Month: April 2019

  GALILEO ACADEMY Weekly Bulletin APRIL 15-18, 2019   WORD OF THE WEEK:  EARTH DAY APRIL 22, 2019 WHAT IS EARTH DAY? Ever wondered how Earth Day started? This observance arose from an interest in gathering national support for environmental issues. In 1970, San Francisco activist John McConnell and Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson separately asked Americans to join in a

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GALILEO ACADEMY Weekly Bulletin APRIL 15-18, 2019   WORD OF THE WEEK:  THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2019– THE 113th ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1906 EARTHQUAKE, MAGNITUDE 7.9. THIS “EVENT TURNED SAN FRANCISCO STREETS INTO WAVES, FLATTENING MUCH OF THE SKY LINE AND IGNITING FIRES THAT RAGED FOR ALMOST FOUR DAYS.  THE QUAKE RUPTURED 296 MILES OF FAULT LINE — FROM CAPE MENDOCINO

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GALILEO ACADEMY Weekly Bulletin APRIL 8-12, 2019   WORD OF THE WEEK:  NATIONAL FORMER POW RECOGNITION DAY APRIL 9: National Former POW Recognition Day. April 9th is designated by Congress as the Presidentially proclaimed observance of National Former POW Recognition Day. On April 9, 1942 United States forces surrendered on the Bataan Peninsula, beginning the Bataan Death March. On this

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