Balcony Tickets for the Night Abraham Lincoln was Assassinated514
10/11/2023 (#20 this year)
There is going to be a small gap1 in my English News because I am going to Canada withthe JHS 3rd grade. My next English news will be on November 1 st. I’m sure we will havea wonderful time in Canada. Does your body ache2 today because of the sports festival
yesterday? You all ran and played very hard. It was fun to watch. I only ran a very shortdistance for the relay, but my body aches. Ha ha. I asked my wife why and she said it isbecause I am an old man. Haha. Everyone looked like they were having fun. I thinkhaving fun is far more important than winning or losing. Having fun with your friends
and working with other people to do something is so important.
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Last week’s answer

Something you didn’t know about Abraham Lincoln:
1. Abraham Lincoln was 193 cm tall. That makes him the tallest president ever. He used
to wear very tall hats to make himself look even taller.
2. Lincoln was the first president to be assassinated3.
3. He held a patent4. It was for a device5 to lift boats over obstructions 6 in the water.
4. Lincoln is the most-written about person in American history. There are over 18,000
books about him.
5. Lincoln was a champion wrestler when he was younger.
6. He was the first president of the Republican 7 party because it had only just started.
7. He loved animals and had many pets.

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was shot byJohn Wilkes Booth at 10:25 pm on April 14th 1865. Lincoln was shot in thehead, but he didn’t die straight away. He was carried to a nearby house andput on the bed. Lincoln was so tall that he had to be placed on the bed
diagonally8. Lincoln died at 7.22 am on April 15th. He was 56 years old. He looks
much older in all of the photos taken of him, but he was actually quite young.
Lincoln was shot at a theater. He had gone to see a play called “OurAmerican Cousin” at Ford’s Theater. The North was winning the American Civil
War9 and John Wilkes Booth and his supporters wanted to kill Lincoln to give
the South a chance to fight back. It didn’t work. When Lincoln was shot, hewas in a box overlooking the stage. Last week, two tickets for the balcony,
directly opposite Lincoln’s box were sold at auction. They were sold for$262,500! The people who owned those tickets and sat in those seats would
have been able to see the entire assassination. Maybe they kept the tickets toremind themselves. We will never know why they kept them. However, 158
years later, thetickets are still in
perfect condition
and they wentunderthehammer10
lastweek. They arevery rare and thereis only one otherticket from thatshow left. Thatticket is owned byHarvard University.
It is wonderful toown a piece ofhistory, but that is a
lot of money.
1.gap 間隔 2.ache 筋肉痛 3.assassinate 暗殺する 4.patent 特許 5.device 機械
6.obstruction 障害 7.Republican party 共和党 8.diagonally 斜め 9.American Civil War ア
メリカ南北戦争 10.go under the hammer 競売にかけられるWorld record
I do a lot of records about the biggest and the heaviest thing. Here are a few records
about the smallest thing. The world’s smallest newspaper is 18 x 25 mm and it weighs
1 gram. It is an exact copy of a real newspaper with the same number of pages. Thesmallest spoon ever made is 4.5 mm long. It is smaller than an ant. Wait! These records
get smaller! The smallest sculpture1 of a human is 80 x 100 micrometers. How small isthat? 1 mm is 1000 micrometers! And here is the winner, in my opinion. The smallest
ever movie is 45 nanometers by 25 nanometers. How big is that? 1 mm is 1,000,000nanometers. The movie is 60 seconds long and it is made using molecules 2 of carbon
monoxide3. It is a stop motion movie. Scientists placed the atoms 4, took a photo, thenmoved the atoms and took the next photo. If you want to watch it, YouTube: A Boy andHis Atom.

Once you face your fear, nothing isever as hard as you think.

– Olivia Newton-John

One thing we can do to help the environment#6 Use only one eco-bag
I have stopped using plastic shopping bags as much as I can. Sometimes I
have to, but I always try not to. I have two eco-bags that I use instead5.
One of them has the Hokusei logo on it and is perfect for small shopping
items. The other is a little bit larger. My wife has a selection of eco-bags
as well, which she uses at different shops. Shops in Japan stopped givingout free plastic bags on July 1st, 2020. The number of plastic bags used has
dropped significantly 6. The bags are not expensive, but having to pay
makes people think before they get one. Many people, if they can avoid 7
it, don’t use plastic bags. These days, most of us use eco-bags. Eco-bags
are obviously far better than plastic shopping bags, but they are not theperfect solution. Many eco-bags are still made out of plastic. Also, because
they have to be very durable8, they are made out much thicker plastic thanstore bags. Eco-bags are also not very expensive. A lot of shops subsidize9
the bags to persuade10 people to use them and they have the store nameon the side, so they are a form of advertising. However, because the bags
are cheap, people don’t feel too bad about throwing them away. So, eventhough they are better than plastic carrier bags, they can be bad if we justuse them a few times and throw them away. We should buy one bag,preferably11 not one made of plastic, and use it for as many years as
possible.

1. 1.sculpture 彫刻 2.molecule 分子 3.carbon monoxide 一酸化炭素 4.atom 原子
5.instead～の代わりに 6.significantly かなり 7.avoid 避ける 8.durable 丈夫
9.subsidize 助成する 10.persuade 納得さえる 11.preferably できれば