Current educational news and an interesting nineteenth century advancement that could be used today. Here are the epochs in the history of the United States that I discussed in the podcast:
The Colonial Era
1600 - 1750
The Revolutionary Era
1751 - 1776
The Critical Period 1777 - 1789
The Early National Era 1790 - 1800
The Jeffersonian Era 1800 - 1828
The Antebellum Era 1829
- 1860
The Civil War Era 1860 - 1866
The Gilded Age 1867
- 1890
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Mysterious Rocks and Puzzling ExamsDiscussion of www.snopes.com's treatment of an 1895 8th grade exam, that makes today's college grads look like blooming idiots. Also, mysterious and perfect spheres found in Costa Rica which cannot be created using modern technology.As mentioned in the podcast, here are the nine rules of capitalization.
The nine rules are:
Capitalize the first word in a sentence.
Capitalize the pronoun I and the interjection O.
Capitalize the first word in a quotation.
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