Fastest Car of the World

The Shelby supercar is the fastest known car in the world. The Shelby supercar is an American automobile manufactured near Washington and was founded in 1999 by the owner Jerold Shelby. They build the SSC Aero which has 1400hp which makes it the fastest production car in the world beating the Bugatti Veyron with 1001hp. The Car is also standing in the Guinness book of world records at 439km.
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Ripstik & Wave board history

26/2/2009
You may believe the Wave board is the original, but it was actually just the first brand that sold in the US. The original inventor of this two-wheeled skateboard was a Korean man who sold it in Korea by another name. Two American asked for the rights of the board and offered to pay money in order to build and sell it. The men however only paid the inventor 10% of what they promised, so the inventor took the idea to the Razor scooter company where they named the board the Ripstik.
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Blackjack

The history of Blackjack is unclear. Some people believe that Blackjack started in French casinos in the early 1700s where it was known as "vingt-et-un" The game became known as Blackjack because if a player held a Jack of Spades and an Ace of Spades as the 1st two cards, the player was the winner. So the Jack was the most important card and Spades are black, the game was called “Blackjack”. The goal of the game is to get a higher number than the other players, but the tricky thing is that you are not allowed to get more than 21 points. At the beginning you get 2 cards. But you can get more cards but you have to pay with chips one chip for a open card (not so good because every body can see what you got) or 2 chips for a closed card ( so only you can see). You can put money in the pot so at the end more money is in the “bank”.

Basketball

Passing, dunking, dribbling, blocking, shooting, rebounding, positioning and also fouling is part of the game we all love named basketball?

Basketball was founded in early December 1891 in Springfield Massachusetts by a Physical Education teacher from Canada, named Dr. James Naismith. He came from McGill University in Montréal. He was an instructor at the YMC Training School, now named Springfield College. To keep his students occupied, and on a high standard of fitness level through the long New England winter, he imagined this new game that we call basketball. After rejecting most of his ideas he wrote down the basic rules and nailed a peach basket over the door of the gym at 3.05m high. Today the official height of the basket is still 3.05 meters, but the rules take up over 10 pages today. The main aim of this game is to invade the opposing side and score by shooting the ball into the basket. The professional NBA stars like Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, Tony Parker, etc… and until 2002, the all-star Michael Jordan earn millions and millions in one season of basketball!
I really like the game because it combines running, throwing, jumping and many more kinds of activities I like!!

Swine flu

Swine flu, also known as Mexico flu, has spread over the whole world mostly by passengers of airplanes leaving Mexico City. The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised the alert level to 5, the second highest. Some countries have already started to distribute their emergency medical reserves. There are over ten countries affected by swine flu already:

Countries hit:
• Australia
• Austria
• Canada
• China
• Costa Rica
• Germany
• India
• Mexico
• USA
• United Kingdom
• Spain
• Israel
• New Zealand
• Russia







The first case of Mexico flu that affected human population was in 1938. The symptoms that occur when you are hit are: fever, runny nose, sore throat, diarrhoea , lack of appetite, vomiting and coughing. There is no vaccine against it but you can try to prevent it by washing your hands often, avoid big events, avoid staying in small rooms with many people and stop kissing. When you get infected you can fight the flu with medications like Tamiflu, an antibiotic that you normally take when you get common flu.
Everyday there are more people infected with the virus and in Mexico more then 100 people have already died. In Mexico, where the Flu originated, all the schools are now closed, no one is on the streets anymore and when people wear masks in front of their mouths and noses they cannot breathe in the virus. People all over the world are scared of a global epidemic.

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Rugby

Rugby started in the year 1823 when the football player William Webb Ellis took the ball and ran with it into the goal. Although some people are not sure if the story is true, it is said to be the beginning of rugby and the trophy of the world championship is named after William Webb Ellis. In modern rugby, two teams with 15players on each side try to get more points than the opponents. Therefore they have to bring the ball behind the touch-line.
At the beginning they had no kits that protected them. Later the game got faster and more violent and the kits became more protective. But the rules haven´t changed that much.
The best national rugby team at the moment is from New Zealand. The best team in New Zealand is the All Blacks, and for the kiwi people they are the most popular team.

Swine flu: A new and even more dangerous virus

Swine flu is the next big virus after chicken flu. It is equally dangerous, but harder to heal. It is newer, so at the moment, there are just two medicines for it. This new epidemic has already infected over 1000 people and killed about 65. It is very strong and spreads very fast. In the next few weeks it could be able to infect over 3000 people. This epidemic is the new no 1 world epidemic.
People handle it in many different ways: In some countries, the government gives out protectors ( facemasks)that the virus can’t spread out. In Mexico-city, all schools, kindergartens and universities are closed. Some people are even so scared, that they don’t leave their houses.
This epidemic also brings many costs with it. Who suffer the most, are tourist companies: they have to cancel every flight to or from Mexico-city. The only people who can really take advantage, are the pharmacy companies: they sell 5 times more medicine than normal.
The airports also have to prepare for the virus: The pilots and stewardesses need to look at every person for symptoms of swine flu: flying is a big problem: by flying a sickness can spread twice as fast as normal.
The two medicines we have for it are very expensive and don’t work so well. This makes the healing so hard.
It really is a bad sickness, but we will survive it!

The IB - Special

The IB offers all three stages of education – Primary years, Middle years and Diploma years. They are very famous for their pre-university diploma.
IB-schools have very high standards:

• They have been providing high-quality education for over 35 years: their curriculum is set from the world’s leading universities.
• They try to encourage the students to be independent and global thinkers. They have to be able to work with others and still be independent.
• They try to make the students think well about school. The students should feel at home in school. Therefore they try to create a nice learning environment.

This program is accessible in almost the whole world. There are IB – world schools 134 countries. Not all of these schools are private schools: over 50% of the students are in state funded schools. With this worldwide network, the IB is the biggest school-network in world.