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Friday Factoid Week 20

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First, another star-studded moonlit photo by Titus, this time of our place.

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The boys have been watching with fascination the various countries this blog is visited by during the week.  At last count, WordPress had tracked hits to Godmadeknown from 90 different countries!  (If we added in the hits on our older sites wingedwisdom and fullmanger there would be well over 100 countries!)  If you’ve never clicked on our page “Under the Same Sky,” check it out so you can read the list yourself, and even more importantly, so you can join us in praying for the gospel to go forth to each and every place.  On that page I mention the book “Operation World” which lists every nation on earth alphabetically and gives a missions report for them all.  This is the book we use to pray for the countries that have visited our blog and it has been hugely eye-opening for us.  Even more than that it’s been heart-opening.  Would you join us in prayer for these nations?  Just check tomorrow’s post of our weekly scripture readings and at the bottom will be a list of the 3 or 4 countries that we’ll be praying for this next week.

Friday Factoid Week 19

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Titus has been working on some star studded snow photography around our place this week.   Below is winterized version of the Cross and Cosmos photo which headlines this blog.

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Click here for a flashback from our Hawaiian homeschool 6 years ago!  Below are few factoids from this week’s study on Uranus.

Titania is Uranus’s largest moon. Pictures taken by the voyager 2 spacecraft show that it is made of ice and rock. The pictures also show that the surface of Titania has enormous canyons. One of the largest canyons is almost 1,000 miles long. Which is roughly the circumference (distance around) of Titania. That’s about half the size of our moon (by Nate, 11)

Uranus might look like a sleeping planet because it is lying down. So its rings are vertical orbiting over its poles. It rotates sideways, not up and down like other planets. God may have created it this way or an giant comet hit it causing it to topple over on its side we do not know for sure (by Joel, 13).

 

Friday Factoid Week 17

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Did you know that stuff in space actually does make noise?  NASA has recorded some of the sounds made by planets in our solar system, stars and even mysterious sounds in interstellar space.  Isn’t it cool to think that Earth has it’s own special song?  What must this cosmic orchestra sound like to God?  You can click on the following links for a small taste of “The Music of the Spheres.”

Earth’s Song here

Sounds of all the planets here

Intersteller space sounds here

If you’ve never heard it before make sure you also listen to this clip from a message by Louis Giglio about the sounds of the stars.

Louis Giglio here

And here’s a Flashback to go along with next week’s readings on the heavens giving praise.  If you’re into history you’ll love this seldom-heard story!