Franklin's mixed legacy in early American diplomacy
Ralph Izard urged recalling Dr. Franklin as crucial to America’s political salvation while Franklin rode a France diplomatic mission. Starkey Flythe of the Saturday Evening Post recently offered his interpretation of Franklin’s actions abroad.
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Saturday Evening Post
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Sidney High Music Programs Grow With Jazz Ensemble and Theory Class
Mike Lewis, Sidney High School band director, launches two new programs. The Jazz Ensemble began practice January 2 at 7 30 am to teach jazz basics and differences from classical music and aims for district contest and a spring concert. A music theory class meets weekly to explain music mechanics from scales and chords to composition and history, spanning classical to jazz and rock. Seniors plan fund donations, juniors plan prom, and sophomores await class rings as activities unfold.
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Sidney High School
Sidney High
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National Association of Jazz Educators
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Metric system inches in on U S by Tom Geu
An article outlines the United States move toward metric measurements by 1980. It notes packaging includes metric equivalents, some vehicle scales show metric, and scientists support metric use for trade. Mentions meter as base length and prefixes deci centi milli kilo and more. It raises questions about land boundaries acres to hectares and legal adoption since 1799.
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Tom Geu
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America
France
SHS Student Keeps Tarantula as Quirky Pet
Dan Buecker, a junior at SHS, adds a tarantula to his growing menagerie. The spider, weighing about ten grams with a five to six inch width, lived in a vented plastic container at school and a larger jar at home. Teachers and students noted the unusual pet sparked both curiosity and caution, with the nurse advising he keep it at home.
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