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    it’s storming, and lightning strikes? Have you ever wonder why lightning strikes? Have you wonder what shape lightning takes? Lightning is an electrical current, but have you ever seen lightning in a shape of a sphere? It’s called ball lightning and it is extremely rare. To understand ball lightning, you must know the characteristics, the sightings, and the theories surrounding it. To understand ball lightning one must know the characteristics. People who have seen ball lightning say it’s smell is

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    What Are The Marfa Lights? Imagine standing outside in the desert of west texas, it's cold under the clear, inky, night sky. The cold, crisp wind blows in your face catching you off guard, sending a shiver down your back. You look down to zipper up your warm Aeropostale sweater to keep in the body heat. Your eyes adjust as your view shifts back to the desert plains. When suddenly, a burst of bright light, southeast of you catches your attention. It flickers, it splits apart, it glows, when out of

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    Lightning is a mystery element to many people. The definition of lightning is; the occurrence of a natural electrical discharge of very short duration and high voltage between a cloud and the ground or within a cloud, accompanied by a bright flash and typically also thunder. There are many different kinds of lightning that occur all over the world. Lightning is formed by electric charges in the sky, from positive charges to negative charges. Lightning can also be very dangerous if exposed or struck

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    hairspray and the lighter. He then managed to light the toilet paper on fire which caused the whole bathroom to catch on fire. The boy's mom ran into the bathroom and started to put out the fire and when it was out she found him in his room curled up in a ball holding his thumb because he had burned it. This little boy should have learned a valuable lesson that day. That lesson is that fire is nothing to mess with. Many people do not realize the risk of playing or not being careful with fire especially

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    clouds covered the sky above a lovely Victorian Manor; thunder crashed and shook the sturdy foundation as a young man ran through the Manor’s dark halls and down its many winding stairs, the only light guiding him came from the flash of constant lightning. He ran down and down until he finally reached his destination, a large wine cellar refurbished into a crude laboratory with a large pool to the side, many different wires, and pipes leading in and out adding mixtures and liquids of unknown origin

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    On October 21st, 2018, Maaz works late in his office, organizing papers and finishing up his work from earlier that day. A blanket of thunder and lightning covers the sky. Rain pours down heavily on the leaf covered ground. Maaz rushes to put away the chemicals he had used earlier that day to conduct experiments on the forensic evidence that was given to him days before. In the midst of his speedy work he knocked over one of the chemicals labeled “T.I. 3”, the glass container shatters as it hits

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    The Elgen Quotes

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    In the book Michael Vey Rise Of The Elgen, the main character Michael Vey has some sort of electrical powers that gives him the ability to be a human magnet, throw balls of lightning and he can shock people way more than you can shock someone by rubbing your feet against a carpet floor. But he's not the only one with these type of abilities. There are 23 other kids that have similar powers. Some (as in the ones I mention in the next paragraph)of the electric children hate this guy named Hatch because

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    Wrong move, she thought. "Since you had the first move before, I get this one! Electro Ball, Chinchou!" "What?! An Electric-type?!" It hit Ash, and he felt like an idiot. What else would the yellow mean? "Dodge it, Pidgeotto. Use Agility!" A streaking beam followed Pidgeotto as she easily dodged the cluster of volts hurled at her. Before the Electro Ball hit the ceiling, it burst like a firework. A stream of bolts came down, but Pidgeotto dodged each one. Awesome! I know

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    I Have An Avid Golfer

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    I have been an avid golfer, ever since I was five years old. I aspired to be like the profession ladies I would watch golf on TV. Before my eight grade year, I thought it would be a good idea to attend an LPGA event. At this age, it would be perfect, because I am young enough that I can get into these tournament for free with an adult, and I am old enough that I would know what to watch for when I am there. The only problem was, I had to pick a tournament that I could possibly be able to play

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    A Tale of Two Cities, a book written by Charles Dickens in 1859, describes the situation of France and the French Revolution. At the end of Chapter Six, Dr. Manette, Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, Sydney Carton, and Miss Pross are at a Tea Party. A turbulent storm occurs and incites an eerie mood within the characters. Charles Darnay starts telling a story about a paper he found. After telling the story, Dr. Manette begins to feel ill. Following this is a section which contains multiple literary

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