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Just as the people living in your neighborhood can come and go, ecological communities change over time. One way a community can change is if external conditions shift. If the weather in a certain geographical area suddenly gets colder, certain populations will be better off and will thrive, while others will shrink an...
Carbon is a primary element of all organic life forms on Earth. Carbon also is distributed in geologic material, oceans and the atmosphere. Concern has been mounting about the rapid buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — which is increasing by more than 3 billion tons per year. Industrialization and the burning ...
For those of you who have taken geometry, you may remember functions vaguely. Functions deal with the way two sets of numbers relate to each other - let's look at slope-intercept form equations as a simple example. We wanted to graph the line expressed by the equation y=2x+3, what would that line look like? Well, to fi...
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On this day in 1835, Benjamin Milam, a hero of the Texas Revolution, was killed by Mexican forces during the Siege of Bexar. Milam was born in Kentucky in 1788. After spending several years in Mexico and supporting the country’s efforts for independence from Spain, Milam earned Mexican citizenship and was made a colone...
Climate change is strongly affecting the Arctic and the resulting changes to the polar vortex and jet stream are in turn contributing to extreme weather in many places, followed by crop loss at a huge scale. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a September 6, 2012, forecast that continued deteriorat...
The Good Dog Lesson Plan - Grades: 3–5 Subject Area: Language Arts Reading Level: 4.1 Have you ever wondered what a dog is thinking and saying when it wags its tail and barks loudly? In Avi's novel The Good Dog, he explores the magical world of dogs who talk, think, feel, and protect their human owners from life's dang...
Serving the spacecraft Just as a car has a number of essential requirements that allows it to function (an engine, battery, steering and wheels, for example), so a spacecraft has essential systems that allow it to operate in space. Most of these systems are housed in a section of the spacecraft usually called a 'servic...
Slowly but surely, astronomers have been making huge strides in understanding planets around other stars. From just proving they existed about 20 years ago, we’re now at the point where they can determine the composition of an exoplanet, its weather patterns and — as of this week — even the length of its day. Researche...
Prepositions function within phrases to modify main verbs, nouns, or adjectives. They also express spatial and temporal relationships between parts of a sentence. 1. Location: at, on, in: Prepositions differ according to the number of dimensions they refer to. We can group them into three classes using concepts from ge...
Scientists used to believe that the sand in the Sahara Desert was left there by sea water that once covered the area. It is true that much of the Sahara was covered with water more than 100 million years ago. But we now know that the Sahara’s sand is much newer than that. The Sahara’s sand is actually all that is left ...
Earth's San Andreas Fault Date: 11 Feb 2000 The Earth's surface is broken. Cracks in the Earth's crust known as faults can run for hundreds of kilometers. These faults are frequently the sites of major earthquakes as the tectonic plates that cover the surface of the Earth shift. Pictured above is San Andreas Fault in C...
|Credit: Schankz | Shutterstock.com| You may have been told as a child that an earthworm will regenerate into two new worms if it's cut in half crosswise. But if you've ever experimented with the tube-like animals, you've probably been disappointed. Though it may not seem like it, earthworms have a distinctive head and...
Overview of Childhood Immunizations Immunizations, also called vaccinations or inoculations, protect children against more than a dozen serious diseases that can cause severe illness, lifelong disabilities, or even death. The best time to immunize children is when they are young. This is because most of the diseases fo...
The palatine tonsil is located at the back of the throat. One tonsil is located on the left side of the throat and the other is located on the right side. The tonsils play a role in protecting the body against respiratory and gastrointestinal infections. Each tonsil consists of a network of crypts that store cells used...
May 27, 2014 Scientists working with data from NASA's Cassini mission have developed a new way to understand the atmospheres of exoplanets by using Saturn's smog-enshrouded moon Titan as a stand-in. The new technique shows the dramatic influence that hazy skies could have on our ability to learn about these alien world...
In August 1788 Rhode Island was the setting for one of the major land battles of the Revolutionary War. The Marquis de Lafayette, in writing of this encounter, termed it "the best fought action of the war." The immediate goal of the Continental Army at this time was to drive the British from Newport. George Washington ...
As Japan continues to rebuild after March’s devastating Tohoku earthquake, the broader effects of the subsequent tsunamis are still being sorted out. One of the most dramatic discoveries comes from scientists at NASA. Hoping to observe the effects of the earthquake on sea ice, researchers noticed several large icebergs...
The Walk the Line activity in the Montessori environment provides numerous opportunities to advance gross motor skills to fine motor skills. Language and communication are present in every aspect of life, and this activity offers opportunity for well-planned, structured, coordinated movement that serves to develop the ...
|This article needs additional citations for verification. (December 2009)| The Colonial empires began with a race of exploration between the then most advanced maritime powers, Portugal and Spain, in the 15th century. The initial impulse behind these dispersed maritime empires and those that followed was trade, driven...
Copyright © 2007 Dorling Kindersley Einstein realized that the speed of light is always the same. He then calculated that an object travelling near this speed acts strangely: it shrinks in length, increases in mass, and time slows down. He also calculated that mass alters space. So small objects do not travel in straig...
Learn something new every day More Info... by email Classicism and Romanticism are artistic movements that have influenced the literature, visual art, music, and architecture of the Western world over many centuries. With its origins in the ancient Greek and Roman societies, Classicism defines beauty as that which demo...
A spectacular haul of stone tools discovered beneath a collapsed rock shelter in southern Arabia has forced a major rethink of the story of human migration out of Africa. The collection of hand axes and other tools shaped to cut, pierce and scrape bear the hallmarks of early human workmanship, but date from 125,000 yea...
Black Spot disease appears on the leaves of trees and shrubs as small black circular spots that range in size from about ¼ inch to 1 inch in diameter. They normally appear on the upper surface of the leaf, starting in the early to mid-spring. As the disease progresses, the leaf tissue around the black spot often yellow...
Cell and Sector Terminology With cellular radio we use a simple hexagon to represent a complex object: the geographical area covered by cellular radio antennas. These areas are called cells. Using this shape let us picture the cellular idea, because on a map it only approximates the covered area. Why a hexagon and not ...
For too long there has been an apparently unending debate about the basic manner in which Tyrannosaurus and its near relatives obtained their food. Were these animals dedicated predators, hunting down and killing their prey before consuming it, or scavengers, too slow and poorly equipped to catch live prey, but instead...
Kindergarten is a wake-up moment for many kids with ADHD. Suddenly, they run into demands to "sit still and listen." Many encounter rules for the first time. Not only do they need to learn the rules, they also need to make new friends, learn new skills, get along with students from other backgrounds, and work in large ...
Comb (unfinished), ox horn, maker unknown, donor C. E. Wigzell, Sydney, Australia, 1874-1884 Plastics have been described as "materials that can be moulded or shaped into different forms under pressure or heat." In the twentieth century the move away from natural raw materials to synthetically produced plastics changed...
Currently, the average global surface air temperature isn't rising as fast as it did in the '80s and '90s. Understanding why requires reminding yourself that at least 90 percent of the energy added to the climate system by human activity over the years has gone into the ocean rather than the atmosphere. Earth’s oceans ...
Introduction to Division Lesson Plan Activity Math Common Core Standards: Number and Operations in Base Ten, Mathematical Processes Introduce the difficult concept of division to your students in a way that relates to their lives. This activity activates students background knowledge, and provides real-life examples th...
Making computers mobile was half the battle. Connecting them on-the-go was the other half. Early mobile computers could only communicate over regular telephone lines using modems, like their desktop cousins. When wireless networking arrived, it was a convenience for laptops, letting them move around homes or offices. B...
Charles D. Rafkind Colonial National Historical Park exists within a dynamic environment that has been defined and changed by both natural and human activity. The park's linear nature helps staff to manage its natural resources as a single unit. However, just beyond the park's narrow borders, residential and commercial...
What Is the Hydrologic Cycle? The hydrologic cycle involves water moving from the surface (most importantly the oceans) to the atmosphere, across the land, and everywhere in between. Environmental scientists know that the hydrologic cycle includes various processes that change water from solid to liquid to gas form and...
A previously unknown, large impact basin has been discovered by the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft during its second flyby of Mercury in October 2008. The impact basin, now named Rembrandt, more than 700 kilometers (430 miles) in diameter. If the Rembrandt basin had...
Chimpanzee Anatomy and Appearance Chimpanzees are large primates that have long yet sparse black hairs covering their bodies with the exception of their face, palms and the soles of their feet. Their hair not only allows them to remain warm in areas at higher altitudes but it also provides their skin with some protecti...
Polio (also known as poliomyelitis) is a highly contagious disease caused by a virus that attacks the nervous system. Children younger than 5 years old are more likely to contract the virus than any other group. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in 200 polio infections will result in permanent paral...
The difference between a control group and an experimental group is one group is exposed to the conditions of the experiment and the other is not. An experimental group is the group in a scientific experiment where the experimental procedure is performed. This group is exposed to the independent variable being tested a...
Top 10 Terms Students Need to Know to Be Successful on Standardized Tests Mastering these key words will help students prep for open-ended test questions. - Grades: 3–5, 6–8 Standardized testing is a stressful time for everyone involved: students, teachers, and parents. Preparing students for standardized testing is a ...
Light passing through a medium such as air or water can be absorbed and scattered by the molecules in the medium or refracted by changes in air density. Earth's atmosphere contains air, water and dust molecules that cause light rays from the sun to change direction as they pass through slightly different densities of a...
Fifth Grader Spelling Progression Kids can build their vocabulary and spelling skills with this worksheet. Your child will learn the definitions for vocabulary words and use them in context. Encourage your fifth grader to grow his vocabulary with this word-focused worksheet. Kids will learn new words, then write them i...
Learning Guide: Fourth Grade In the Classroom Teachers will show students how to... - Learn more complex oral presentation skills (explaining and presenting stories, puns, riddles, anecdotes and plays); make oral presentations without notes. - Use the dictionary to determine word meanings and pronunciations; Use encycl...
The psychological occurrence we now call "the Stroop effect" was first described in 1935 by John Ridley Stroop (Stroop, J. R. (1935) -- Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 18, 643-622.). Why has the Stroop effect continued to fascinate psychologists? Part of the answe...
Objective: Chapter 1 Before Breakfast Fern is horrified to find her father plans to kill the runt of the recent litter of pigs, and she accuses him of being unjust. She does not think it is fair for the pig to die just because it is small. Her father, on the other hand, does not seem to have given any thought to whethe...
Uranus was discovered by the British astronomer William Herschel in 1781. Herschel originally planned to name the new planet Georgium Sidus, Latin for "George's Star" in honor of King George III. Luckily, fellow astronomer Johann Bode convinced Herschel to follow the tradition of naming planets in honor of mythological...
Too often test questions and assessment tasks are presented solely in written form, which may be a burden for poor readers and for children whose first language is not English. Such children might not be able to respond to the tasks in a way that shows their true level of mathematical knowledge or skills. Many alternat...
view a plan The popularity of dinosaurs is graphed in this lesson PreK, K, 1 Title – Dinosaur Bar Graph By – Brittany Page Primary Subject – Math Grade Level – Pre-K Student will be able to organize the information into categories from most liked to least liked. Students will be able to point to the dinosaur most liked...
How to Subtract Vectors You don’t come across vector subtraction very often in physics problems, but it does pop up. To subtract two vectors, you put their feet (or tails, the non-pointy parts) together; then draw the resultant vector, which is the difference of the two vectors, from the head of the vector you’re subtr...
June 19, 2014 | 8 In a small chamber deep in the Atapuerca mountains in northern Spain lies one of the most extraordinary paleontological discoveries of all time: a massive assemblage of fossils belonging to an extinct member of the human family. The site is known as the Sima de los Huesos, the “pit of bones.” And in i...
In Hiroshima, there are permanent shadows caused by the intensity of the nuclear blast when the bomb was dropped. Hiroshima was an event that left both the emotional shadows of tragedy and also permanent physical shadows on the landscape of Hiroshima, Japan. These shadows were created by the great force of the nuclear ...
Topic: Difference between XHTML,HTML,DHTML HTML is a Hyper Text Markup Language which is used to display the internet website contents on the internet browsers. This is the common language to develop the web site pages. DHTML is Dynamic HTML(DHTML) which will be used to display the dynamic web site pages. It is not a s...
It takes more than plate tectonics to cause an earthquake, according to geologist Ze'ev Reches of the University of Oklahoma in Norman. The gradual buildup of stress in a fault as plates collide or slide past each other is necessary, he acknowledges. But if nothing else were going on, all the pent-up energy could be re...
Seeking Life´s Imprint in Shifting Desert Sand Abigail Allwood investigates rocks to learn more about their formation processes and to spot signs of life. Click image for larger view. Image credit: Leslie Mullen A group of scientists are hunched over, their eyes intently scanning the jumble of rocks on the ground. Ever...
The latest images released from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express reveal a series of “pit-chains” on the flanks of one of the largest volcanoes in the solar system. Depending on their origin, they might be tempting targets in the search for microbial life on the Red Planet. The images, taken June 22, 2011,...
In the U.S., farms spread from the colonies westward along with the settlers. In cooler regions, wheat was often the crop of choice when lands were newly settled, leading to a "wheat frontier" that moved westward over the course of years. Also very common in the antebellum Midwest was farming corn while raising hogs, c...
Dig It Teaching Strategies Dig it Teaching Strategies include exposing students to related fractions concepts, essential questions, and tips for successful game play. Exposing Students to Related Concepts: Students can be exposed to fractions in a variety of contexts, and it’s important to emphasize their usefulness by...
If the Stone Age ended conclusively the moment the first human smelted copper from copper ore, then how do historians classify the thousands of years between that moment and the traditional beginning of the Bronze age? Stone age: 2.5 million years ago – 9000 BCE Golden age: Isaac Asimov speculated that gold was the “fi...
Few places in the country demonstrate the connection between landscape and people better than the tallgrass prairie of the Flint Hills. The hills of the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve and the surrounding area are shaped by the rocks that lie directly beneath the vegetation and soil— the same rocks which made culti...
The giant chunk of ice calved from the South Pole last year, and scientists have been doing their best to track the berg's movement. The frozen island, dubbed B31, is expected to be captured in the strong currents of the Southern Ocean, but tracking its movement will grow more difficult over the next six months as Anta...
The Narwhal Tusk Contemplate your own teeth for a second. We usually only think about them when there's something wrong -- a chip, a cavity, discoloration. But teeth themselves are incredibly durable, able to survive fire and outlast the rest of your body after death. Teeth are hard, which makes them useful for their m...
The Gibsons were hardly alone in their journey from black to white. Hundreds of families of color had gained their freedom in the colonial era because they had English mothers, and within a generation or two, they could claim to be white. Their claims were supported by law, which never drew the color line at "one drop"...
A chord formula is musical numbering system that gives us a way of describing a chord without referring to specific notes. This is done by enumerating the intervals that make up a chord. For example, a Major 7th chord is made up of four notes and three intervals. A chord formula spells out the harmonic structure using ...
|This article needs additional citations for verification. (August 2013)| |Legislatures by country| |Part of a series on| A legislator (or lawmaker) is a person who writes and passes laws, especially someone who is a member of a legislature. Legislators are usually politicians and are often elected by the people. Legis...
Evolution is full of chicken-and-egg scenarios, but one of the trickiest to solve is whether life existed before there was nucleic acid. Researchers have now provided evidence of primitive biochemistry occurring without phosphate – an essential component of the nucleic acid building blocks of our genetic chemistry – ad...
Neanderthals and humans coexisted for thousands of years, but the relationship between the two human species was always a bit dysfunctional. Theories vary on whether we just took them into our beds or cooked their children for dinner, but either way we still wind up looking like jerks. Most anthropologists believe that...
Air resistance, also called drag, acts upon a falling body by slowing the body down to the point where it stops accelerating, and it falls at a constant speed, known as the terminal velocity of a falling object. Air resistance depends on the cross-sectional area of the object, which is why the effect of air resistance ...
Genes are the blueprints for making the substances, called proteins, our bodies need to develop and work properly. Most genes come in pairs, one of which is inherited from the mother and the other from the father. A mutation is a change in a gene that prevents it from working properly. Mutations in genes are inherited ...
example broken line graph Best Results From Wikipedia Yahoo Answers Encyclopedia Youtube A line chart or line graph is a type of graph, which displays information as a series of data points connected by straight line segments. It is a basic type of chart common in many fields. It is an extension of a scatter graph, and...
Obesity in kids has reached epidemic proportions in the United States as the number of overweight children has doubled in the last two decades. According to the National Institutes of Health about 20 percent of children and adolescents are overweight. The increase is in all age, race and gender groups and can be traced...
The colourful graphs above show how the climate changed in the period from 65 to 25 thousand years ago when Earth was experiencing an ice age. A wealth of information on the dynamics of our climate is embedded in the curves, especially how the northern and southern hemisphere interact, and how fast climate can change. ...
The national effort made by black people and their supporters in the 1950s and 1960s to eliminate segregation and gain equal rights. The first large episode in the movement, a boycott of the city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, was touched off by the refusal of one black woman, Rosa Parks, to give up her seat on a bus to...
Summary: Can life travel from planet to planet? A theory called Panspermia says that meteorites could potentially act as miniature spaceships, carrying microorganism passengers. But a new study has found that photosynthetic life probably wouldn’t survive the journey. Can life travel from planet to planet? When a rocky ...
Endianness refers to the way that a computer processor or file format stores numbers. Big endian numbers are stored in such a way that the most significant digit appears first in the number as it is read from left to right. This is familiar to most people as it is the way that nubers are represented in most languages. ...
“Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.” – Grace Hopper In 1951 Grace Hopper developed the first English-language data-processing compiler, for the A-0 System (Algorithmic language version 0) language. Computers could then be programmed using written instructions, or in the case of A-0, transl...
The Bohr Model of the Atom Brief DescriptionA model proposed by Niels Bohr to support his hypothesis about electrons in a hydrogen atom. This is a model of the atomic structure in which electrons travel around the nucleus in well-defined orbits determined by quantum conditions. A transition from a higher orbit to a low...
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) Founded in 1900 in New York City, the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) was remarkably successful in forcing adoption of sanitary codes and safety regulations and achieving better pay during the first two decades of the 20th century. Comprising mos...
- Education and Science Right Brain Education Activities You Can Practice at Home... Take your child on an imaginary journey of the mind. Ask your child to relax and close his eyes. Talk him through a scenario - describe the things that he sees and ask him to picture them in his mind as if he were really there. Engage ...
Like all highly social mammals elephants have a well-developed system of communication that makes use of all of their senses – hearing, smell, vision and touch – including an exceptional ability to detect vibrations. Acoustic communication takes a look at sound production and hearing in elephants; chemical communicatio...
December 25, 2004 Modern Italy was unified in 1870 when the national government annexed Rome and the Papal States despite protests from Pope Pius IX. The new nation almost didn't survive, as Pius struggled to persuade other European countries to invade Italy and restore the papal lands. For the next six decades, popes ...
At stake: two free tickets to the All-Star Game. And all you have to do is guess the correct number of jelly beans in a jar at the Planet Toys store. One particularly smart boy has an idea: Why guess when you can estimate? He plays a game with his buddy as they head over to the store on the bus. With four people per ro...
The hip joint is the largest weight-bearing joint in the human body. It is also referred to as a ball and socket joint and is surrounded by muscles, ligaments, and tendons. The thigh bone or femur and the pelvis join to form the hip joint. Any injury or disease of the hip will adversely affect the joint's range of moti...
Also called parentheses (particularly in America). Brackets mainly separate information that isn’t necessary to the meaning of the rest of the sentence or can be used as an aside. - She finally told him (after taking five minutes to think) that she did not understand the question. If material in brackets ends a sentenc...
Modes of Sound Wave Propagation In air, sound travels by the compression and rarefaction of air molecules in the direction of travel. However, in solids, molecules can support vibrations in other directions, hence, a number of different types of sound waves are possible. Waves can be characterized in space by oscillato...
This discriptive essay is focused on a woman, who was an active member of the Montgomery Voters League which had been established to enable the black people to register for voting by helping them pass the literacy tests. In addition, Rosa Parks also participated in the NAACP and protested against segregation in America...
The Environment of the Earth in the Past The Earth had large oceans very early in its history. During this time the Earth should have been frozen because the sun was weak at that time. Because there was a large and vigorous ocean, the Earth must have had a large and vigorous atmosphere in place to keep the surface warm...
A SNP (pronounced “snip”) is a single nucleotide polymorphism to be exact. Ok, that doesn’t help at all, right? A basic overview on genetics is necessary to really understand SNPs. For simplicity, these are the key pieces: - Your genetic code is built with DNA. - The smallest building blocks of DNA are called nucleotid...
In 2013 Voyager 1 slipped into interstellar space, the space between stars. But what was a space probe doing twelve billion miles from home? The answer goes back to the early 1960s when competition in space was one front of the Cold War between the USA and the Soviet Union. Interplanetary missions – rocket science? Rou...
Mercury was long thought to be lacking volatile compounds that cause explosive volcanism. That view started to change when the MESSENGER spacecraft returned pictures of pyroclastic deposits — the telltale signature of volcanic explosions. Now more detailed data from MESSENGER shows that volcanoes exploded on Mercury fo...
Yellow fever is a mosquito born disease that is found throughout South America and sub-Saharan Africa. While the disease is actually more deadly than malaria, it has never been as widely a threat. In part this is because the first stages are not as severe as malaria’s and it’s usually the secondary effects that lead to...
The Hetoimasia (Gr. ἑτοιμασία, “preparation”), or Throne of Preparation, is one of the most widespread images in iconography, particularly in Orthodox Christianity. It very rarely dominates any composition it is part of, so the image and its significance can be overlooked. In this article, the image and its history is ...
You can attend the first session of any of our online or in-person GRE courses absolutely free. Ready to take the plunge? Check out our upcoming courses here. Think of an absolute value as a simple machine that looks like this: ||. You put a value into it, and the machine answers a single question for you: how far away...
consider both the social standing of the two groups and their ideas about politics Answers 1Add Yours The Federalists, both the most famous three who authored the Federalist papers and those in the political party that followed the Constitution, argued that the integrity of a central government required it to have stro...
A new study by scientists from Oregon State University and the Environmental Protection Agency showed -- much to the surprise of the researchers -- that soil clings tenaciously to the first precipitation after a dry summer, and holds it so tightly that it almost never mixes with other water. The finding is so significa...
The slave Trade Act of 1794 was a law passed by the United States Congress that limited American involvement in the trade of human cargo. This was the first of several Acts of Congress that eventually outlawed the importation of slaves to United States. The bill was introduced during the 3rd Congress that convened Dece...
Kind of Activity: To use a new medium as a means to understand the theatrical aspect of the work Common Core Standards: The teacher should begin by showing stills from two different productions of 12 Angry Men by two different theaters. Lead the students in an analysis of the visual elements: what looks the same? What ...
We believe that a child’s work is in their play and while preparing children for school we ensure opportunities that are provided are fun and based upon their own interests. Our children are active and social learners, literacy and Communication skills developing quickly as well as their independence. - Children start ...
You are here Studying “Old” Water Trapped Inside Earth Not only is the majority of Earth’s surface covered by water, but it is also found in abundance within Earth’s interior. There, water helps in processes like mantle convection, plate tectonics, and arc volcanism. However, in spite of these important roles, the dept...
Figure 4-1.Transmitter spectrum compared with receiver response. Any frequency, when modulated by another frequency, will produce a base frequency with sideband frequencies (sum and difference). In other words, the output of a pulsed radar will contain more than one frequency. The output frequency spectrum of the pulse...
Metric Vocabulary Word Search In this mathematics terminology worksheet, students identify and locate various terms related to the metric system and measurement. There are ten words located in the puzzle. 3 Views 3 Downloads Unit 3 Math Vocabulary Cards (Grade 5) Fifty-four flashcards make up a set to help reinforce ma...
- slide 1 of 2 Organize Speech about Self This speech lesson can be a standalone lesson where students introduce themselves to the class or it can be part of a larger autobiography unit. For this lesson, students will need to write a speech, prepare note cards and make and stuff a "me bag." Teachers Assign the Autobiog...
Nothing symbolizes “England” more than the Royal family, the House of Windsor. But in reality, the Windsor family is not English at all–it is German. How a German aristocrat came to be King of England and form a dynasty that would rule for 300 years (most recently under an assumed name), is a story of religious conflic...