Calculus in Washington
Welcome to Ford’s Theatre
Diagram of Ford's Theatre
The President was shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865 during a
performance of Our American Cousin. Booth shot Lincoln in the head in the
Presidential box, then leapt from the box to the stage, twelve feet below
(breaking his ankle in the process). He crossed the stage and exited through a
rear door to an alley behind the theater.
Sketch of Ford's Theatre as it was at time of assassination
"Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply
made me the instrument of his punishment"
FREAKY!
John Wilkes Booth
• John Wilkes Booth was born on a farm near Bel Air,
Maryland, about 25 miles from Baltimore. His birth
date was May 10, 1838. He was the 9th of 10 children
of Junius Booth and Mary Ann Holmes. John's
parents were British and had moved to the United
States in 1821. In addition to the farm at Bel Air
(where the Booth family had slaves), the family also
owned a home on North Exeter Street in Baltimore
where the colder months of the year were spent.
Junius was one of the most famous actors on the
American stage although he was an eccentric
personality who had problems with alcohol and
spells of madness
Gravity Recovery and Climate
Experiment
GRACE
• Twin satellites in
formation flying
• Variation in distance
of satellites measured
• Detects variance in
earth’s gravitational
field- over land, sea,
and time
Mission: to map the geoid
Satellites’ will be pulled by mass on earth, causing
the “Tom and Jerry” effect. Measurement will map
unprecented accuracy of gravitational field.
• Use info for hydrologic cycle
• Water exchange data compared on ground and in air.
Ice
sheets,
sea level,
ocean
currents
Remote Sensing
Satellites, such as LANDSAT-7, take pics of earth. Then
used with other agencies to analyze data for practical
benefits
-weather forecasting, natural disasters, resource
management, environmental assesment.
Rhode Island
• Recognize this picture? I do, because I saw it all time
when I interned at National Geographic.
Neil at National Geographic
• Specifically, I worked in the .com section, and within that section
I worked primarily on the education splashpage, or the general
education link page. My job was to look through the NG site
and pull together various pages into a single page, preferably all
the pages would have a common theme.
• Working in .com, I obviously used the computer and the internet
a great deal, in fact that's all I did all day. I even had to learn a
smattering of html in order to program the splashpage into the
final form. However, the most grueling task that I had was
working in Photoshop. For every splashpage, I had to find,
capture, and finalize, two pictures. To finalize a captured image,
I had to play with many of the different features, which were
altering the image to highlight certain things.
• Furthermore, I also worked on National Geographic's first
feature film, K-19. I created the metatags for the NG site.
Metatags are the words that search engines run through and
use to pull up sites.
YAY!
• Can you guess what the weather will be
tomorrow? Next week? Or even next year?
• I can! I interned at the National Weather
Service within the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration!
NWS
• Weather is forecast using data from charts
and maps that show atmospheric variables
such as wind, temperature, pressure, and
precipitation.
• Meterologists and Climatologists then use
this data to analyze and predict both long
and short term weather conditions, often
using math and computers!
Wind Vectors
• These wind vectors may look familiar.
Meteorologists use the information to
forecast wind direction and rotation patterns
throughout the United States.
The End!