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Every four years we have an extra day in February, but the question is why? The reasoning goes back as far as the time of the Roman Empire.

Why is Every Year Not Leap Year?

Ramya Raja, Staff Writer May 15, 2017

Every four years, the calendar has an extra day added to it and the world then has twenty-nine days in February rather than only twenty-eight. But the question is: why does the calendar have just one leap...

Hans woke up from his coma to find a world radically changed from the one he left in 1940.  Photo Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbNEeAAiIKk

Seven Decades

Jack Scott, Staff Writer March 1, 2017

On a dreary afternoon in New York City in mid-April 2016, a man’s eyes opened for the first time in 76 years. The light of the hospital room was, while dim to others, nearly blinding to a man who had...

North Forsyth junior, Noah Smith, regards the LGBT community with respect and high praise, addressing the importance of acknowledging how the LGBT community sought reform. “I think that our history is us dying,” Noah says earnestly. “After a while, everyone said, ‘All right, fine,’ but there’s still the discrimination and hatred. I think history is important for every community.”

Kicking, Clawing, Fighting: A Brief History of the LGBT Community

Ashton Bruce, Staff Writer November 2, 2016

“In the mid-nineteenth century, heterosexuality and homosexuality are created.” The words, coined by journalist Károly Mária Kertbeny, were written in chicken-scratch writing in a letter mailed...

Vols Vanquish Dawgs

Vols Vanquish Dawgs

Kristin Iler, Sports Editor October 11, 2016

On Oct. 1, 2016, the unbelievable happened at our very own Sanford Stadium in Athens, Georgia where the Bulldogs played the Tennessee Volunteers. It was a close game, but ultimately ended in defeat for...

An aikido practitioner throws his counterpart during his test to rise in “belts”.  Aikido,

like Karate, is one of the martial arts to have emerged from the older fighting schools of Japan.  

(Used with permission from the Butoku of North Georgia Facebook page)

The Spirit Behind Japanese Martial Arts

Bim Peacock, Literature Editor March 8, 2016

A flow of tradition has opened wide across the ocean between Japan and America. Since the time of the Shogunate’s fall in World War II, their foods, their stories, their art, countless things have...

There are many events around Atlanta that commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Exciting Ways to Spend MLK Day

Leilani Gibbons, Staff Writer January 15, 2016

This coming Monday, January 18, is Martin Luther King Jr. day. This is a day to celebrate the life of the famous civil rights activist Martin Luther King, who is known for his moving speeches, his nonviolent...

There is an American Ninja Warrior course set up for anyone to try and test their strength. People train for years to participate in the televised event; most competitors begin in small gym courses practicing the same type of obstacles on the real course.

First American Ninja Warrior Crowned

Julie Day, Staff Writer November 30, 2015

American ninja warrior is a fitness based obstacle course that originated in Japan. The American adaptation is less rigorous than that of its Japanese brother, but still challenges anyone who can make...

One of the astounding minarets rises from the Blue Mosque, located in Istanbul, Turkey.  These works of architecture show the remnants of the beauty and innovation of the Islamic nation.

What Once Was a Diamond

Bim Peacock, Staff Writer May 12, 2015

Before the days when religion ruled mankind, before the days when it would even bother to kill for such a petty thing, a proud civilization rose from the sands of the east that would witness the world...

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a tragic event that cost many lives. The men that lost their lives left families behind, but those that survived came home to share their stories, most similar to this one. President Roosevelt said that December 7th, 1941 would be “a date which will live in infamy.”

A First-Hand Account of the Attack on Pearl Harbor

Raicheal Havins, News/Advertisement Editor May 7, 2015

My great uncle, Harvey Linfille Havins, was at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He was a Seaman 1st Class on the USS Arizona. His battle station was below where the oil leak is now.  There is not much...

In November of 2017, The Museum of the Bible will open in D.C. It will be located just three blocks from the Capitol building and two blocks from the National Mall. The museum will contain Steve Green’s personal bible artifact collection.

The Museum of the Bible to Open in D.C.

Daniel Snodgrass, Staff Writer April 24, 2015

Washington D.C. is going to be home to a new museum: The Museum of the Bible. The nonprofit museum is expected to open in November 2017, and be placed just two blocks south of the National Mall. It will...

Credit to http://www.iflscience.com/ for the picture. The fossil is now being run through multiple tests to reveal more details about exactly what might have happened with the tectonic plates.

17 million Year Old Fossil Explains African Uplift

Amanda Lewsader, Staff writer April 3, 2015

If anyone has taken the biology course at North Forsyth High School, then they would have learned about the Geologic Time Scale, index fossils, and how scientists date fossils or rocks: Radiometric or...

Humanity was born to change the world with every step of their earth shaking feet, yet witnessing the fear and weakness of today’s culture truly poses the question, “What happened?”  People were once unstoppable machines of change, and this article shows the some of finest figures of history that stand and show the unrelenting personality of the human spirit.

Those That Define Humanity

Bim Peacock, Photo Editor March 12, 2015

Of all the issues complained about in this modern day in age, the pettiest one by far, is the fact that people do complain.  The point is well understood: people have struggles here and there of various...

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