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GEOGRAPHY
CHEMISTRY
ECONOMICS
SCIENCE
HISTORY
BIOLOGY
PHYSICS
GRAMMAR
ALGEBRA
MATH

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True stories

A youth orchestra that started in a parking garage now reaches hundreds of thousands of children.

Caracas, Venezuela

A youth orchestra that started in a parking garage now reaches hundreds of thousands of children. In 1975, the Venezuelan educator and musician José Antonio Abreu gathered just eleven students in an underground garage in Caracas and handed them instruments. He believed that learning music together could teach discipline, teamwork and hope, especially to children with little else. His program, later known as El Sistema, grew into a national network of youth and children's orchestras serving hundreds of thousands of young musicians. One of them, Gustavo Dudamel, became a world-famous conductor. Today the idea has inspired similar music education programs in more than sixty countries.

A teenager who could barely read English taught himself to build a windmill from a library book.

Wimbe, Malawi

A teenager who could barely read English taught himself to build a windmill from a library book. When hard times forced fourteen-year-old William Kamkwamba out of school in Wimbe, Malawi, he refused to stop learning. He borrowed science books from a small village library, including an American textbook about energy. Unable to read much of the English, he followed the diagrams and reasoned out the physics for himself. From blue gum trees, bicycle parts and scrapyard metal, he assembled a windmill that powered lights and radios in his family's home. Neighbours came to charge their phones. His curiosity later carried him onto famous stages and into a bestselling memoir.

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Did you know?

math: The equals sign (=) was invented in 1557 by Welsh scholar Robert Recorde, who drew two lines because nothing is more equal.
science: The word 'scientist' did not exist until 1833, when William Whewell coined it; before then researchers were called natural philosophers.
history: Herodotus earned the nickname 'Father of History' from Cicero, yet the Greek word he used, historia, simply meant inquiry or investigation.
geography: Eratosthenes coined the very word geography over two thousand years ago, and measured the size of the Earth to within a few percent.
chemistry: Its name descends from Arabic al-kimiya, the root of alchemy, the medieval quest to turn ordinary metals into gold.
biology: The subject only got its modern name in 1802, when Lamarck and Treviranus independently began calling the study of life biology.
physics: The name comes from the Greek physis, meaning nature; Aristotle titled one of his major works Physics.
grammar: The glittery word 'glamour' is actually a Scottish twist on 'grammar,' back when deep book learning looked a lot like magic.
economics: In 1849 the writer Thomas Carlyle branded the subject 'the dismal science,' a gloomy nickname that has stuck ever since.
algebra: Its name comes from Arabic al-jabr, 'reunion of broken parts,' a term that also meant setting broken bones back together.
geometry: The word geometry comes from Greek roots meaning earth measurement, because it began as a practical tool for surveying land.
calculus: Newton and Leibniz developed calculus independently in the seventeenth century, then feuded bitterly for years over who deserved the credit.
astronomy: Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences, practiced by ancient Babylonians and Egyptians who carefully tracked the stars and planets.
literature: The word literature comes from the Latin littera, meaning letter, the very same root behind literate and literacy.
philosophy: The word philosophy comes from Greek roots meaning love of wisdom, and once covered nearly all fields of human knowledge.

Trivia

What is the chemical symbol for gold, a metal often studied in chemistry class?
Au
In geometry, how many degrees do the three angles of a triangle add up to?
180 degrees
How many lines make up a standard musical staff?
Five
Which ancient Greek writer is nicknamed the Father of History?
Herodotus
Which school subject covers continents, oceans, capitals and world climate?
Geography

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What is the chemical symbol for gold, a metal often studied in chemistry class?

In their words

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert Einstein

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela

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