What is the story of the birds and the bees?  My parents never told me this story, help!?
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The birds and the bees don't have a particular story buddy! It just a common reference is made to tell a younger person about sex. As if parents don't really want to recognize in front of their kids that they did THAT to make YOU! LOL.
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There is a story in the bible (forgive me b/c I forget which book it is in) but it talks about why God created different languages & why he set apart different people. It talks about race & how it was not something that was created but something that the world & the environment around us has evolved.  That is why people closer to the equater have darker skin & those farther away have lighter skin, etc.. It explains all of that so keep reading.. You'll get there.. Oh yeah & dinosaurs are in the bible as well.. Trust me..
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Bees and ants originate from wasps(and they are some of natures' most useful creatures)  so yes, they were also the first paper makers, plus they were around before humns so we are an irritation to them!
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I honestly have no idea... sorry. Still, I think you might just like to read this story:\n\nThe Crane Wife (in short, it goes like this)\n\nA young, handsome, good-hearted, but poor farmer was walking home in a terrible snowstorm when he saw an injured bird fluttering down to the ground. He went over to it and found a beautiful white crane with a terrible wound. He bound up the wound with his own clothing and did what he could to help the bird. It recovered and flew away and he went home.\n\nLater that night there was a knock at his door. Opening the door, he found a beautiful, graceful, elegant young woman. "I have to come to live with you and be your wife," she said. So the couple stayed together, and they did not have much but they were very very happy.\n\nBut it was a long, hard winter, and it looked as though their meager store of food was going to run out. They did not know what to do, for times were hard and there is little work for a farmer in the dead of winter. So the woman thought to herself "Other women weave; I will weave cloth for my husband to sell." She told her husband her plan and he built her a loom. She said to him "I will weave cloth to sell, but you must promise me never to look in on me while I am weaving." "I promise," said her husband.\n\nFor three days behind closed doors she wove constantly, pausing neither to sleep nor to eat. When she finally emerged, she brought with her the most beautiful cloth her husband had ever seen--its whiteness had a purity and a shimmer unmatched by any other cloth. Her husband thanked her and begged her to sleep, for she was drained. He took the cloth to the nearby village and got a very good price for it indeed, for it was the finest cloth anybody had ever seen. So for a time the poor farmer and his wife had enough.\n\nBut the winter continued and soon enough that money ran out. The couple did not know what to do and the husband cried because he could not provide for himself and his wife. Once again, the wife decided to go to her loom and weave, and once again she told her husband "You must promise never to look in while I am weaving." "I promise," said her husband.\n\nThis time the wife wove for four days and four nights, stopping neither to eat nor to sleep. When finally she emerged she was exhausted and could barely move, but she brought with her a fabric so white, so fine, that it looked like it was made of snow. It shone, it glowed with whiteness and purity. The farmer took this cloth to the village and got an even better price than before. The man who bought the cloth also bought the farmer a drink, and he asked him "How does your wife make such beautiful cloth? What kind of thread does she use?" The farmer did not know; his wife never bought thread. The man told him "Cloth such as this, so fine, would fetch a high, high price in the city! If your wife weaves more cloth I will be your partner, and sell the cloth in the city, and we will share the proceeds. You need never work again!"\n\nThe farmer was ecstatic. When he went home he told his wife of his plans. The woman listened in silence but a tear slid down her face. "Well," she told her husband, "I will weave for you one more time. But you must promise not to look in on me while I am weaving." "I promise," said her husband.\n\nSo she went in her room, closed the door, and began weaving. But whereas before her husband had been patient, he was no longer the simple farmer he had been. Now he was consumed by curiosity. What was his wife doing? How could she weave without thread? Eventually he could stand it no longer, and on the fifth day he edged the doors open and peeped in. What he saw made him cry out in shock. Sitting at the loom was not a woman, but a snow-white crane plucking feathers from its breast and weaving them into a shimmering, shining fabric. But the crane was plucked almost bare and was now
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They must have escaped from someone - they are not native to America.  They may have been adopted by the starlings, so they will probably survive. They don't usually live in such cold climates though. Help them by feeding them through your bird feeder.  Just out of curiosity what colour are they???
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"Apple, The Only Daughter"\nSounds interesting. Sorry, it's a picture book, and the full text is not available online. Here is a translated version of a summary page. You could type in the text on an online translator, or look at the pictures to try to understand the story.
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:)\n\nNow I'm guessing your teacher really wants your opinion. (not mine) But here.....let me help you get started....ok here we go:\n\nDid the story sound like a myth? Perhaps it was an explanation that the people of the time created because they didn't have science and technology to explain things. Perhaps it was a tale passed down from generation to generation that was embellished along the way. \n\nIn your paper, tell what your true opinion is of the story and why people created such a tale. \n\ngood luck.....you can do this!!
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I don't remember exactly, but the whole backstory wasn't in the washington irving story. About the mother and the conspiracy. Well here's a website that can you help you a little better. It explains both movie & washington irving story!\nhttp://www.geocities.com/legendofsleepyhollow/home.html
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Not really -- my mama told me about the birds and the bees long ago.
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The plot centers around a mother who has raised her two children while the father is at war. These children have an allergy to the sun and cannot go into it. Because they've lived in darkness for so long, its all they've known. When the strange things begin to happen, the believe they are being haunted by ghosts. You find out however, that living in darkness has simply made them blind to the fact that they are indeed the ghosts that have been haunting a real family, and the servants have been sent to help them see the truth. \nThe part where they children are allowed into the light is there awakening, and they realize that they are the haunters, not the haunted...
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Lazarus Child. it's less than 2 hours and I dont understand the story
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Now I have theories here! But I don't know!  go to www.sirpercy.org and see what you think after reading all the background info there.  There is a LOT of history that goes beyond the novels and there is a family tree dating back centuries before the books were set and naming thier children.  I can't work out whether it is a very elaborate fan writing or a biography?
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Oh, wow. Try reading it!  If you don't have time, do Cliff's Notes (but those summaries are sooo boring compared to the real stories). You can also watch the movie version derived from the Broadway play adaptation. \n\nhttp://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/mice.html\n\nhttp://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/mice/\n\nhttp://www.sparknotes.com/lit/micemen/\n\nhttp://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/miceandmen/\n\nMovie rental: http://www.blockbuster.com/search/PerformKeyWordSearchAction.action
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I know a story about an emperor who had a songbird that could sing beautifully.  One day he got a mechanical bird that could sing and became enamored with it and forgot about his real bird.  The bird was sad and flew away.  The mechanical bird broke and emperor became sad and realized how much he missed the real bird.  The real bird came and sang for him again.  It is a nice story.
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the quest of the Golden Toadstool. Anyone knows anything about this story? I think my student may have copie? \nI gave an assignment and one student turned in a story about a gnome a golden toadstool and a dragon. The gnome keeps the toadstool in the forest. The dragon takes it away, destroying the forest. The gnome goes and finds the dragon, kills it and returns the toadstool to the forest and the toadstool being magical puts the forest back together. \nThere is no way this student wrote this picture story book.\nThanks for any help!
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it,s a long story....and i dont know how to say it...but\nyou can read it by yourself...from the wikipedia web page...below are the links....hope it will answer your question :)
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How did he get his little hands on the magazine would be my first question.\n\nHonestly, he is probably just curious. I would not analyze this too much unless he has been showing other characteristics. Then I would talk to him about it.\n\nMaybe its time to have the big talk about the birds and the bees!