El ferrocarril transcontinental (The Transcontinental Railroad)

People today refer to the Midwestern and prairie states as flyover country. During the Civil War, crossing those areas was the biggest obstacle in uniting the East and West Coasts of our divided nation. An act of Congress in 1862 authorized the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific railroad companies to build a railroad that would link the coasts. Seven years later, on May 10, 1869, an overwhelmingly immigrant labor force completed the task when a rail line was join in Promontory, Utah. The states had become united at last.

Which things move slowly? Read this book to find out about how and why things move slowly. Books in this series introduce children to simple forces. Each book uses simple, repetitive text to teach children basic vocabulary, and includes stunning photographs that show how different forces are at work in the world around us. In Slow, children learn about things that commonly move slowly, how pushes and pulls can make something move slowly, and how some things are slower than others.

Una series de bosquejos y sermones versiculo por versiculo o pasaje por pasaje con comentarios y pensamientos que aplican las Escrituras a la predicación y enseñanza de acuerdo con las necesidades del oyente.

Arsenio Colinas es un ladrón de guante blanco que actúa sin emplear la violencia. Su última víctima es la condesa de Tellington, una anciana mujer muy rica poco merecedora de su fortuna, a quien acaba de robarle sus joyas más valiosas conocidas como “los instantes perfectos”. Pero la inteligente nieta de la condesa, Cecilia, se cruzará inesperadamente en el camino de nuestro ladrón. Juntos descubrirán que las joyas robadas tienen un valor personal incalculable.

Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. (Later Marie won another Nobel award for chemistry in 1911.) She died in Savoy, France, on July 4, 1934, a victim of many years of exposure to toxic radiation.