Speech prompt: which of the following factors do you feel was
responsible for the hysteria surrounding the salem witch trials?
1- the threat of indian attacks (increases fear and
anxiety)
2- the lack of sunlight during the winter months (has a
negative psychological effect).
3- group hysteria phenomenon (group pressure in an
atmosphere of superstition and fear).

isaac newton first proposed that earth was not perfectly round. instead, he suggested it was an oblate spheroid—a sphere that is squashed at its poles and swollen at the equator.

the idea of the earth being a flat disc is also inconsistent with the fact that a given lunar eclipse is only visible from half of the earth at a time. the only shape that casts a round shadow no matter which direction it is pointed is a sphere, and the ancient greeks deduced that this must mean the earth is spherical.

b. the 200th birthday of the united states

paper money known as continental currency, or continentals.