Author: Lisa Mungovan

Nazca lines are massive drawings in the desert in Peru. The geoglyphs are so huge that you can only properly see the patterns from the air, so many had remained unseen. Now archaeologists have discovered even more geoglyphs. The Paracas and Topara people created the giant pictures on hillsides, more than 2200 years ago!

Horses have lived on Earth at least 50,000,000 years. Humans domesticated them, for transportation, farming, and racing, but there are still wild horses. Horses can run up to 55 miles-per-hour! The tallest horse ever, Sampson, was 7-foot-2-inches tall. Thumbelina, the world’s smallest horse, was only 17 inches tall! Happy Day Of The Horse!

Today is Violin Day, the first instrument that many kids learn to play. If your school has a strings program, be sure to sign up! You can always listen to classical, bluegrass, or Irish music to hear some fantastic violin playing! Listen with a cup of hot chocolate, because it’s also National Cocoa Day!

Last March, students from Central Falls Rhode Island, made a miniboat. They named it Inspiration, added GPS trackers, included information about the schools that helped build it, and launched it into the Atlantic Ocean. 10 months later, the boat was found on a beach in England! British students had a videochat with the ship-builders.

On Sunday, NASA’s Orion spacecraft, completed its Artemis 1 mission. The space capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, to finish its 25-day journey around the Moon. This mission was an unmanned test flight, and the capsule landed undamaged. The Artemis program aims to return humans to the Moon in a few years.

The 2022 Comedy Wildlife Photography Award winners have been chosen. The grand prize winner, is a photo of a lion cub, losing its grip on a tree trunk. Other fun images included a raccoon waving hello, a duckling crossing a bridge of turtles, and leaping wallabies. Enjoy more fun wild animal moments, at comedywildlifephoto.com.

Old-timey phones used to actually ring. On Ding-A-Ling Day, call people you haven’t talked to in years. Your old babysitter would love to hear from you! Set your mobile’s ring-tone, to old phone, so you’ll ding-a-ling when someone calls you. It’s also Ambrosia Day. The sweet salad has coconut, fruit, marshmallows, and whipped cream!

Today is Gingerbread House Day. If you try to make a gingerbread house and it breaks, just make it look like a giant jawbreaker-asteroid smashed into it! It’s also Poinsettia Day, a plant indigenous to Mexico. Its vibrant red and green leaves make it a favorite around Christmas, and it has tiny yellow flowers.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation, is holding its 3rd annual Name a Snowplow contest. Locals have chosen names in the past, like Betty Whiteout, Plowy McPlowface, Snowbi Wan Kenobi, and The Truck Formerly Known As Plow. Similar snowplow-naming contests are popping up all over the world. Does your town have one?

Border collies are high-energy dogs, that enjoy working. Scruff, nicknamed the eco-dog, is a collie that loves to clean up the streets. When he goes for a walk, he collects plastic bottles that litter the ground. So far in 20 22, Scruff has collected more than 1000 bottles, which his humans recycle for him.