Soldiers and Sled Dogs - A History of Military Dog Mushing
Dean's small, fascinating book provides handy reference on the military use of dogsleds. The first soldier to use them was Bill Mitchell, while laying a telegraph line across Alaska. The French used them in the Vosges Mountains and the Italians in the Alps during World War I to supply outposts that couldn't be reached by mules. In World War II, the leading user was the U.S, which, despite many experiments with sleds and breeds of dog, ended up using them mostly for search and rescue in the Arctic. The Germans' SS mountain division used Finnish-trained dogs on the Russian front.
Her father is Arthur Dent, her mother, unexpectedly to all concerned is Trillian, her godless godfather is Ford Perfect. Through a complicated series of misunderstandings at the naming ceremony she is named at random, or "Random" for short. When Random sets out across the galaxy to find out the truth about her vanished mother, her journey takes her to an utterly insignificant and little blue-green planet whose only entry in the guide reads, "Mostly harmless...."
The goal of this set of lectures is to combine two seemingly unrelated topics: (1) The study of Boolean functions, a field particularly active in computer science; (2) Some models in statistical physics, mostly percolation.
Grade 2-5–These 22 projects range from clever and cute (finger puppets made from balloons) to mundane and forgettable (Soda Bottle Mouse). The author dives right in with a promising Earth-Friendly Crafting Box but after three pages of instructions most kids will have lost interest. The remaining crafts are mostly two pages in length and include an illustrated supplies list and mostly clear directions. Materials include sequins, magnetic tape, pom-poms, and beads in addition to common household objects. For a more extensive collection of projects that seriously espouse the three R's (reduce, reuse, recycle)
For years there has been insufficient provision of specific material for practice with sentences. We speak mostly in sentences, not in individual words or in unrelated verb-parts or in tricky linguistic tests. Our speech and writing are creative-the putting-together of words into sentences. And our linguistic comprehension is mostly of the meanings of sentences rather than individual words. This book aims at filling a gap. It aims at giving plenty of practice in understanding, constructing, and using sentences, and in selecting sentences for certain circumstances.
