Linds113 wants to help you sleep better.

Did you know that, on average, teenagers these days are getting 6 to 7 hours of sleep? It might not be a surprise to you because you're not getting enough sleep yourself. I am pretty sure you know that sleeping gives you energy that you need to get through the day, but the problem is that you can't make yourself go to sleep at 9 or 10 PM.

Occasionally, you might catch yourself falling asleep during the day in the middle of a lecture in class. I've read about many different tips on how to give you a more relaxing sleep and a better sleeping pattern. Before we get to that, I'd like to point out a few things that might be causing you to stay up a little too late:

* Sleeping too much during the weekend.
* You enjoy watching TV shows that air late at night.
* Thinking too much while you sleep.
* Long naps in the afternoon.

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Hizgrl remembers a boat from history.

On February 23, 1942, an explosion was heard in the Black Sea. The Struma sank terribly into the bottom of the ocean.

During WWII, many Jews of Europe were being tormented by the brutal actions of the Nazis. They were being crowded into ghettos that lacked food and sanitation. Others got deported to horrible camps. There, they had to work to death or they were immediate killed. And that wasn't all.

After Hitler came to power and invaded European nations, several people planned to migrate to other countries. Ships were built to carry Jews to these locations. Some people made it, but most didn't. Countless number of ships got sent back to their countries, and the Nazis took over from there. The story of the Struma, however, was rather different from a lot of these stories.

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