Thursday Thirteen

13 things I don't remember knowing (don't laugh at me!) before I started homeschooling my children:

1. The dot in the middle of a Hidu woman's forehead is called a bindi.
2. The bossom-bearing necklines of the Baroque and Renaissance were originally designed to facilitate nursing.
   
3. An Egyptian casket is called a sarcophagus.
4. Our sun is not the biggest star in the Universe.
5. The tides are a reaction of our oceans to the gravitational pull of the moon.
6. Context alone doesn't tell you all about the meaning of any given word.
7. You really shouldn't end a sentence with: with, of, be.
8. To say, "none," is to actually say, "not one," which is why we should say, "none is," rather than, "none are."
9. The Civil War was not waged over slavery, but rather to hold the Union together as the South threatened to suceed over issues stemming from slavery.
10. Our country interned Japanese Americans during WWII.
11. Wisdom is to be preferred over knowledge.
12. Kindness is to be preferred over intelligence.
13. Congregations used to read shape notes to sing hymns of worship.

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