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Newspaper Knowledge Choose 10 newspaper display ads and photographs. Figure out the perimeter and area of each of them.

Did You Know? SHREDDING While having paper in our lives is important, it is also very important that we shred certain papers. Taking the proper steps to do so keeps information about our lives private. If paper with important information is just thrown in a Dumpster, it legally becomes fair game to anyone who finds it. This is why we should shred all important documents. What to shred? • Birth certificate copies • ATM receipts • Bank statements • Voided checks • Report cards • Bills Anything that has a signature on it such as a medical record, Social Security number or account numbers.

Early Chinese Paper

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Since the invention of writing, people had been trying to come up with something easier to write on than papyrus or parchment, and also something easier and cheaper to make. But it took 3,000 years to come up with paper! Paper seems to have been invented around 100 BC in China. In 105 AD, under the Han Dynasty emperor Ho-Ti, a government official in China named Ts'ai Lun was the first to start a paper-making industry. Ts'ai Lun seems to have made his paper by mixing finely chopped mulberry bark and hemp rags with water, mashing it flat, and then pressing out the water and letting it dry in the sun. He may have based his idea on bark cloth, which was very common in China and also made from mulberry bark. Ts'ai Lun's paper was a big success, and began to be used all over China. Even after people in China began to use paper, it took another thousand years before people were using paper all over Eurasia. By the 400s AD, people in India were also making paper. After a little more than 500 years, people in the Abbasid Caliphate began to use paper. There was a big battle in 751 AD in Samarkand, where the Chinese and the Arabs were fighting for control. The Arabs captured some Chinese men. Some of these Chinese men knew how to make paper, and they explained it to the Arabs as the price of their freedom. People all over the Islamic

world soon began using paper, from India to Spain. But Christian people in Europe were still using parchment. Starting in the 1200s, though, the Christians conquered Islamic Spain, and as they took over Spain they

also learned how to make paper. By 1250 AD, the Italians had learned to make good paper and sold it all over Europe. In 1338, French monks began to make their own paper. By 1411 – nearly a millennium and a half after it was invented – people in