Viking Raid

1/31/2013

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Whilst traveling forth from a trading centre in the heart of mine homeland, Great Britain, I gazed upon the sky and let out a cry of horror as the sight of a foul black plume of smoke met my eyes. I broke into a run as I realized that mine fears hadst been recognized. I directed my gait towards the monastery that  laid outside mine homeland. I reached it with little ease, but eventually stoood outside its great wooden doors. In my panic, I abandoned all courtesy and began to hammer upon the doors with all of my strength. Only when some of my terror began to subside, did I realize that something was gravely wrong.

The door, usually thick and strong, was blackened and beginning to splinter under my efforts. The windows hadst no flicker of candlelight glowing from within. And the most heart-wrenchingly discernible was the lack of almost constant prayers, chants, and hymns coming from within. I raced down the treacherous slope to mine village and was met with carcasses and destruction. I sped around the village, calling out for someone, but none answered. 

A cry of anguish and despair echoed around the ruins, and I perked my ears. I ran with all of my strength to the centre of mine hometown, and saw, a group of about a half-score of people working their way out from a collapsed building. I rushed towards them and we began to maneuver the rubble around. With our efforts, we managed to clear the surrounding carnage, and began to wander the city, gathering the dead for burial. As we walking in our solemnity, the poor, disturbed creature that had uttered the first cry began to mutter, "The Northmen... It

 
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Charlemagne

1/24/2013

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Charlemagne was king of the Franks in the 700's. He devoted his time to conquering lands in Europe. His empire soon grew to almost match the size of the Roman Empire in it's height, and eventually included part of the Roman empire that existed in his time. Because of that, he was crowned Emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III.

Charlemagne's empire was doomed to fall, due to weak rulers in the future, but while it existed, it consisted of all of modern France, along with parts of modern Germany, Austria, Spain, and Italy. Furthermore, Charlemagne's people, the Franks, were a Germanic tribe, but eventually became the people modernly known as the French. One of the important rivers for the French, was also important for the Franks. The River Seine provided them with a steady water supply, and more. As I said earlier, soon after Charlemagne's death, less strong rulers caused his empire to crumble both externally, from attack, and internally, from mismanagement.

Charlemagne also sponsored many schools when he was alive, especially in his capitol of Aachen. His schools were most likely run by monks, so Charlemagne indirectly also help
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New Year's Resolution

1/17/2013

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My new year's resolution is to create a Scratch imitation of the program Rosetta Stone. Three of my good friends speak one or more Indian languages, and so I'm going to attempt to understand them. I will find a Bengali translation of the words used in Rosetta Stone and screenshot the images. I will keep the program to myself so I will not be violating any copyrights. The Bengali phrases I get will be put into the program Voki, from which I will record the sound. I will program the Scratch system to recognize the sounds and will make sure to not cut any corners. To break the repetition, I shall now use the word shall.

Another resolution that I am trying to complete is to improve in my music playing. I will practice hard and make sure to add technique whenever possible.
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