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Friday, August 7, 2009

Memories

Today was the very last day of camp*. Here are some snapshots of week 10, one of the best weeks of my life!

*I cried so much today and made others cry at the sight of my crying. What a wonderful place I'm going to have to leave tomorrow. :(

Another cool fact

Probably the earliest seismoscope was invented by the Chinese philosopher Chang Heng in A.D. 132. This was a large urn on the outside of which were eight dragon heads facing the eight principal directions of the compass. Below each dragon head was a toad with its mouth opened toward the dragon. When an earthquake occurred, one or more of the eight dragon-mouths would release a ball into the open mouth of the toad sitting below. The direction of the shaking determined which of the dragons released its ball. The instrument is reported to have detected an earthquake 400 miles away that was not felt at the location of the seismoscope. The inside of the seismoscope is unknown: most speculations assume that the motion of some kind of pendulum would activate the dragons.

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Friday, August 7, 2009

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