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r_text[0] = "Nearly 350 caves have been discovered in Europe that contain paintings of wild animals, human hands and abstract patterns. The earliest known cave paintings are 40,000 years old.";
r_text[1] = "The first pigments used in painting were ground from earth minerals and organic matter. Modern paints are made chemically.";
r_text[2] = "'Cartoon' originally came from the outlines used for transferring a design for a fresco or painting.";
r_text[3] = "During his lifetime Vincent van Gogh was not famous and struggled to make a living. Today he is one of the world's most valued painters.";
r_text[4] = "Picasso could draw before he could walk, and his first word was the Spanish word for pencil.";
r_text[5] = "Matisse's painting 'The Boat', hung upside down for two months in the Museum for Modern Art in New York and not one of the 116,000 visitors noticed.";
r_text[6] = "The Statue of Liberty is the largest hammered copper statue in the world. The height of the statue is 151 feet and 1 inch.";
r_text[7] = "Mount Rushmore in South Dakota is the largest work of art on earth. Each face is six stories high, compared to the head of the Statue of Liberty which is 17 feet tall.";
r_text[8] = "Gutzon Borglum, who sculpted the presidential monument at Mount Rushmore, was influenced by Auguste Rodin whose major influence was Michelangelo.";
r_text[9] = "Fire and clay for pottery, fire and sand for glass, fire and mineral for metal.";
r_text[10] = "The Egyptians developed papyrus from reeds growing along the Nile in 3500 B.C. Three millennia later the Turks created parchment from the skins of animals. Paper, invented by the Chinese in A.D. 50, was widely in use by the Middle Ages.";
r_text[11] = "Graphite was discovered in England in 1560 and five years later marked the first record of a pencil consisting of a piece of graphite in a wood shaft.";
r_text[12] = "Glass lenses and optics were refined over thousands of years until techniques perfected in the late 17th and early 18th centuries gave us the microscopes and telescopes of discovery.";
r_text[13] = "The abacus led to the calculator, which ultimately became the first electronic computer in the U.S. in 1946. The first computer games appeared in 1974.";
r_text[14] = "Safety pins, paper clips, band-aids and zippers all came along in the 19th century while post-it notes, Velcro, piquid paper, Legos and frisbies arrived in the 20th century.";
r_text[15] = "Human breath blowing through carved bone or gours or reed was first used for signaling, and then gradually developed into music.";
r_text[16] = "The two main families of wind instruments are woodwind and brass because of the materials first used to construct them.";
r_text[17] = "A common solution to taking a breath while blowing was to separate the reed from the mouth and squeezing a bag filled with air, as in 'bagpipes'";
r_text[18] = "The kazoo was designed in the 1840's by an African American named Alabama Vest.";
r_text[19] = "The study of sound and music began with notes plucked from the ancient Greek lyre. It consisted of strings stretched over a frame and may have descended from the archer's bow.";
r_text[20] = "Pythagoras, the great mathematician, discovered that the pitch of a note created by a stretched string related to the length of the string.";
r_text[21] = "Sound moves in waves and the vibrations that reach our ears are heard as changes in air pressure by the ear drums.  Musical instruments make different sounds because of their shape, size and the materials used to make them.";
r_text[22] = "Until about 200 years ago, most people considered music to be a science, like astronomy.";
r_text[23] = "The pipe organ was invented by an engineer in Alexandria, Egypt, over 2200 years ago. It was the first keyboard instrument in history.";
r_text[24] = "Using keyboards to sound strings by mechanism was perfected in the 15th century and eventually became the piano as we know it today.";
r_text[25] = "Isaac Newton discovered that white light is composed of different colors in the 1660s. It would be two centuries before color filter overlay would be used to take the first color photograph in 1861.";
r_text[26] = "Earthrise is the name given to a color photograph of the Earth taken by astronaut William Anders in 1968 during the historic Apollo 8 mission, the first manned mission to orbit the moon.";
r_text[27] = "'Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the THINKS you can think of if only you try!' Dr. Seuss.";
r_text[28] = "'The whole world is full of things, and somebody has to look for them.' Astrid Lindgren";
r_text[29] = "'Sometimes you make a mistake, or break something, or lose a hat, and the next thing you know, you get a great idea.' Maira Kalman";
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