Canadian History & Geography
This Canadian province gave its name to one of the Great Lakes
What is Ontario?
Now a widely-served meal by restaurants and at-home chefs around the world, the original version of this food was eaten with utensils due to being much thinner, but now, it is eaten mainly by hand
What is pizza?
The great one of these is the basis of the Grand Circle in the western United States
What is a basin?
This famous thinker from ancient Athens gave birth to the Geometry course that we study in high school today
Who is Euclid?
What is Innersloth?
The Hudson Bay is part of this waterway that explorers like Henry Hudson were searching for to find a faster route to Asia through the Americas
What is the Northwest Passage?
This kind of small, cold sandwich in the Far East contains various fillings surrounded by seaweed and rice
What is sushi?
An American kid invented this dessert in the 19th century by accident by freezing something for too long - this treat has become a global summer sensation now
What is a popsicle?
Julius Caesar was quite a bit ahead for his time when marching soldiers across this river through a bridge that he built for them instead of having them all cross said river by boat
What is the Rubicon River?
The next article I wrote that made it into the Editorial was based on the incoming middle-school system. In sixth grade, there are the normal English, math, science, history, and PE classes, but instead of choosing an elective, students learn "teen skills" through four quarter-long classes, one of which is Digital Citizenship. This course is supposed to combat this form of hurting someone's feelings online that may end up getting students into the principal's office.
What is cyberbullying?
In the colonial era, northern Canada was a very strategic colony from an economic standpoint due to this very profitable trade system with Europe being based there on the North American side
What is the fur trade?
This cooking tool commonly used for stir frying (among other culinary techniques) is often an overlooked Chinese invention
What is a wok?
This cold dessert fittingly is made of pieces of the titular solid with juice added into it
What is shaved ice?
Most European languages belong to a group known as these languages, which are related extremely closely to those of the empires of the classical world
What are Romance languages?
A resurgence in my interest for the Hawk Editorial arose in the 2021-22 school year. The first article of the new year was an interview with my seventh-grade history teacher. He had discussed how this 14th-century catastrophe suddenly became extremely relevant to today's world during the interview.
What is the Black Death?
What is the 54-degree 40-minute line?
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This hot, crispy dish originating from South India is made from a batter that is mostly made up of rice and black gram and has many variants based on their fillings
The Gobi desert was quite an effective natural barrier to the north of China and stretches into this present-day country whose name is derived from the first great empire to break through the barrier of the Gobi
What is Mongolia?
This person famously discovered how objects displace water - a water-transporting machine is named after him
Who is Archimedes?
In November, I wrote an article predicting the possible end of Daylight Savings Time (which will actually end in March 2023). One of my points was the reliance on this standard across the internet that makes these hour changes obsolete as we move away from agricultural relevance - we could just shift around our hours for the season!
What is coordinated universal time?
During the Colonial Era, these people took what is now Canada first - however, the British took it as part of the growth of their massive empire and forced them down to Louisiana
What are the Cajuns?
This state cuisine of Louisiana is a hot stew featuring ingredients such as celery, onions, and bell peppers and is traditionally served along with rice
What is gumbo?
Deserts are the biomes where this type of erosion is most prominent due to the low amounts of vegetation that is characteristic of those arid areas
What is wind?
Alexander the Great and his Macedonian Empire gave birth to these military units to conquer the entirety of the known world at the time
What are phalanxes?
In a recent Hawk Editorial article, I went over MiHoYo's plan to spend their Genshin Impact earnings on research on a greener energy solution. Instead of the power plants that have led to catastrophes such as Chernobyl in the past, he plans to fund the development of these reactors.
What are tokamak (nuclear fusion) reactors?