Brass celestial globe!!

I choose Brass celestial globe
I looks like a globe with something under it!
It's from Iran (north west)
'The astronomer from Mosul'
The celestial globe is a three-dimensional map of the stars, and has been used since classical times. The stars were thought to sit on the surface of a giant sphere around the Earth, and the constant movement of the stars every night and throughout the year seemed to be caused by this giant sphere slowly turning overhead. Just like a terrestrial globe, the celestial sphere is mapped by a North and South Pole, an Equator, and lines of longitude and latitude.
Celestial globes were produced first by Greek astronomers, and later also in the Islamic world, where the earliest known globes date from the late eleventh century. Islamic astronomers built upon many of the achievements of classical Greek science, further refining concepts and the design of astronomical instruments, such as the celestial globe and the astrolabe. This is why an Islamic globe depicts the classical constellations, such as the Great Bear, Pegasus, Orion and the twelve signs of the zodiac.
At the South Pole of this globe, the craftsman has inscribed his signature: 'Made by the most humble in the supreme God, Muhammad ibn Hilal, the astronomer from Mosul, in the year 674' (AD 1275-76). Mosul is an important city in northern Iraq, famous in the first half of the thirteenth century for its skilled metalworkers. However, this globe may not have been manufactured in Mosul. In 1262, the city was sacked by the Mongols. The invading force was led by Hulagu Il-Khan (died 1265), who had recently founded an important observatory at his new capital of Maragha, in north-western Iran. The Mongols were known to deport skilled citizens from conquered lands, and Hulagu may have decided to send Muhammad ibn Hilal to the new observatory straight away. The globe, constructed some twelve years later, may therefore have been constructed at Maragha.

Weekend again!

I didn't like this weekend so much!
It was really sad!
Alot of people have gone and I miss them so much!!!
I miss Spanish guys! they have been the best thing of this camp!
On saturday we went to Bath and It was absolutely boring!
On Sunday the school was empty,
I came to the computers and I talked with my friends!
See you soon!

Claude Monet

Name: Claude Monet
Date of birth: November 14, 1840
Date of death: December 5, 1926
Background/Biography: Monet was born on November 14, 1840 on the fifth floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the ninth arrondissement of Paris. He was the second son of Claude-Adolphe and Louise-Justine Aubrée Monet, both of them second-generation Parisians. On May 20, 1841, he was baptized into the local church parish, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette as Oscar-Claude. In 1845, his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy. His father wanted him to go into the family grocery store business, but Claude Monet wanted to become an artist. His mother was a singer.
After several difficult months following the death of Camille on 5 September 1879, a grief-stricken Monet (resolving never to be mired in poverty again) began in earnest to create some of his best paintings of the 19th century. During the early 1880s Monet painted several groups of landscapes and seascapes in what he considered to be campaigns to document the French countryside. His extensive campaigns evolved into his series' paintings.
Camille Monet had become ill with tuberculosis in 1876. Pregnant with her second child she gave birth to Michel Monet in March 1878. In 1878 the Monets temporarily moved into the home of Ernest Hoschedé, (1837-1891), a wealthy department store owner and patron of the arts. Both families then shared a house in Vétheuil during the summer. After her husband (Ernest Hoschedé) became bankrupt, and left in 1878 for Belgium, in September 1879, and while Monet continued to live in the house in Vétheuil; Alice Hoschedé helped Monet to raise his two sons, Jean and Michel, by taking them to Paris to live alongside her own six children
Monet died of lung cancer on December 5, 1926 at the age of 86 and is buried in the Giverny church cemetery.[16] Monet had insisted that the occasion be simple; thus about fifty people attended the ceremony
Title of painting: Jean Monet on his Hobby Horse
What is it about? It’s about a child who is riding on a horse of wood with three wheels, the child has a hat and he is wearing clothes of the 1800’s. Behind them we can see some flowers, trees and grass so we think that behind him there is a forest

My Second weekend!!!!!!

This saturday I got up at 8:00 It is 1hour later
I like this so much!!
The thing that I really liked of the weekend was Oxford Street
I spend £65 there! I bought a sunglasess and a t-shirt
The bad thing was that It was too short and we couldn't see all the shops!
We went there on Saturday and It was really cool!
I know that this post is too small but! I have no more ideas!

The Academic Excursion!!!

On Thursday we went to London!!
During the first trip I slept the whole time
and during the second one I tried but I couldn't do it!! So I talked wih my friends
First we did a tour of London and after that we had free time in the Hays Gallery
There I drank a frapuccino in Starbucks coffee and I bough some things for my family
Then we visited the HMS Belfast (a ship) I didn't like it very much because it was a bit boring!
After this I took an ice-cream and we came back at Queenswood!!

Weekend!!!

I liked this weekend so much!
we hadn't have class!!
we went to Cambridge and I had a great time there!!!1
I bought some sweatwear and some milkshake in starbucks cofee!
I liked Cambridge so much!
After I went to the disco, the music was more or less and the place was too big!!and that is bad!
On Sunday I stay in the school and I played table tennis I went to the swiming pool and I chat in the computers!!!
Bye !

The excursion to the Tower of London!!!!

Yesterday we went to the Tower of London! I liked it !!!
the bus was great I could sleep!!!
When we were with the old woman, she was the guide! I didn't like it so much because it was boring but I was with my friend and it was not too bad!
After we went to the Tower, I didn't see to much of it but the things that I saw were good!
I bought somethings to my family in the souvenirs shop and I could see the beefaters, one of them shout at me because I was shouting to my friend!!!
After we wanted to drink something of the Starbucks coffe so we asked to a woman and she told us where it was.
We started walking but we really didn't know where we were!
After that we found the cofee and we bought some drinks then we came back to the Tower of London and we saw our teacher and we went to the school
Bye kisses for SPAIN!!!