Maize Mountain – A Mayan story about corn
A bolt of lightning in the sky, like the one that split open Maize Mountain Where did this story come from? Maya people liked to tell a story about how people [...]
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09, 2017
History of Electricity – Science of shocks
History of electricity: A bolt of lightning in the sky Why did it take so long to control electricity? Like other inventions, electricity took thousands of years to develop. For [...]
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09, 2017
Jupiter, a Roman god
Jupiter, a Roman god (fresco from the House of the Dioscuri, Pompeii, ca. 79 AD) Who was Jupiter? Jupiter was the chief of the gods for the Romans, the way Zeus was for the [...]
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08, 2017
Tower of Babel – Bible stories
Breughel's medieval painting of the Tower of Babel From the Bible story: According to the Book of Genesis in the Bible, after the Flood people again began to get wicked. Noah's Flood [...]
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08, 2017
What makes thunder and lightning? – Weather science
A bolt of lightning in the sky Hot air and cold air are constantly moving around the Earth, as the hot air rises and the cold air sinks - that's what [...]
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08, 2017
Static electricity – Thunder and lightning project
A lot of rubber balloons. You can create your own static electricity and then discharge it like a tiny lightning bolt. Take a rubber balloon (just a regular balloon) and [...]
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08, 2017
What is electricity? Physics
What is electricity? A bolt of lightning in the sky What is electricity made of? Everything in the universe is made of atoms. Those atoms are made of electricity. Atoms are [...]
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06, 2017
Who was the Norse god Thor?
Viking Bronze, from Iceland, 1000 AD Thor was the German god of strength, and the god of thunder and lightning (like Jupiter or Zeus). These three gods of the Greeks, [...]
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06, 2017
Who was Lei Kung? Ancient Chinese gods
A bolt of lightning in the sky Lei Kung was the Chinese god of thunder, and his wife, Lei Zi, was the goddess of lightning. He makes thunder with his [...]
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06, 2017
Golden Hall – Chinese Architecture
Golden Hall (Wudang Mountain, 1416 AD) Who built the Golden Hall? Ming Dynasty emperors built the Golden Hall palace on the slopes of Wudang Mountain in 1416 AD. The Golden [...]
