PENCIL STORY

Pencils are cylindrical shaped wooden or rubber which usually carry sticks and graphite are used in writing or drawing . Like many of the inventions used in modern life , locate the inventors or pencil , is complicated because several versions of who actually came up with the idea for this new stick that most people know very handled early age.
Some historians attribute the invention to the French, Nicholas Jacques Conté, in part for his method to harden powdered graphite , on the other hand , some say that the invention of the pencil is owed to the son of an Austrian carpenter named Joseph Hardtmuth tired see the poor quality of the writing that at the time, 1752, he set out to make a mixture of clay and graphite. Pencils not come to America until after the Civil War and hence the production begin to be massive.
It is also said that in earliest times was written with sticks of lead, but was rather a woodcut style and not just writing on paper.

types of hardness and color pencils

Nicolas-Jacques Conté (4 August 1755 - December 6, 1805) was a military painter, and French aeronaut known for having invented the modern pencil graphite and clay. Born in Saint-Céneri-pres-Sees (now Aunou-sur-Orne) in Normandy, and soon known for his mechanical genius, rose rapidly in the army during the Napoleonic campaign of Egypt. Napoleon called him a "universal man with taste, understanding and genius capable of creating the arts in France in the middle of the Arabian Desert."

KOI FISH LEGEND

KOI FISH a species of carp native China famous worldwide for its colorful and tradition in Japan. The legend that one in a thousand that achieves koi fight corrienten and swim upriver to the waterfall and climb up to get rewarded for their efforts turned into dragons,so say the Koi carp are so similar to the dragons .

 this fish is associated with perseverance to the adversities (fortress) and persistence and also is said that the koi climb the waterfall means "succeed in life".

These fish are one of the most used Japanese symbols for tattoos due to its great significance and colorful design.