Today I start my Lesley Blog for ECOMP 6008. We've completed several activities including the one to the left. With a classmate we interviewed each other and wrote a paragraph to create a Wordle.

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The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
By: Waterhouse Hawkins
Summary:
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbra Curley is a story about Waterhouse Hawkins who was an artist in London during the 1850’s. Waterhouse grew up sketching the world around him, and when he was a young adult he found his true passion of animals, especially dinosaurs. The most exciting project was creating life size models for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert for the Art and Science Museum Crystal Palace.
The process of how Waterhouse constructed these dinosaurs was a drawing, small clay model, life-size model, mold, iron skeleton and then finally the finished dinosaur.
One of his big concerns was acceptance from the scientific community. To show off his creations Waterhouse planned an elaborate dinner party for 21 prominent scientists and supporters. The dinner party was a huge success leading Waterhouse into his next project in America where he was commissioned to complete another dinosaur museum in New York City’s Central Park.

Two years into the construction of the museum Waterhouse’s new project was thwarted by a corrupt politician named “Boss” Tweed causing him to abandon the project.
However, Waterhouse went on to give America paintings of dinosaurs of the development of life on Earth in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.

When Waterhouse returned to London in later years he learned of the discovery of dinosaur skeletons in Belgium confirming his life’s work.
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