of Albert’s back! And killed the pirates. Then they went home and then after that day Keno was more adventurous but didn’t go on any boats.

                                       THE END

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Tiny's crunchy adventure

   Tiny’s crunchy adventure

There was once a tiger named Tiny. He was on a search for a bandicoot named Crash. Crash’s family had killed his parents in war when he was a kitten. Now he was a teen.

He was getting ready to leave inferno island. And he decided to go to cortex mansion for one last time and then when he got there he saw crash and his gang. He ran after crash from the shadows but a giant bandicoot named crunch stopped him. And then N.gin and dingodile came and knocked him down and then tiny ate crunch! And then crash yelled “WHOA!“ and then tiny ran away.

“Thanks guys.“ Tiny said.“no problem“ they said. And with that they flew away on their stink mobiles. Now tiny was going to his temple wondering why crash was there. But he was full from eating crunch. He at least knew why he was called crunch! Because he was crunchy!

As soon as he got to tiny temple he was greeted by a small bear named polar. “What are you doing here?” asked Tiny. It responded with “agh!” and then ran away. He continued into the temple to see master oda booga. And instead of oda booga he saw crash and then they fought and crash spun out tiny and then they threw T.N.T at each other and they both died. And the secret was that they were stepbrothers and they killed each other and that is a lesson to them.

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Jar The Object

He was a jar and Jar was his name. Jar was the same size as a human teenager 170 cm. he was skinny, and rainbow colored, and he had magic powers. He glided when he moved because he had no feet. He was twelve years old and lived on his own on Earth. One day he went to the mall to go shopping.
The shape shifters, aliens, evil dogs, and crazy weather had taken over the mall, and there were a whole lot of them. The evil dogs were wrecking the clothes by playing tug a war. The aliens were shooting lots of people with their new weapons. The shape shifters were turning into teenage girls and teenage boys and the crazy weather was breaking the windows to get in.
Jar was mad at them because they were wrecking his favorite mall. The first thing he saw were the dogs wrecking the clothes, then he noticed the aliens shooting people, than he saw the shape shifters turning quickly into seniors. He tried nicely asking them to leave but they did not listen to him. He got angry at them and threatened them with his magic powers. The shape shifters, evil dogs, aliens, and the crazy weather got scared of him when he use his magic powers. So they left Earth so they wouldn’t get shouted at again.
He went home to call his mom and tell her he had a rough day.

The End
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