Mrs. Wilson

Thank you @SraCory ! #GoAtoms

@OasisPlanet_ @NoelGallagher And yet, I’ve heard of Phil Collins, but not Noel Gallagher

“Just because you sell lots of records it doesn't mean to say you're any good. Look at Phil Collins.” ― Noel Gallagher

@dirtymike3638 @NFL_DovKleiman Ah yes, he’s a victim. Can’t seem to let that one go and just be happy for a fellow black man, can ya?

@NFL_DovKleiman They seen the dollar signs that would come along with adopting a big buck. This was a business decision.

Inspiring: Jahmyr Gibbs was adopted by Grey and Dusty Rose at 15 due to difficult family situations. Despite Gibbs facing many hardships throughout his early childhood, he is now one of the biggest stars in the NFL. Hats off to his adopted parents and grandmother. ❤️👏

@SidneyPowellQ Heck yes! Dismantle the very thing that stunted America’s growth

Question for MAGA from a liberal woman. "Hi, I'm just wondering if you guys who voted for Trump — did you vote for the Department of Education to be dismantled? Because that's what he's doing right now. MAGA?

@NASAhistory @nasalangley How many people here blew up the map? Just me?

"I knew that we were going to go to the Moon when I was 10 years old. That was in 1937." Dottie Lee began work at @NASALangley in 1948 as a human computer. Fast forward 2 decades and she was helping design the space shuttle, becoming its Subsystems Manager of Aerothermodynamics.

@Eaglesbaby86 @histories_arch Let me guess: you were born a racist and you’ll die a racist

@histories_arch Yt folks always finding stuff that isn't lost and then claiming it as their own. We have a word for that. Thievery.

The Rosetta Stone, discovered in July 1799 by French officer Pierre-Francois Bouchard during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt, became the key that unlocked nearly 1,400 years of lost language. The stone is a granodiorite slab inscribed with the same decree in three scripts: ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs at the top, Demotic script in the middle, and Greek at the bottom. The decree itself dates to 196 BC, issued by Egyptian priests honoring the young Pharaoh Ptolemy V. Because ancient Greek was well known to European scholars, the Greek text provided the critical starting point for decipherment. Stephen Weston delivered the first English translation of the Greek text at London's Society of Antiquaries in April 1802, and Hubert-Pascal Ameilhon published the first printed translation in 1803. The real breakthrough began with the middle Demotic text, when scholars Johan David Åkerblad and Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy identified five proper names by cross-referencing them with their Greek equivalents. Åkerblad correctly identified 29 phonetic characters from those names, proving the Demotic script was at least partially alphabetical. The hieroglyphic text proved far more difficult, as scholars had long assumed hieroglyphs were purely symbolic rather than phonetic. Thomas Young made a decisive advance in 1814 when he identified the phonetic characters spelling "Ptolemaios" inside a cartouche in the hieroglyphic text. Young also noticed up to 80 structural similarities between the hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts, disproving the long-held belief that the two were entirely unrelated systems. Jean-Francois Champollion built directly on Young's work, and in 1822 identified the phonetic characters spelling "Kleopatra" by studying the Philae obelisk, which contained both Greek and hieroglyphic inscriptions. Armed with two confirmed royal names, Champollion rapidly assembled a phonetic alphabet for hieroglyphs and announced his findings on September 27, 1822, in a landmark lecture in Paris. He confirmed his system the following year by identifying the cartouche names of Ramesses and Thutmose at Abu Simbel, proving phonetic hieroglyphs applied to Egyptian names as well, not just foreign ones. The full decipherment unlocked not just one inscription but an entire civilization's written record, silent for over a millennium. Since 1802, the stone has remained on near-continuous public display at the British Museum, where it is the single most visited object in the collection. Egypt has repeatedly requested its return, arguing the stone is central to Egyptian cultural identity, but the British Museum has so far declined to repatriate it. The decipherment of the Rosetta Stone fundamentally transformed the study of ancient Egypt, converting a civilization that had been historically mute for over a thousand years into one of the most documented cultures in human history. Before Champollion's breakthrough, Egyptian temples, tombs, and monuments were filled with symbols no living person could read, leaving historians to rely almost entirely on secondhand accounts from Greek and Roman writers. Once the phonetic structure of hieroglyphs was understood, scholars gained direct access to religious texts, administrative records, royal proclamations, and literature stretching back thousands of years. The discovery also established a methodological template for deciphering other lost scripts, and the phrase "Rosetta Stone" entered the broader language as a universal metaphor for any foundational key that unlocks a larger system of knowledge. #archaeohistories

Beautiful graduation at Annandale High School #FCPSgrad22 #ahs #Classof2022 #teacher

Sometimes, the view outside your work window is mesmerizing

Day 7- I was nominated by @AtomicMsH Every day I will post a day in the life of an educator without explanation & nominate someone else to take the challenge, 7 days, 7 pictures.

@TheRealMrsKlein @PearDeck @scherriead If I could “like” this a hundred times, I would.

Hey @PearDeck! @scherriead and I were just wondering if 2 teachers could have access to the teacher dashboard during a presentation? We were talking about how helpful that would be for team-taught classes.

A team teacher, 2 screens, multiple tabs, and many students...it doesn’t get any better than this (under the circumstances) @AtomicTeacha @ShawnDeRose @AtomsPTSA @AnnandaleAtoms @bmaldenderfer @TheRealMrsKlein @SraCory @fcpsnews #1stdayofschool #virtualclassroom #teamteaching

@davidaxelrod Excellent convention. I watched them both. RNC really did a good job.

They’ve had a good convention for their purposes but this is a pretty mediocre speech, poorly delivered.

@LauraF_SBL @DonnaHiggins64 @aaron26_2 @PaulaMeoli @DrDiSalvo Good luck with wherever your next adventure takes you! We will miss you here @AtomsLeadership

Goodbyes are never easy especially when you work with some amazing people. Miss you already @PaulaMeoli & @DrDiSalvo (the real Doctor). Luv u ladies!!!

@MeehanEDU You have the same chance of surviving a car crash (97%) as you do of recovering from COVID19. I love your educational advice, but encouraging people to hibernate? No thanks. #Openresponsibly

Grateful that the gym waived membership fees for the past three months. But it’s just irresponsible to go out to crowded places where you’re SUPPOSED to breathe deep and get sweaty before there’s a vaccine available. Canceled. Next. Stay home. Stay safe. #COVID__19

@MeehanEDU Sadly, I’ve made the jump to audio books almost exclusively. Since I borrow them all, not much to organize. The few books I kept after the great pandemic purge of 2020 can all fit on one shelf, and I ordered them from 10 out 5 stars to 5 out of 5 stars.

How do you organize your bookshelves at home? 📚Size? 🔵 Color? 🧠 Subject? 🧵 Series? 📝 Author? 📆 Date of purchase? Suggestions welcome in the thread below!

@TheRealMrsKlein @Pinterest “The greatest teacher, failure is.” I actually remember that line from the movie waaaaaay back in the day. So many great quotes to choose from though. Good luck and you do nice stitch work!

Fun fact: I learned to cross stitch from my mom and grandma when I was young and pick it back up from time to time. Thank goodness for @Pinterest for patterns and ideas! #babyyoda #TheMandalorian Now the question is what words/phrase to put with it, if any 🤔 ideas?! #thinkingiam

@davidaxelrod @RepAdamSchiff @RepAdamSchiff could have said anything (even a nursery rhyme) and the Ds would have loved it and the Rs would have hated it. That’s quintessential politics. The question is, how did it make YOU feel?

I’ve heard some Rs say they find @RepAdamSchiff “irritating.” I suspect it is because he has made the case so powerfully.

We’ve got spirit, yes we do! We’ve got spirit, dressed in blue! #teamteachers #english12 @AnnandaleAtoms @AtomicTeacha @AtomsLeadership #spiritday

Love it when the students work together to succeed! #POG #Portraitofagraduate @AtomicTeacha @MeehanEDU @SraCory @fcpsnews @AtomsLeadership

@MsDuranDuranAHS Talking to my hubby who always makes me laugh.

Teacher friends—what’s your favorite way to reset or recharge after you’ve had a bad day?

👋 @CSEPreps educators unite!!