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Soccer Team Rescue:

On Saturday, June 23rd, 12 soccer players and their coach ventured into a cave while at a tournament. A rainstorm flooded their exit route, so they were trapped. On July 2nd, 9 days after they were trapped, divers went in to find the boys. The next day, more divers delivered supplies to the team. On July 9th, expert divers rescued the team.

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School's Out For Summer! :

When the school year is over, how will you spend your summer break? Do you stay home on a "staycation", or travel away from home on vacation? With staycations, you can have fun without actually going anywhere. Sleeping in, reading, and watching TV are all there! On the other hand, vacations offer a chance to go someplace different from home. You can experience new things, but it often costs way more.

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Hurricane Katrina Warning:

Hurrican Katrina was approaching New Orleans. The National Weather Service issued urgent weather bulletins. They explained what kind of damage and distruction that the hurricane would cause. The bulletin gave people a clear understanding of just how dangerous Hurricane Katrina would be. As a result, 90% of those who lived in the hurricane's path evacuated the area.

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Ice Cream Dreams:

Business was good for ice cream vendor, Italo Marchiony, in 1902. He found that people loved the cool treat. He would scoop ice cream into a glass bowl for his customers. They were supposed to give the bowls back, but often forgot or the bowls broke. Marchiony decided it would be better if ice cream came in a dish that could be eaten along with the treat. He experimented and was able to create what we now know as the ice cream cone.

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The Life of a Genius:

Stephen Hawking was born in 1942 in England. As a young child, he enjoyed taking apart clocks and radios to see how they worked. At age 17, he began attending college where he studied chemistry and physics. He then went to postgraduate school at Cambridge. At age 21, Stephen started to stumble and drop things. His speech became slurred. Doctors diagnosed him with ALS, a disease which left him mostly paralized. On March 14th, 2018, Stephen Hawking passed away at the age of 76.

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Soccer Ball Secrets:

Kicking a soccer ball seems simple, but how and where a ball is kicked affects how the ball moves. There are tricks to kicking a ball that can impact its speed and direction. A fast ball is harder for the goalie to stop than a slow one. For this reason, players want the ball they kick to travel quickly. For a fast-moving ball, players kick the ball with the top of their foot rather than with their toes.

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The Corpse Flower:

The corpse flower is one of the rarest, largest, and stinkiest plants in the world. It only grows in wild in the tropical rainforest of Sumatra. It is one of the most challenging plants to grow. The most notable feature of the corpse plant is its fragrance. When in bloom, it gives off the foul odor of rotting flesh.

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Cold Vs. Flu:

When you're sick, how do you know if you have a cold or the flu? They're both highly contagious viruses that infect the respiratory system. They have overlapping symptom, but there are ways to tell the two illnesses apart.

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Meghan Markle Cleans Up a Dish Soap Commercial:

Megan Markle, who married Prince Harry, has been an advocate for gender equality since childhood. When Meghan was 11, she had a problem with a commercial for dish soap. The ad featured the line, "Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans." Meghan was bothered by the word "women" because it implied that women are the only ones who do dishes. She did not think it was fair. Meghan wrote a letter asking them to change the wording. The ad was modified to say "people".

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Science Fiction:

Science fiction is a category of fiction that revolves around science or technology that doesn't currently exist. Common settings include future, outer space, and other world dimentions. It often has time travel, space exploration, alien encounters, and even robot revolts!

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