My World

May. 27, 2008

sorry i haven't logged on in a very long time it's mostly because i've been on webkinz and xbox 360 and there's one thing i wanted to tell you all about it's that my freind lives in the country and out there is acttualy is bugs that eat your clothes and they bite anything in there way so my friend picked up one and it tried to bite him so he made it kill itself by making it bite itself and we made a stinkbug and a japenese fighting beetle fight ( the stinkbug won).

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Apr. 23, 2008

hello it's jacob agian i wanted to teel you about a thing called webkinz i got my first at christmas from my brother it was a striped cat ... well anyway what i wanted to tell you is you get to unlock a virtual world and you can make a house and earn money and buy stuff for your pet including beds , tvs . etc. there is all the pets in the world made into little stuffed animals that get you online and the more you get the more kinscash you get it gives you 2,000 kinscash and you can play games and get a job and go gem mining and much much more i can not beleive it but its exactly like real life exept your pets have ant thing they could want ...and when you want to do somthing go to thing to do and you can go places and when you want to go back to your house go to things to do and click on my room well just thougt i would tell you about it well i'm going to play webkinz this is jacob out

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Apr. 23, 2008

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Feb. 4, 2008

pirates

Pirates

chapter one

Once upon a time I was skipping rocks down by the lake when I saw a body floating on a piece of drift wood I was just about to call for help when I noticed he was a pirate so when he drifted to land I opened his sleeve he had a tattoo on his arm according to it he was

Captain soviet he woke up for a second and said something about a sea goddess named colipso and she wanted to smite him off the face of the earth or something like that well he went back to sleep the moment he spoke the last word . I searched him and found a musket, 2 pistols,, and a circlet . he could’ve killed me so I decided not to tell my mom were I got my new weapons the next day I saw him send a message bird when he wasn’t looking I shot the letter it was carrying and opened it . to my surprise it wasn’t a letter at all but a treasure map and the treasure was on this very island ! ! I tried to ask him to help me find something he gave me a compass

Chapter 2

Well he said it points to what I want most it pointed to a spot that had blood stains around it that is I once heard that to mark the spot of there treasure they use there men’s blood well he noticed what it pointed to to so it was a race he said it was cheating if I didn’t run like him which when he runs he looks like a drunk when he runs so we had to do it but then he grabbed a broken bottle and hit me in the stomach and ran off saying “time is gold mate” then I grabbed my circlet and he took a sword from a grave (apparently the guy had been a British guard) and we started to fight he complemented me on my footwork and then I grabbed the chest

Chapter three

but then I saw why he was smiling he had the key I didn’t so we kept fighting finally he dropped the key and I grabbed it he ran after me but I was to fast or so it seemed I slipped and the key and fell out of my hand into a pond I dived after it and caught it but when I came back up I saw ten pirates all pointing guns at my face and I noticed that there had been another thing tied to the bird they said to hand over the chest and key so I did and when they opened it nothing was inside so this is my pirate adventure

the end

or so i thought "get on my ship lad we need a cabin boy " he said . i had to because they had me hand cuffed . we sailed for a month and found an island and we found a treasure chest with no gold but a map . it told us to go to the south pole we did and we found another chest it had another darned map . this time it told us to go to the north pole and this time we waded through water but aventelly caption died and he apppointed me caption so my pirate name became dredded jones . we kept searching and found the north pole chest and of course it had a map in it and this map led to my home island it was there the whole time i just didn't look hard enough so capin died for nthing well thats the end of my pirate adventures for now.

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Feb. 3, 2008

mammoth cave #2

When Franklin Gorin and
Stephen Bishop, Cave Guide

Using a tallow candle, Stephen would

smoke his name on the ceiling of the cave.

To avoid wax dripping in his eyes, he would

use a mirror – and sometimes get the letters

backward.

of his courage, intelligence, and

untiring zeal. He is extremely

attentive and polite, particularly

so to the ladies, and he runs

over what he has to say with

such ease and readiness,

and mingles his statement

of facts with such lofty

language, that all classes,

male and female, listen

with respect, and involuntarily

smile at his remark.

His business as a guide

brought him so often in

contact with the intellectual

and scientific, that he has

become acquainted with every

geological specimen in the cave, and

having a prodigious memory, has at

his tongue’s every incident of interest

that has transpired during his administration.”

“Stephen and Alfred belonged to

Dr. Croghan, the late owner of the

cave, and are to be manumitted in

another year, with a number of other

Stephen

slaves. They are now receiving

wages, in order to enable them to

begin freedom with a little capital, in

Liberia, their destined home.”

Stephen became a free man the

following year, but he chose to

remain at the cave.

Stephen died during the summer of

1857. He is buried in the “Old

Guide’s Cemetery” on the ridgetop

south of the cave entrance.

Quoted material taken from

Bishop, the Man and the Legend

Mammoth Cave

National Park Service

U.S. Department of the Interior
National Park

A.A. Harvey purchased
Mammoth Cave in 1838,
Gorin brought his young slave, the
17-year old Stephen Bishop, to be a
new cave guide.
In October of 1839, Stephen met his
new master. Gorin had sold Mammoth
Cave to Dr. John Croghan.
“Stephen, handsome, good humored,
intelligent, the most complete
of guides, the presiding genius of this
territory. He is a middle-sized mulatto,
owned, as they say here, of
handsome, bright features. He has
occupied himself so frequently in
exploring the various passages of the
cavern, that there is now no living
being who knows it so well. The
discoveries made have been the result

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Feb. 3, 2008

Mammoth cave info

Archeology at Mammoth Cave

A Changing World

to the north, megafauna became extinct, and the local

environment changed from a forest dominated by

pine, spruce, and fi r to a forest of mixed hardwoods

containing oak and hickory. The population of the

Indians also increased. With these environmental

changes came changes in the ways native Americans

lived. Instead of hunting megafauna, they hunted

smaller animals such as deer, turkey, and raccoon.

They continued to make fi ne stone tools, but they

made them in diff erent shapes and sizes, refl ecting

the new hunting methods developed to more effi

ciently capture smaller animals. Because these descendants

of PaleoIndians practiced a diff erent way

of life from their ancestors, archeologists have given

them a diff erent name:

Archaic period dates from 8000 B.C. to 1000 B.C. in

Kentucky. The earliest Archaic peoples continued a

foraging way of life similar to the that of their Paleo-

Indian ancestors. Small groups of related peoples,

called “bands,” frequently moved within their hunting

territories, collecting various plants and animals

as they became seasonally available. Several Early

Archaic (8000-6000 B.C.) sites exist in Mammoth

Cave National Park.

Over time, temperatures warmed, glaciers retreatedthe Archaic Indians. The

Over 12,000 years ago,

of the North American continent, small nomadic groups of people wandered over the

Kentucky landscape. Today, archeologists refer to these early American people as

which means “ancient Indians.” However, we know very little about them. We

don’t know what they called themselves and we don’t know what language they spoke.

We know that they were experts at working stone to make spear points for thrusting

into their prey. We know that they lived by hunting animals and gathering plants, and we

know that part of their time was spent hunting megafauna (large animals) such as bison,

giant ground sloths, and mastodons. The PaleoIndians were a transient people, moving

frequently and moving long distances in order to follow animal herds and collect nuts,

berries, and other foods that ripened with the seasons. Because these people moved so

often and traveled in small groups, there have been few opportunities to locate the places

where they camped. So far, only a few spear points of the PaleoIndian people have been

found in Mammoth Cave National Park.

when huge sheets of thick glacial ice covered large portionsPaleoindians,

The First Ones

Getting Crowded

of bands grew, and the hunting territory of each

band shrank in size. The smaller territories and the

diff erences in local environments between territories

led to the development of more and more diff erences

between groups. Members of each band adapted

to the conditions, developing new tools and modifying

seasonal movements and hunting and gathering

strategies to take advantage of the resources within

their own territory. In Mammoth Cave National

Park, this slow adaption to local environments is

refl ected in an increase in the number and types of

artifacts, especially spear points, found from

Middle Archaic period

did not live in isolation. They came in contact with

other bands, and they exchanged chert, shells, copper,

and marriage partners.

As the numbers of Archaic people grew, the numberthe(6000-3000 B.C.). Bands

The Miners

the numbers of people in this region continued to

grow. During the later portion of the Archaic period,

the Indians began making pottery, cultivating

gardens, and growing domesticated plants. It was

near the end of the Late Archaic period that Indians

began exploring Mammoth Cave and other caves

in the area, collecting minerals they found. Why

Late Archaic people traveled miles within Mammoth

Cave to collect selenite, mirabilite, epsomite,

and gypsum is a matter of speculation. The most

likely reason is that these minerals were valued for

their medicinal properties and/or ceremonial uses,

and that they were traded to other groups for food,

shells, chert, and other goods.

During the Late Archaic period (3000-1000 B.C.)

Mammoth Cave

l Park

Burnt cane torches

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Feb. 3, 2008

i'm bord please please please post a comment please?

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Jan. 22, 2008

just wanna talk

last weekend i was out camping with scouts at lasuras don't know if you might have heard of it or not but i learned to cook ,we stayed up till 11:30 p.m. and wached movies well that's all i have to say.

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Jan. 22, 2008

writing prompt

hello it's me i havent been on my blog in a while but here's my writing prompt : ello mate out in my field picking some corn to turn into popcorn now don't get me wrong it's tiring but it's worth it . now i'm gonna give the camera to the kernal . ey mate i pop because of water inside me it expands and pops . that was my writing prompt like it .

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Dec. 13, 2007

my trip to the glass axis

hello its me jacob yesterday they had a field trip to the glass axis and see them make glass but that wasnt the best part he blew a bubble out of glass and yes i said blew but this on when it hit the ground it didnt sound so pretty . but that wasnt the best yet i got to make a glass ornement . and the temputure to make the glass was 300 and something

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Sep. 18, 2007

today i just woke up and i havent got much to tell yu except as you can see ive got a playlist as you can see.

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Sep. 16, 2007

hello this is jacob i've been realy busy last wensday / saturday i had the newspaper speaking of saturday i had scouts every morning and geocaching lots of it and if you wanna do geocaching go to ; www.geocaching.com and im raising monarchs and ones already turned in to a chrislis i dont no if i spelled that right or not but you still no what it means and if you dont type it in my coments.

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Jul. 17, 2007

hello again

yesterday i had more things waiting well my family does this thing called geo cashing were you have to look for thing that people hid out in the forest well we found them but we walked for two hours we also found one baby deer skull a dea racoon ((the bones were poking out of its fur))and a jaw bone. yep when i got back i swam and then when i got out of the pool my dad had made sour crup so that day all went well.

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Jul. 16, 2007

hola

today i had nothing to do so i had to clean and beleivie me if there's one thing i hate it is cleaning but after that i watched tv. good good all went well.

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About Me

I am 9 yrs. old and this is my blog.