Friday the 13'th

On Friday I am going to a lock-in with Ryan, and I noticed it was on Friday the 13. Why is it unlucky?

This is what I found out. Friday the 13 is a day donned to be unlucky. The fear of this day is Paraskevidekatriaphobics.The fear of the number 13 is called triskaidekaphobia.One theory says that Friday was unlucky and so was 13 thus Friday the 13 is ultra unlucky.

I found that several things have happened on Friday the 13. In 1307 King Richard arrested the Knights of Templar on Friday 13. In 1733 22 ships left Cuba on Friday the 13th. They met a hurricane and turned back. Only 4 ships survived. In 1972 there was a plane crash in the Andes with a rugby team on it. It crashed on Friday the 13th. Later a movie was made out of this. In 2004, a hurricane named Charlie hit Florida on Friday the 13.

Some things are released on Friday the 13 for effect. Resident Evil 5 was released on Friday March 13, 2009. And four of the jason movies were released on this date. But it is safer to drive on Friday the 13 because less people go out on the roads, kinda hypocritical, but whatever. Click for more info.

Another School Report

The West Virginia History Museum

The WV State Museum is a museum of WV history in Charleston, WV. It is set up so the entire museum is a giant walk through time. It also has oral explanations of the exhibits via speakers in the ceiling. The line starts at 300,000,000 B.C., and then goes through various time periods up to current times. Each exhibit explains how the time period affected West Virginia as a state.

In the beginning, there was a room that was prehistoric and had a lot of fossils of ferns and other plants. These fossils eventually decomposed and became coal. West Virginia is rich in coal deposits. In that same room there is a 4000 pound block of coal that was used as a desk in an AEP office.

In a room for the Civil War there is an actual Civil War Stars and Bars Confederate flag, and a Civil War cannon. This room had cool sound effects that sound like a battle from the Civil War. West Virginia during this time became a state when Virginia succeeded from the Union.

There is a room in the middle of the walk that has an old fashioned switchboard from the 1930’s 50’s. Across from that is an old movie theater that for some odd reason had leopard print seats.

Near the end there is an exhibit of all the military uniforms from The Spanish American War until The War on Terror. This was also interesting because in the wall they had mini TVs that showed first hand accounts of West Virginians who had fought in the wars.

At the end there was a room that had a box of 27,000 marbles all made in WV. Slightly past that room, there was a slide show of photos of West Virginia that has some cheesy John Denver playing in the background. WV must like cheesy music, oh well.

An interesting point is that the floor shows the main mode of transport in the era. For example, at 300 million B.C. the floor was covered in dinosaur tracks, and as time progressed there were human tracks, horse tracks, cobble stones, railroad track, brick, cement, and asphalt.

This museum is a very interesting museum that showed the history of WV very well. It was as informative as it was interesting. The cool displays matched with hard fact. A history museum that rocks!

Best Gaming Console

I have been wondering what the opinion of my readers is. Here is the question. What is the best gaming console? Are you hard core gamer in HD? Let me guess, the PS3. Sorta casual, but like your graphics? You want the 360. Cheapo gamer? The PS2 right? New gamer, casual, don't like a lot of buttons, and just want to have fun? Let me introduce, the Wii. Like to game on the go? Like your graphics, but don't have cash for a $300 PS3? You will like the PSP. Just want to have fun, anytime anywhere? Welcome to DSi land. Or are you old school with the games of the ancients, the NES, and SNES. Or are you in the middle with N64? Or do you like fallen Dynasties with Sega. Or are you prehistoric and like Atari? Whatever you like just answer on the poll to your right.

Nimrod's Plan

This is a project of mine for school.

Nimrod: His Relations to Nineveh.

After the great flood, God commanded Noah and his sons to go forth and populate the lands. Nimrod was a great-grandson of Noah, the grandson of Ham, the son of Cush. He was a great hunter before the Lord and a great warrior.

Nimrod thought the people could have great strength if they stayed together. He saw that if the people obeyed God and spread out, they would lose strength. So, Nimrod started a campaign to found cities that he would run. He went in the area of Mesopotamia built many cities. The most notable of these were Nineveh and Babylon. Later these cities would fight to be the most powerful in the Euphrates and Tigris river area.

Nimrod was angry at God for destroying the Earth. He didn’t want the people to follow God. He became dictator like to control the people. He pledged to build a tower in Babylon that would be so high if God flooded the world, the waters would not reach it.

The people of Babylon decided they should build the tower to make a name for themselves. They started building what we now call the tower of Babel. God confused their languages so the people could not build the tower and they would spread out. This ended Nimrod’s plan to keep the people together.

Though the people did spread out, the population skyrocketed and the cities continued to grow. Nineveh and Babylon became powerful rivals in the area. They had many battles. Eventually Nineveh was destroyed. A nearby river flooded so badly that it eroded walls of Nineveh, and made the walls collapse. With their defenses weakened, Nineveh was invaded and destroyed by its enemies.

It is ironic that Nineveh was destroyed by flood. Nimrod hated God because of flood, yet God used flooding to destroy the city that Nimrod built. This shows that Nineveh was evil all the way and never a good city.

God can be harsh, yet he is very kind. Nimrod got caught up in the old man, or adam. He wanted to make the people powerful. He wanted to do things his own way, not the way that God had commanded. He did not see the big picture of how God had created billions of square miles for the taking. God also saw that the world’s population would go up to astronomical amounts. So God planed for this. God knew Nimrod’s plan before it happened, and planned to confuse the people’s languages. This shows that God is all powerful and he loves his people.