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FUNNY LOOK-ALIKES!

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COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES

Comparatives and Superlatives by Dylan, Lucy and Mia

This is the slideshow that Dylan, Mia, and Lucy did in class last Tuesday! It's great, thank you so much! 

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THE MOST AMAZING BUILDINGS IN THE WORLD

Though it looks like some sort of painting by a drunk painter. But this is a real house located in Rezydent Shopping Center in Sopot, Poland. It is claimed to be the most photographed building in Poland. It is spread to an area of 4,000 square meters. Designed by Architect: Szotynscy Zaleski

1.The Crooked House

2. Forest Spiral - Hundertwasser Building

Architect: Heinz M. Springmann
This is a residential building complex located in Darmstadt, Germany. The building has a unique façade which doesn’t follow a regular grid pattern and the windows appear as if they are dancing out of line and appear out of order.  It was designed by Viennese artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser and finally planned and implemented by architect Heinz M. Springmann. It contains 105 apartments, an inner courtyard, a small artificial lake and also a playground for children. The building has 12 floors.

3. The Torre Galatea Figueras (Spain)

The first things you notice are the giant egg sculptures along the roofline. Then it hits you that the Salvador Dali Theater Museum in Figueras, Spain, is no ordinary building. The museum’s tower, Torre Galatea, was named for the surrealist artist’s deceased wife, and Dali himself lived there until his death in 1989. Interestingly, the museum sits next to the parish church where Dali was baptized in 1904; he is buried in an unmarked crypt in the museum’s main exhibition hall.

4. The Basket Building (Ohio, United States)

This may look like a picnic basket kept in the park. But this actually is a 7-story building which is Longaberger's Home Office located in Newark, Ohio. This monument is in-fact world’s largest basket. Its 192 ft. long by 126 ft. wide at the bottom, spreads to 208-ft. long by 142-ft. wide at the roofline.

5. Kansas City Public Library (Missouri, United States)

This installation is permanent, on a much larger scale, and is designed to conceal the library’s car park. Here the public were asked to nominate books that they felt represented Kansas City. The library was founded in 1873 A.D, and is the oldest and the third largest public library in Kansas City area.

6. Ferdinand Cheval Palace a.k.a Ideal Palace (France)

Cheval began the building in April 1879. He claimed that he had tripped on a stone and was inspired by its shape. He returned to the same spot the next day and started collecting stones.

For the next 33 years, during his daily mail route, Cheval carried stones from his delivery rounds and at home used them to build his Palais idéal, the Ideal Palace. First he carried the stones in his pockets, then a basket and eventually a wheelbarrow. He often worked at night, by the light of an oil lamp.

7. Wonderworks (Pigeon Forge, TN, United States)
  
WonderWorks in Pigeon Forge, TN will intrigue, excite and inspire you from the moment you see it! This attraction was built as "An Amusement Park for the Mind". It is perhaps the most educational family attraction in town.
Your imagination will start working overtime as soon as you lay eyes on it. You'll begin to wonder why the three-story, 82-foot-tall building is turned upside down.

8. Habitat 67 (Montreal, Canada)

Architect: Moshe Safdie

• Habitat 67 is a one-of-a-kind housing complex located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• The building was realized as the main pavilion and thematic emblem for the International World Exposition and its theme, Man and His World, held in Montreal in 1967.
• It is built as a part of Expo-67.
• It was designed to integrate the variety and diversity of scattered private homes with the economics and density of a modern apartment building.
• The project was designed to create affordable housing with close but private quarters, each equipped with a garden.
• The building was believed to illustrate the new lifestyle people would live in increasingly crowded cities around the world.

9. Cubic Houses (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

Architect: Piet Blom

This is a housing designed on top of a pedestrian bridge. The main idea behind this is to create a forest of cubes (abstract trees) as each cube represents an abstract tree.
The cubes are tilted and sit on hexagon-shaped pole structures. The cubes contain the living areas, which are split into three levels. The triangle-shaped lower level contains the living area.

10. Hang Nga Guesthouse (Crazy House), Vietnam

• This fantastical place is like a journey into the world of Alice and Wonderland. Designed by a woman artist who hangs around the grounds, it is one of wonder.
• The house is owned by the daughter of the ex-president of Vietnam, who studied architecture in Moscow.
• It does not comply with any convention about house building, has unexpected twists and turns, roofs and rooms. It looks like a fairy tale castle, it has enormous “animals” like a giraffe and a spider, no window is rectangular or round, and it can be visited like a museum.

11. Chapel in the Rock (Arizona, United States)

This beautiful Roman Catholic church is literally built into the rock. The views from outside are unbelievable but the serenity inside is awesome.

12. Dancing Building (Prague, Czech Republic)

Designed by: Architect Vlado Milunić in co-operation with Canadian architect Frank Gehry on a vacant riverfront plot.

• The building was designed in 1992 and completed in 1996.
• A modern, glass building surrounded by historic architecture.
• The top floor of Dancing House is home to one of the city's leading restaurants, Celeste Restaurant.
• Diners can enjoy delightful cuisine and magnificent views over the river and up to Prague Castle.

13. Calakmul Building Or La Lavadora (The Washing Machine), Mexico

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ST. PATRICK'S DAY: BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW

Click on this link to watch a very intersting video on St. Patrick's day! Bet you didn't know some of these facts!
St. Patrick's Day

ST. PATRICK'S DAY

Saint Patrick's Day or the Feast of Saint Patrick is a cultural and religious holiday celebrated annually on 17 March, the death date of the most commonly-recognised patron saint of Ireland, Saint Patrick (c. AD 385–461).

Saint Patrick's Day was made an official Christian feast day in the early seventeenth century. The day commemorates Saint Patrick and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland as well as celebrates the heritage and culure of the Irish in general.Celebrations generally involve public parades and festivals,céilithe  and the wearing of green attire or shamrocks^. Christians also attend church services and the lenten restrictions on eating and drinking alcohol are lifted for the day, which has encouraged and propagated the holiday's tradition of alcohol consumption.

Saint Patrick's Day is a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland^. It is also widely celebrated by the Irish diaspora around the world; especially in Britain, Canada, the United States, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand. 

In fact, these are the top 10 St. Patrick's celebrations around the world. 

From the National Geographic book Four Seasons of Travel

1. New York City, New York

   www.nycstpatricksparade.org/The granddaddy of all St. Patrick’s Day parades (the first was staged in 1762 by homesick Irishmen serving in the British Army) is also the world’s largest, attracting more than two million spectators annually. Led by a military unit, the foot-powered procession (no cars or floats allowed) begins at 44th Street and marches on up Fifth Avenue for nearly six hours.

2. Boston, Massachusetts

   www.southbostonparade.orgIn the nation’s most Irish state (nearly a quarter of Massachusetts’ residents claim Irish ancestry), South Boston is St. Patrick’s Day central. Since 1901, “Southie” has hosted the city’s colossal parade (held on the Sunday closest to March 17) as thousands of marchers and revelers celebrate all things Emerald. Listen for the mournful wail of bagpipes calling marchers to the Broadway T station starting point.

3. Chicago, Illinois

   www.chicagostpatsparade.comParade day (always a Saturday) begins with a wee bit of Irish magic (and 40 lb/18 kg of EPA-approved dye) to color the downtown Chicago River the perfect kelly green. The St. Patrick’s procession begins at noon, with bagpipers, horses, and high-stepping colleens leading the way north on Columbus Drive through Grant Park.

4. Savannah, Georgia

   www.savannahsaintpatricksday.comGeorgia’s first city has been hosting a St. Patrick’s Day parade since 1813. It’s a three-hour rolling street party held on March 17 (a day earlier if the 17th falls on a Sunday). Book several months in advance to score a Historic District hotel room facing the parade route.
   

5. Montserrat, West Indies

   www.visitmontserrat.com/St_Patricks_FestivalThe first Irish on this “Emerald Isle of the Caribbean” were former indentured servants fleeing religious persecution from neighboring islands in the 1600s. Shamrock passport stamps pay tribute to Montserrat’s Hibernian roots, celebrated to a calypso beat during a weeklong St. Patrick’s Festival. The Afro-Irish event also commemorates an attempted slave revolt on March 17, 1768.

6. Montreal, Quebec, Canada

   www.montrealirishparade.comNeither rain nor snow has ever canceled the Montreal St. Patrick’s Parade. Run consecutively since 1824, the three-hour cavalcade of floats, bands, and costumed characters is traditionally held on the Sunday closest to March 17. Post-parade, the party continues at McKibbin’s, Hurley’s, the Sir Winston Churchill Complex, and other downtown pubs.

7. Dublin, Ireland

   www.stpatricksfestival.ieDublin’s St. Patrick’s Festival is a four-day celebration of Irish culture and craic (good fun). The signature March 17 parade kicks off at noon from Parnell Square, continuing past Trinity College to the end point near St. Patrick’s Cathedral. A half million revelers line the 1.6-mile (2.7-kilometer) route, so for a view other than the back of someone’s head, splurge for reserved grandstand seating.

8. Birmingham, England

   stpatricksbirmingham.comOn the Sunday closest to St. Patrick’s Day, the United Kingdom’s largest St. Patrick’s parade hums and high-steps through Digbeth, Birmingham’s postindustrial Irish Quarter. Packed pubs line the route and the dress code trends emerald green, but the passing floats, dancers, and drum corps increasingly reflect the city’s cultural diversity.

9. Cabo Roig, Spain

   www.spain-holiday.com/Cabo-RoigIrish holidaymaker hot spot Cabo Roig hosts Spain’s biggest St. Patrick’s Day parade. Spend the morning at one of the town’s white-sand Mediterranean beaches, and then snag a café table along the strip to cheer on the passing marching bands, motorbikes, and Irish dignitaries. A Guinness-fueled fiesta continues under the stars with karaoke, contests, fireworks, flamenco dancers, and more.

10. Auckland, New Zealand

    www.stpatrick.co.nzNew Zealand’s largest city hosts the world’s first St. Patrick’s Day party each year. Since Ireland-to-Auckland emigration began in the 1840s and continues today, there’s palpable pride in the city’s Irish heritage. Celebrations include a parade, a fleadh (dance and music fest), and lighting the 1,076-foot (328-meter) Sky Tower green.

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