‘The Silver Sword’ is about a Polish family separated during the Second World War and trying to find each other again when the war is over. a simple enough story‚. This is a fictionalised but apparently based on fact story suitable for upper primary students. The story opens with Joseph Balicki‚ the father‚ escaping from a prison camp in the Polish mountains. He was the headmaster of a primary school in Warsaw until the Nazis arrested him in 1940 for turning a picture of Hitler to the wall. He
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Introduction Silver is a chemical element with atomic number 47 and symbol Ag. It is white‚ soft‚ mallable and ductile metal slightly harder than gold. Silver is extremely flexible‚ this means that it can be converted into both flat sheets and electrical wire. This makes silver is an ideal metal for all kinds of industrial use. Silver occurs in lead‚ Zinc and copper ore deposits. Lead ore is the main source of Silver. In fact‚ 75% of the resources in the world are found in association with other
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Tokugawa Japan and Spanish colonial America led the world in silver production from 1500 to 1750. The primary flow of silver was from Japan to China and from the Americas to Europe. The documents explain the negative‚ bias and positive economic effects of the global flow of silver from the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century. Documents 2‚ 5 and 3 all deal with the negative effects of the silver flow. Antonio Vazquez de Espinosa‚ a Spanish priest‚ states that more than 3‚000
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Silver Ships Facilities Silver Ships is located on 16 acres in Theodore‚ Alabama just South of Mobile on Bellingrath Road. After moving into a 15‚000 square foot building in 1996‚ they soon after expanded a second time. Since then‚ they have added over 12‚000 square feet of additional production space and they have built additional office spaces. All aspects of the vessel construction‚ from the custom design to the final assembly‚ are conducted in an enclosed production facilities and the
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"The Silver Mine" the story is about this group of people who find a mountain that has silver in it. They end up taking some of the silver to a mineralogist to see the value of the mineral and they find out that it is silver. Later some of the men end up dying because all the money is corrupting them. "The Silver Mine" is by‚ Selma Lagerlof who has won the Nobel Prize as the first women ever to receive the prize. An abundance of money that you have not earned can corrupt you. First of all this
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1926-1928 no one would imagine this man would immigrate to Taxco and have a big impact on silver. Spratling played a big role in development‚ migration‚ and folk Mexican culture. At the time his work may not have seemed like a big deal but its influenced Mexican culture enough to be proudly displayed in the Mexican Cultural Institute 16th St mansion. The name of the event I chose to attend is “ Silver on Silver‚ William Spratling an American in Taxco” exhibit‚ where they displayed pieces created by
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such as gold and silver. Silver Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are traded in the stock market providing a non traditional investor of silver an easy way to gain exposure without having to purchase bullions of the commodity. The first silver ETF arrived on the scene in 2006—in the form of the iShares Silver Trust‚ managed by Barclays Global Investors. Today‚ the ETF has over $13 billion in assets and has returned 25.17% in average annualized returns since inception. Not only iShare Silver Trust‚ the spot
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the mid sixteenth century a silver mine located at Potosi‚ South America was formed. This silver mine was one of the few major silver mines in the world‚ the others located in Northern Central America and Southern Japan. This certain mine was known for its distinctive rich black flint. Extensive excavation required more than three-thousand Indians to work away with picks and hammers to break up the ore and bring it up to the surface. Just after refining the ore‚ the silver is shipped to Spain then from
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rise in silver production was beneficial to the middle-men who made the trade possible‚ but eventually weakened the states that supplied and likewise received silver. It was fairly common believe in China that with arrival of large amounts of silver would bring prosperity; but with such an extreme amount of this precious metal coming into one are caused problems. The Ming Dynasty declared that all taxes must be payed in silver. This created great disruption in the economy since silver coins were
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The Silver Donkey‚ a tale of a young English soldier who fled the chaos of the first world war to be founded by two French sister‚ Marcelle and Coco. Lieutenant Shepard is temporarily blind and has walked away from the war as he found it too hard to bear. The two sisters hide and feed the soldier and in return of their kindness‚ he tells the sister marvellous tales‚ each story connected to the keepsake he carries in his pocket: a perfect tiny silver donkey. The lieutenant‚ himself longs to cross
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