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Report I wrote way back in fifth grade about the explosion of the Challenger Space Shuttle in 1986.

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It was on January 28, 1986 at 11:38 A.M. that the shuttle Challenger, NASA flight 51-L, the twenty-fifth shuttle flight, took off. It was the "Teacher in Space" mission. At lift-off, the temperature at ground level was 36° Fahrenheit, which was 15° Fahrenheit cooler than any previous launch by NASA. It was the Challenger's tenth flight. Take-off had been delayed several times. Finally the shuttle had taken off. The shuttle had climbed high in the sky thirty-five seconds after take-off, and it was getting hit…

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Back in eighth grade, everyone in my language arts class had to report about a good sized town, West Chicago, IL, in a different decade, and I picked the 1890's. Five of us from the class also made it into a Hyperstudio program. A teacher from one of the local schools was planning to put the Hyperstudio project on the internet and enter it in a contest, but I don't think that ever happened.

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"Not many people living today can fully or faintly recall the years of 1890 to 1900." (Scobey 93) The 1890s, also known as the Gay 90s were a time of many changes in the city of West Chicago, IL. The 1890s brought many good things, some bad things, and an interesting bicycle fad.

To begin with, there were many changes in the railroads. Railroads had some history before the 1890s. The Eastern U.S. had the first railroads of the U.S., but they were horse-powered. Later on, still in the 1800s, a man by the name of John Stevens…