Well I did post today, and I'm now going to be posting ever Wednesday. Please stop by and I promise I'll post on schedule. This story is kind of long, but I think everybody will enjoy it!

  

   Many colonies had tried to settle there. “There” is on Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina.

   Well, the first recorded settlers there had been attacked by Indians, and food was scarce. When the supply ship that they sent off came back, the settlers had hitched a ride back to who knows where. The supply ship left fifteen men there, probably looking for adventure!

   So in 1587, about a year or so after the fifteen men stayed, some settlers from England were going to try out living in the new world. Although they did not originally plan on staying on Roanoke Island, something happened and the ship’s captain wouldn’t let them stay. They had heard the stories and were a little at ease know that there were fifteen men settled there. But when they got there, there was no sign of any of the fifteen men…alive.

   This, you could see, was not exactly encouraging for these new settlers. Their leader, John White, went back to England for supplies. He was, for some reason, retained for three years. He returned to Roanoke Island only to find nothing. Nothing at all, there was no sign of the settlers there. The only thing found was a message carved into a tree: “CROATOAN.”

   What happened to them? They could’ve starved, been attacked by Indians, but nobody knows. These settlers are now known as “The Lost Colony.”

   It has been a mystery for centuries.

   But the Great Dismal Swamp carries a mystery: some rotting wood. Yeah, you would think it would be something a little more exciting. But the shape of the wood is in the form of an 80 foot boat.

   Weather this is true or not, for it is kind of a long stretch to think this has anything to do with the lost colony, we may never find out. This is why: George and Frank Ray, scientists from the Lost Colony Center, were going to go check this “boat” out. But all they were allowed to do was look, and take some pictures. This is because of the federal government; they have blocked all research, not allowing anybody to take samples of not only the wood, but even take samples of the ground around it.

   Do you think this is fair? Do you even think this could be a boat? Much less a boat connected to the Lost Colony?

   Honestly as I was writing this out, I thought that the wood would have rotted away, but obviously I’m not a scientist, and I do not really know how long it would take for it to disappear.

   I hope you enjoyed this long but interesting mystery!

  

Ok, this blog was almost abandoned!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know what happened!!!!!! But i'm going to post over the weekend. I'm very behind!!!!!!

  5 medals-great respect-this is what she earned at the Olympics at Sydney, Australia in 2000 for the track and field. Marion Jones (who is a running athlete), she was the first female to do that.

   For several years she has been asked numerous times if she had been using a drug called “the clear” to win. She said “no” every single year. But just recently she admitted that she did.

   This paragraph taken from God’s World News weekly reader:

         “‘I consumed this substance [the clear] several times before the Sydney Olympics and continued using it after,’ she told the judge in federal court. With the drug, she told him, she ‘felt different, trained more intensely’ and had ‘faster recovery and better times’”

   When she confessed, you could tell she regretted doing it; she had tears and hung her head.

   Mrs. Jones will probably lose her medals and pay all the winnings back plus an extra fine.

 Marion Jones confessing.

   Please post a comment for what you thought about the entry!

~NewsieGirl

  This is a really cool story!

 

   Tim Cope, an Australian, like adventures. For his last adventure he decided to travel, guess where. Mr. Cope decided to travel from Mongolia to Hungary. It was a 6200 mile  long trip, but he also had to go through mountains and desserts. And he did it by horseback! It took him 3 years to complete, which was longer than he expected. He traveled all by himself except for his 3 horses and dog, Tigon, who was given to him along the way.

   The terrain was not the only danger, there were also thieves. Tigon was actually dog napped and it took Mr. Cope a week to get him back. His horses were also stolen, but he eventually found them. He swam in the Black Sea; and was surrounded by wolves at night until he took the villagers’ advice about throwing firecrackers in his camp to scare them off.

   So after his arrive in Hungary he said, “Sometimes I didn’t think I would ever make it,” and “I’m very happy to be here.”

   It was definitely a long journey!

  Sorry this is such a short entry. But the next one for Thursday is longer.

   What would you do if you saw a laptop at a store for only $200? You would probably think it was a cheapy rip off. Well professor Nicholas Negroponte designed a laptop that is run by solar (sun) or hand cranked energy. Sounds like a good deal. But the catch is that if you buy one you have to buy another one. It is shipped off to another country for a poor child to learn. So the total cost for both is $400.       

   When I heard this story I thought it was an awesome idea! Out of all the bad things happening, it is always nice to hear about something like this.

Sorry I'm a day late. I promise I will get better at it! 

   As many of you have probably heard (becuse it was ALL over the news) Barry Bonds hit his 756^th home run. Beating  Hank Aaron’s record of 755 by 1. If you look at him when he played for the Pirates:

And then after:

 

You kind of get a suspicion of how he got so big so fast.

   The person who caught the ball sold it for $752,467 to Marc Ecko. Mr. Ecko is planning on donating it to the Baseball Hall of Fame. But one catch: he’s going to brand it with an asterisk (*) which means that it is “doubtful” or “further explanation needed.”

   The Giants are not actually renewing his contract. The Giants actually finished in last place in the National League.

   I think he used steroids but a lot of Giants fans just don’t want to believe that.

~NewsieGirl

  Ok, I'm really sorry I didn't post like I was supposed to...sorry. My house was seriously a zoo last week! But here we go!

Suing God?

Senator Ernie Chambers, from Omaha, Nebraska, was showing the state that you could file a lawsuit against anyone by doing it himself. Although he did complain about a woman’s lawsuit that should not have been allowed (so basically he was contradicting what he was saying).

   Senator Chambers filed a lawsuit against God! Yep, he has definitely got guts to do that! He sued God for “widespread death, destruction, and terrorization of million upon million of the earth’s inhabitants.” The actual lawsuit also mocks God and the Bible. “It also challenges God to ‘come out, come out, wherever you are (according to God’s World News weekly reader).’”

     Senator Chambers may have a point (don’t get me wrong, I think he’s totally wrong!) but God did kill a lot of people in Noah’s Flood…but God has saved millions of people who have sinned and do not actually deserve to live. The point is God is perfect and we should trust Him with everything.

   Honestly I think it is pretty scary that people can do (or for that matter want) to do something like that.

  Senator Ernie Chambers

~NewsieGirl

  Ok, here's my 2nd post. I've decided that I'm going to post on Tuesday and Thursday.....I think. That's what I'm shoting for.

In the Bible there are lots of stories with honey. For example, God referred to the Promised Land as “…a land flowing with milk and honey” (Exodus 3:8). When Samson kills a lion, honey appears in the lion carcass later. Scholars believe that the word “honey” was actually meant as a sweet mix of figs and dates. But recently archeologists found 30 ancient beehives in rows. They believe they could be 3,000 years old, which is during the time of King Solomon. This just proves how accurate the Bible really is.

  NewsieGirl