WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2016 Color me! WORD SEARCH Craft What You Need: • Tissue paper Tissue • Pipe cleaner • Construction paper Paper • Scissors • Glue Flowers Instructions: 1. Take a piece of tissue paper, and cut eight squares that are 5 inches across by 5 inches tall. 2. Stack the squares on top of each other and “fan fold” the stack. 3. Wrap the end of a green pipe cleaner tightly around the center of the folded tis- sue paper. 4. Open up the fan of tissue paper on each side of the pipe cleaner, and separate each sheet of tissue from the stack. 5. Cut out leaves from construction paper and glue them to the pipe cleaner. Now you have a beautiful flower to give to a friend! DID YOU KNOW? The Mausoleum • You may have heard someone say, “It’s raining cats and dogs.” There have been actual documented cases from at Halicarnassus all over the world of fish, frogs, dead he Mausoleum at men. The tomb was erected on a build such an extravagant build- birds, snakes, snails, beetles, worms Halicarnassus or Tomb of hill overlooking the city. The ing. Therefore, it is believed that and jellyfish raining down from the TMausolus was a tomb built whole structure sat in an enclosed construction was begun by sky in great numbers, but no reports between 353 and 350 BC at courtyard. At the center of the Mausolus before his death or con- of showers of cats or dogs. Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, courtyard was a stone platform on tinued by the next leaders. The • Almost two-thirds of the earth’s sur- Turkey) for Mausolus, a satrap in which the tomb sat. A stairway Mausoleum of Halicarnassus face is covered by water. If the earth the Persian Empire, and his sister- flanked by stone lions led to the resembled a temple and the only were flat, water would cover every- wife Artemisia II of Caria. The top of the platform, which bore way to tell the difference was its thing in a layer two miles deep! structure was designed by the along its outer walls many statues slightly higher outer walls. The • During a solar eclipse, the shadows of Greek architects Satyros and of gods and goddesses. At each Mausoleum was in the Greek- leaves make the same crescent Pythius of Priene. corner, stone warriors mounted dominated area of Halicarnassus, shape of the -eclipsing sun. The The Mausoleum was approxi- on horseback guarded the tomb. which in 353 was controlled by image is made by light passing Apricot-Mango smoothie mately 45 m (148 ft) in height, and At the center of the platform, the the Achaemenid Empire. The through tiny holes in the leaves. Ingredients: the four sides were adorned with marble tomb rose as a square Romans considered the KIDS RECIPES • Tired of the cold weather? Take a vaca- • 6 apricots, peeled, pitted, and chopped (about 2 c) sculptural reliefs, each created by tapering block to one-third of the Mausoleum one of the great won- tion on the hottest planet in the one of four Greek sculptor- Mausoleum’s 45 m (148 ft) height. ders of the world and it was for • 2 ripe mangoes, peeled and chopped (about 2 c) solar system - Venus. At over 800 Leochares, Bryaxis, Scopas of This section was covered with that reason that they called all • 1 c milk or plain yogurt degrees, it is hotter than Mercury Paros and Timotheus. The finished bas-reliefs showing action scenes, their magnificent tombs mau- • 4 tsp fresh lemon juice solea, after it. It is unknown exact- because the clouds and abundant • 1/4 tsp vanilla extract ly when and how the Mausoleum carbon dioxide hold in most of the • 5 ice cubes came to ruins. heat received from the sun. Many of the stones from the • Geologists have discovered there Instructions: ruins were used by the knights to seems to be more water miles deep 1. PLACE the apricots, mangoes, milk or yogurt, lemon fortify their castle at Bodrum; they between the rocks of Earth’s mantle juice, and vanilla extract in a blender. Process for 8 sec- also recovered bas-reliefs with than in all the oceans of the world. onds. Add the ice cubes, and process 6 to 8 seconds which they decorated the new The intense pressure of the tons of longer, or until smooth. building. Much of the marble was rocks above keeps the hot water 2. POUR into tall glasses, garnish with lemon twists, if burned into lime. In 1846 Lord from turning to steam and escaping. desired, and serve immediately. Stratford de Redcliffe obtained permission to remove these reliefs from the Bodrum. At the original site, all that remained by the 19th century were the foundations and Saturn some broken sculptures. This site was originally indicat- ed by Professor Donaldson and was discovered definitively by structure of the mausoleum was including the battle of the cen- Charles Newton, after which an considered to be such an aesthet- taurs with the lapiths and Greeks expedition was sent by the British ic triumph that Antipater of Sidon in combat with the Amazons, a government. identified it as one of his Seven race of warrior women. The expedition lasted three Wonders of the Ancient World. It On the top of this section of years and ended in the sending of was destroyed by successive the tomb thirty-six slim columns, the remaining marbles. At some earthquakes from the 12th to the ten per side, with each corner point before or after this, grave 15th century. The word mau- sharing one column between two robbers broke into and destroyed soleum has now come to be used sides; rose for another third of the the underground burial chamber, generically for an above-ground height. Standing between each but in 1972 there was still enough tomb. [pair of] column[s] was a statue. of it remaining to determine a lay- Behind the columns was a solid out of the chambers when they Construction cella-like block that carried the were excavated. Artemisia spared no expense in weight of the tomb’s massive roof. This monument was ranked building the tomb. She sent mes- The roof, which comprised most the seventh wonder of the world sengers to Greece to find the most of the final third of the height, was by the ancients, not because of its talented artists of the time. These pyramidal. Perched on the top size or strength but because of included Scopas, the man who was a quadriga: four massive hors- the beauty of its design and how aturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the sec- composed of hydrogen and helium (‘gas’). It lacks a defi- had supervised the rebuilding of es pulling a chariot in which rode it was decorated with sculpture or ond-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a nite surface, though it may have a solid core rotation the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus. images of Mausolus and ornaments. The mausoleum was Sgas giant with an average radius about nine times causes it to have the shape of an oblate spheroid; that The famous sculptors were (in the Artemisia. Halicarnassus’ principal architec- that of Earth. Although only one-eighth the average is, it is flattened at the poles and bulges at its equator. Vitruvius order): Leochares, Modern historians have point- tural monument, standing in a density of Earth, with its larger volume Saturn is just Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune, the other giant planets in Bryaxis, Scopas and Timotheus, as ed out that two years would not dominant position on rising over 95 times more massive. Saturn is named after the the Solar System, are also oblate but to a lesser extent. well as hundreds of other crafts- be enough time to decorate and ground above the harbor. Roman god of agriculture; its astronomical symbol rep- Saturn is the only planet of the Solar System that is less resents the god’s sickle. dense than water-about 30% less. Although Saturn’s Saturn’s interior is probably composed of a core of core is considerably denser than water due to the iron-nickel and rock (silicon and oxygen compounds). atmosphere. Jupiter has 318 times the Earth’s mass, SUDOKU This core is surrounded by a deep layer of metallic hydro- while Saturn is 95 times the mass of the Earth, Together, gen, an intermediate layer of liquid hydrogen and liquid Jupiter and Saturn hold 92% of the total planetary mass helium, and finally outside the Frenkel line a gaseous out- in the Solar System. On 8 January 2015, NASA reported er layer. Saturn has a pale yellow hue due to ammonia determining the center of the planet Saturn and its fam- crystals in its upper atmosphere. Electrical current within ily of moon to within 4 km. the metallic hydrogen layer is thought to give rise to Saturn’s planetary magnetic field, which is weaker than Atmosphere Earth’s, but has a magnetic moment 580 times that of The outer atmosphere of Saturn contains 96.3% Earth due to Saturn’s larger size. Saturn’s magnetic field molecular hydrogen and 3.25% helium by volume. The strength is around one-twentieth of Jupiter’s. The outer proportion of helium is significantly deficient compared atmosphere is generally bland and lacking in contrast, to the abundance of this element in the Sun. The quan- although long-lived features can appear. Wind speeds on tity of elements heavier than helium is not known pre- Saturn can reach 1,800 km/h higher than on Jupiter, but cisely, but the proportions are assumed to match the not as high as those on Neptune.