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Fungi

Fungi, from the mushrooms you eat to yeast on your bread. Fungi can be really deadly but they are also really helpful. Let's understand about fungi. Fungi have mycelium which is in charge of extracellular digestion. Each strand of mycelium could be called hyphae. Hyphae could reproduce sexually which I will be telling about later. Fungi could cause diseases such as athlete's foot and be poisonus. Fungi can be deadly if you inhale their spores or if you eat a poisonus species of fungi. Fungi can reproduce both sexually and asexually, either way makes spores. Fungi could reproduce asexally using a process called budding. Parts of hyphae could grow into new fungi. Sexual reproduction in fungi is differnt in other organisms. If  hyphae are near each other the could reproduce sexually. Fungi are decomposer which means they eat deceased organisms. They release toxins that break down the food, so that the nutrients will be released. This is really helpful as without fungi ther

City of Nineveh

Located at the Ancient Assyrian city, capital of the Neo - Assyrian Empire, is a city called Nineveh. Nineveh is a big city one of the few having prehistoric items such as statues and paintings.  Nineveh home to the Assyrians famous for there wiked acts, cruel torture and their King (King  Sennacherib). These people have a like of myths and other olktale creatures that dosen't exist, they also have a belief on gods and would like worshippng statues. What makes these people hateful of anger and vengence is of there cruel methods of punishing others byt torture. The Assyrians torture is none like other they especially love flaying peoples skin alive. No wonder most of there enemies Babylonians, Medes and Sythians have a gruge and hatred for them. Later on they were conquered by the Babylonians as the walls collapsed and dissolved from thier castle wall.

Classification of Stars

There are billions and billions of stars in our universe, we can't even count them. Classifying stars is a really helpful when identifying stars. Spectral Letters Spectral letters identify the tempreature of stars. M being the coolest stars and O being the hottest stars. Our sun's tempreatue is 10,000 degrees farenheit. Which means our star is a type G star. Below is a table for the spectral letters. Absolute and Apparent Magnitude Another way to classify stars is through it's brightness. Absolute magnitude is the brightness of a star the lower the number the brighter the star is. Although the sun might look very bright it is only because we're so close to it. The sun's magnitude is 5. Apparent magnitude on the other hand is how bright it is in the sky. H-R Diagram The Hertzsprung-Russel Diagram or H-R diagram is a graph of both the spectral letters and absolute magnitude. below is an H-R Diagram Source:Wikipedia

Federalism vs Unitary

Federalism vs Unitary Federations and unitary states are different types of states. What's the difference? Federations Federations have federalism which is obvious enough. So what happens in federalism. It is when the central nor the regional governments are supreme. The central government has control of some laws and the regional government is in control some other laws. One example of a federalism state is America. Unitary  Unitary states are much different from federations. Instead of the regional and the central government having the same power the central government is supreme. The central government does most of the laws while the regional governments only does few laws.

Robin Hood

Robin hood is remembered as that one archer who steals from the rich to give to the poor. Although people think he is a fictional character there is proof that he really exists. In england a tombstone says: Here underneath this little stone Lies Robert, Earl of Huntingdon Ne'er archer was as he so good And people call him Robin Hood Such outlaws as he and his men Will england never see again.                        1247 There are lots of information we get from this tombstone. For example it states that his real name isis Robert and was nicknamed Robin Hood. It also says he was a good archer and was an outlaw. Although stories suggest him stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, we don't have proof if he really does.

Electromagnetism

Electricity could create magnetism, this is called electromagnetism. Electromagnets can be created by wrapping a wire around an iron nail and connecting it to a battery. If you do decide to do this you might want to wear gloves because the battery could get very hot. Electromagnets function stick to metal just like normal magnets. You could also change how strong an electro magnet attracts by using more voltage.  You could also do the opposite and generate electricity through magnets, this is called electromagnetic induction.  Electro magnets are very useful in our daily lives. Electromagnets are used in a lot of electrical devices. Electric motors and generators both use electromagnets to do convert energy. Another example is a school bell. When electricity goes to the school bell the thing that hits the bell is attracted by an electromagnet to hit the bell.

Buoyancy

Buoyancy is the tendency for something to float. When something is on water it displaces an amount of water. Have you ever tried throwing a rock in water. If you did you most definitely know that it's will sink. However if you try putting a paper boat on water it floats. How come? Well, if you check how much the water displaced weighs and how much the paper boat weighs you would see they're almost equal. Which determines why the paper boat floats. If you weigh a rock though and how much the water displaced weighs, you would see the rock weighs more.