Hi Miguel, yes I do like this article. I had read about it on YahooNews but thanks for sharing for those that had not seen it. As amazing as this was, I still fear for the majority of young people, who don't have the proper guidance to teach them to concentrate on learning and also those that just don't have the mental capacity.

Hope you're having a great weekend. :)

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Hi Evelyn and friends,

I guess you will like this article. It's about a 13-year old boy who got the Metropolitan Museum to recognize he was right... and they were wrong!

Hugs,

Miguel

13-year-old finds mistake in Metropolitan Museum of Art map
By Eric Pfeiffer | The Sideshow - 19 hours ago

13-year-old finds mistake at art exhibit A seventh-grader notices something odd about a map displayed at New York City's prestigious museum. The error

New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) is one of the world's premier destinations for artistic and historical exhibitions. But this epicenter of worldly culture is not above admitting the occasional mistake. Even when the correction comes from one curious 13-year-old boy.

The Hartford Courant reports that 13-year-old Benjamin Lerman Coady found an error in the Met's Byzantine Gallery during a recent visit. The seventh-grader is a fledgling history buff who recently studied the Byzantine Empire in school.

While checking some of the dates on the map, Coady noticed that sections featuring Spain and Africa were missing.

Before leaving the museum, Coady attempted to inform the museum that the map was inaccurate."The front desk didn't believe me," he told the paper. "I'm only a kid."

However, Coady received an email from the museum's senior vice president for external affairs, notifying him that his request was being forwarded to the museum's medieval affairs department for further review.

A few months later, Helen Evans, the Met's curator for Byzantine art, sent Coady an email: "You are, of course, correct about the boundaries of the Byzantine Empire under Justinian," she wrote.

Evans even invited Coady back to the museum to meet with her in person. She says the Met is working on updating the map but isn't sure when a new, more accurate rendition can be put on display.

So, what lesson did Coady take from his experience? "If you have a question, always ask it," he told the paper. "Always take chances."

Miguel, this is a wonderful story and Piko-chan is fortunate to have an owner that cared enough to teach him this.

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Hi again, Evelyn and friends,

Here is another short article, this one about a most special parakeet... I just received it with my mail.

Lost Parakeet Tells Police Its Address

• by Kristina Chew
• May 3, 2012

Talk is definitely not cheap to the owner of Piko-chan, a parakeet from the city of Sagamihara, west of Tokyo. On Sunday morning, the male bird flew away from its owner’s home and took up a perch on the shoulder of a guest at a nearby hotel. The bird was brought to the police and on Tuesday evening it talked,saying the names of the city and district of its owner’s house — and then noting the very block and street number.

With that kind of information, police were able to return the bird to its owner, a 64-year-old woman. She had previously lost another parakeet and was determined that the same would not happen with her current pet. The bird was also able to reveal its name to the police as it kept saying “you’re pretty, Piko-chan.”

Certainly teaching a pet to talk beats putting a tag or other form of ID on him or her!

Mythology and folktales are full of stories of animals talking, from the spider Anansi (among the Ashanti in Ghana) to Coyote and Raven (in Native American tales). At the end of Book 17 of the ancient Greek poet Homer’s Iliad, Xanthos, the horse of the hero Achilles, speaks. The horse tells Achilles that, like his friend Patroklos, he will be killed by a god, an eerie message that seems all the more powerful because of who, Xanthos, is uttering it. As with Piko-chan to the Sagamihara police, when animals speak, we’re called to listen.

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“Every person has the power to make others happy.
Some do it simply by entering a room --
others by leaving the room.
Some individuals leave trails of gloom;
others, trails of joy.
Some leave trails of hate and bitterness;
others, trails of love and harmony.
Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism;
others trails of faith and optimism.
Some leave trails of criticism and resignation;
others trails of gratitude and hope.
What kind of trails do you leave?”

William Arthur Ward

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Hi again, Evelyn and friends,

Here is another short article, this one about a most special parakeet... I just received it with my mail.

Lost Parakeet Tells Police Its Address

• by Kristina Chew
• May 3, 2012

Talk is definitely not cheap to the owner of Piko-chan, a parakeet from the city of Sagamihara, west of Tokyo. On Sunday morning, the male bird flew away from its owner’s home and took up a perch on the shoulder of a guest at a nearby hotel. The bird was brought to the police and on Tuesday evening it talked,saying the names of the city and district of its owner’s house — and then noting the very block and street number.

With that kind of information, police were able to return the bird to its owner, a 64-year-old woman. She had previously lost another parakeet and was determined that the same would not happen with her current pet. The bird was also able to reveal its name to the police as it kept saying “you’re pretty, Piko-chan.”

Certainly teaching a pet to talk beats putting a tag or other form of ID on him or her!

Mythology and folktales are full of stories of animals talking, from the spider Anansi (among the Ashanti in Ghana) to Coyote and Raven (in Native American tales). At the end of Book 17 of the ancient Greek poet Homer’s Iliad, Xanthos, the horse of the hero Achilles, speaks. The horse tells Achilles that, like his friend Patroklos, he will be killed by a god, an eerie message that seems all the more powerful because of who, Xanthos, is uttering it. As with Piko-chan to the Sagamihara police, when animals speak, we’re called to listen.

Related Care2 Coverage

Sparrows Tweet Louder To Be Heard In Noisy Cities

Over 500 Pelicans Found Dead in Peru: What Happened?

Communication Towers Kill Nearly 7 Million Birds a Year

Read more: animal communication, bird, bird talk, parakeet, toyko

Photo by TANAKA Juuyoh (田中十洋)

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/lost-parakeet-tells-polices-its-address.html#ixzz1tvEzaQEa