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Katie Day

Picturing the Story: Narrative Arts and the Stories They Tell - 0 views

  • Picturing the Story uses works of art as a springboard for an interdisciplinary approach to culture, environment, language, and learning. It was developed for classroom use, using selected narrative works of world art from the permanent collection of the Memorial Art Gallery.
Katie Day

Invisible Children - 0 views

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    << By inspiring youth culture to value creativity, idealism and sacrifice, the movement fuels the most effective, adaptable and innovative programs in the world. Motivated by the unseen war in Northern Uganda, Invisible Children was created by three young filmmakers with a singular mission: To use the power of stories to change lives around the world. >>
Woo Hyun C

Dwarf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • The typical fantasy Dwarf is, like the original Dwarves, short in stature, long-bearded and skilled at mining and metallurgy. They are often depicted as having a low affinity for most magical abilities and/or a resistance to magic.
  • The typical fantasy Dwarf is, like the original Dwarves, short in stature, long-bearded and skilled at mining and metallurgy. They are often depicted as having a low affinity for most magical abilities and/or a resistance to magic
  • The typical fantasy Dwarf is, like the original Dwarves, short in stature, long-bearded and skilled at mining and metallurgy. They are often depicted as having a low affinity for most magical abilities and/or a resistance to magic.
    • Woo Hyun C
       
      The decription of a dwarf
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  • Tolkien's dwarves
  • J. R. R. Tolkien used Dwarves in his fantasy novel The Hobbit, the subsequent The Lord of the Rings
  • "dwarfs" has been replaced by "Dwarves"
  • Dwarves in Tolkien are long-lived, living nearly four times the age of man (about 250 years), but are not prolific breeders, having children rarely and spaced far apart, and having few women among them. Dwarvish children are cherished by their parents, and are defended at all costs from their traditional enemies, such as Orcs. A longstanding enmity between normal Dwarves and Elves is also a staple of the racial conception.
  • A long standing source of interest (and humour) comes from the allusion of Tolkien to female Dwarves having beards, which was borrowed by other writers
    • Woo Hyun C
       
      female dwarfs has beards for Tolkien's story.
  • The typical fantasy Dwarf is, like the original Dwarves, short in stature, long-bearded and skilled at mining and metallurgy. They are often depicted as having a low affinity for most magical abilities and/or a resistance to magic.
  • Tolkien's dwarves
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    The typical fantasy Dwarf is, like the original Dwarves, short in stature, long-bearded and skilled at mining and metallurgy. They are often depicted as having a low affinity for most magical abilities and/or a resistance to magic.
Avinash X

Troll (Middle-earth) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    funny info
Zina S

Elf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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  • In Denmark and Sweden, the elves appear as beings distinct from the vetter, even though the border between them is diffuse.
  • The elves were originally thought of as a race of divine or semi-divine beings (wights, vættir) endowed with magical powers, which they use both for the benefit and the injury of mankind. In pre-Christian mythology, they appear to have been divided into light elves and dark elves, difficult to delineate from the Æsir (gods) on one hand and the dvergar (dwarves) on the other.
  • The name elf is from Old English ælf
Zoe P

Wizards and Wizardry - 0 views

  • Wizards are always in pursuit of knowledge. The grimoire or book of magical knowledge contains all the facts a wizard needs to know. It included spells, to charms, divinations, potions.
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      I dont think that Wizards are real and the so caled Wizards grimmore book.
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    Wizards
Morgan V

Chinese dragon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • The dragon is sometimes used in the West as a national emblem of China. However, this usage within both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan as the symbol of nation is not common. Instead, it is generally used as the symbol of culture.The dragon is also a symbol of power, strength, and good luck. Historically, the dragon was the symbol of the Emperor of China. In the Zhou Dynasty, the 5-clawed dragon was assigned to the Son of Heaven, the 4-clawed dragon to the Zhuhou (seigneur), and the 3-clawed dragon to the Daifu. In the Qing Dynasty, the 5-clawed dragon was assigned to represent the Emperor while the 4-clawed and 3-clawed dragons were assigned to the commoners. The dragon in the Qing Dynasty appeared on national flags.[1]
Morgan V

European dragon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • In European folklore, a dragon is a serpentine legendary creature. The Latin word draco, as in constellation Draco, comes directly from Greek δράκων, (drákōn, gazer). The word for dragon in Germanic mythology and its descendants is worm (Old English: wyrm, Old High German: wurm, Old Norse: ormr), meaning snake or serpent. In Old English wyrm means "serpent", draca means "dragon".
  • In Western folklore, dragons are usually portrayed as evil, with the exceptions mainly appearing in modern fiction. In the modern period the dragon is typically depicted as a huge fire-breathing, scaly and horned dinosaur-like creature, with leathery wings, with four legs and a long muscular tail. It is sometimes shown with feathered wings, crests, fiery manes, ivory spikes running down its spine and various exotic colorations. Iconically it has at last combined the Chinese dragon with the western one.
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    In European folklore, a dragon is a serpentine legendary creature. The Latin word draco, as in constellation Draco, comes directly from Greek δράκων, (drákōn, gazer). The word for dragon in Germanic mythology and its descendants is worm (Old English: wyrm, Old High German: wurm, Old Norse: ormr), meaning snake or serpent. In Old English wyrm means "serpent", draca means "dragon".
Thomas C

Goblin - Monstropedia - the largest encyclopedia about monsters - 0 views

  • Goblin is a general term that can apply either to the ugliest members of the fae, or to certain sub-races. Those fae numbered among the goblin subraces, include the Scottish Trows, English Spriggans, Welsh Knockers, Cornish Knockers, German Kobolds and Wichtlein, the Irish Phooka and even Shakespeare's infamous Puck .
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    me
Elizabeth B

Dragon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • The word dragon derives from Greek δρακω, via Latin draco. It is attested in Middle English from the 13th century, in the context of medieval bestiaries and legends.
Avinash X

Trolls - 0 views

  • Trolls are green skinned, musculare creatures that live in underground tunnels. They came to this world together with the elves ancestors' the High Ones. So far they've shown to be unpredictable, cruel creatures. Perhaps there are better trolls somewhere, but the survivors of the Tall Tree Holt severly doubt that.
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    Trolls
Thomas C

Goblins - 0 views

  • They grow up to 30 cm and are covered with a thick coat of black/grey hair. The Goblin is usually found wearing very dark colored cloths and a tall cap similar to that of the Gnome. They can appear as animals.
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    Here is all monstrous!
Thomas C

Goblin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • A goblin is a legendary evil or mischievous creature described as a grotesquely disfigured or gnome-like phantom that may range in height from that of a dwarf to that of a human.
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      Mischevious! Remember that
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    Calling all dwarf hunters! come here for information
Katie Day

Infographic: Seeking Refuge -- Dec 2009 - Wall Street Journal - 0 views

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    Shows the largest groups of global refugees, according to the UN
Katie Day

Teacher notes to GAME: Wake Up The Box - 0 views

  • Yes, it seems that narcoleptic Mr. Box has gotten himself in a bit of a conundrum. Or rather, twenty conundrums. Your goal is to wake him up ‒ push him, pull him, tip him over... whatever gets the job done. Problem is, all you have to work with are these blocks of wood, and what's worse, you can't even place them where you want! They may only be attached to existing wood structures, and once you stick them on, they stay stuck. Thus, Eugene Karataev's (Splitter) latest game Wake Up The Box provides a unique challenge among physics puzzlers, with balance and centers of gravity taking center stage. Unlike most games, you can't simply increase the momentum in the system by dropping blocks from a higher height, so you'll need to find creative ways to get things moving by utilizing leverage and upsetting the balance of objects in the level.
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    Walkthrough Guide, Review, Discussion, Hints and Tips at Jay is Games
Katie Day

InventorsToolbox: The Elements of Machines - 0 views

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    from the Museum of Science
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