Miscellaneous

Fantastic Discovery!!!

The largest prime yet was discovered on the 15th of December 2005. The number in question, 2^30,402,457-1.

For full details go to maths.org

Blackburn Under 12 Team Photo 2005

team photo

Family Trip to Qld

The holiday is well and truly over now. But we'll keep these photos available for a while longer.

• Rebecca and David getting ready for a wild ride on The Claw.
• The Claw wind up.
• The Claw takes off.
• Rebecca and David with a crocodile at Green Island.
• Sharon, David and Rebecca getting ready to snorkel.
• Snorkelling about to start.
• Snorkelling underway.
• David and Rebecca at the lagoon.
• David in the pool.
• David and Rebecca again.
• David and Rebecca Kuranda.

Featured Site

• The featured site today is dedicated to RATS!!!. Oh well, each to their own.
• We have a couple of featured sites today. They both summarise the battles from World War One on the Western Front. Both use animated maps to illustrate the story - a great overview and introduction for everyone.
  richthofen.com
  bbc.com
• The USS Indianapolis sank on 30th July 1945 in the worst disaster in US Naval history. And they didn't even know it was missing. About 300 went down with the ship; 316 survived; and about 600 perished in the shark infested waters.
• Spectacular images from above at Earth From The Air.
• "I realized that she was the same age as me, and I realized that she was executed the same year I started working for Hitler (Traudl Junge)..... Sophie Scholl was a member of The White Rose.