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Thornton and Lucie Blackburn
1 minuteNo comments on Thornton and Lucie Blackburn•Thornton and Lucie Blackburn were slaves. Theyescaped to Canada together from Kentucky •They lived to be around 80 years old. We don’t knowEXACTLY when they were born. •On their way to Canada, Thornton and Lucie were •arrested for a LITTLE BIT, but the people didn’t think itwas FAIR, and a crowd helped them both escape.…
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Slide Show
1 minuteThe Great Grey Owl is Manitoba’s bird. It has big eyes. It eats mice. Baby owls weigh about 35 grams.
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Bird Fact
1 minuteKeel-billed Toucans The keel-billed toucan eats fruit in the rain forests where it lives. Often the fruit grows on little twigs that can’t hold the weight of the big bird. So the toucan uses the tip of its long beak to pick the fruit. Then it tosses back its head and gulps it down whole.…
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Blue Jay
1 minuteBlue Jay In the fall, blue jays hide acorns to eat during the winter. A blue jay can carry five acorns at a time. It can hold three inside its throat in a special pouch. At the same time, it carries a fourth acorn in its mouth and a fifth one with the tip of…
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Bird Fact
1 minuteMound nests also help protect chicks and eggs from predation. The Males usually build the nests and the females will wait until the nest has begun to warm before laying. The Source: Page #7 Ornithology #18 Life Cycle: Nests
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Sally Ride
1 minuteSally Ride Sally Ride was born in 1951. When she was 27 she became 1 of the first 6 US women to be trained to be an astronaut. In 1983 she blasted off on the space shuttle Challenger to become America’s first woman in space. After she retired from MASA she became a proferssor and…
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Winnie The Pooh
2 minutesWinnie the PoohIn 1887 a man named Harry Coleburn was born in England. He grewup and loved animals so much that he wanted to become a vet so when he turned 18 he moved to Canada to go to vet school When he graduated he moved to Winnipeg. Then in 1914 World War One started…
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Wether Slide Show
1 minuteHere is the link for the weather slideshow from 2019: http://bit.ly/3d3ATcF
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Flight
1 minuteFlight Of course, feathers are also used for flying! Different feathers do different jobs when it comes to flight. Some provide lift or direction, while others smooth the airflow over the bird. The Source: Page #10 Ornithology #19 Feathers: Feathered Friends
