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Excerpts from King's most famous addresses Related Links Martin Luther King Day Timeline: Martin Luther King, Jr. The History of Martin Luther King Day Notable…
WHAT IS AN ECOSYSTEM? WHAT IS BIODIVERSITY? WHY DO ECOSYSTEMS CHANGE? FOOD CHAINNUTRIENT CYCLESFIND OUT MOREAll living things have complex relationships with other species and with their…
HOW IS MUSIC CREATED? HOW DO WE REMEMBER PIECES OF MUSIC? LIVE PERFORMANCE RHYTHMPITCHMELODYFIND OUT MOREMusic is the art of making sounds and arranging them in an entertaining way. People create…
German Prince fears Neo-Nazi firestarters by David Johnson Claiming that Neo-Nazis keep setting fire to his crumbling castle home in Schenkendorf, south of Berlin, the last living member of…
Source: The U.S. Department of State Americans have long regarded the West as the last frontier. Yet California has a history of European settlement older than that of most midwestern states.…
DO PEOPLE WORSHIP CONFUCIUS? WHAT ARE THE FIVE CLASSICS? FIND OUT MOREKong Fuzi (“Master Kong”), known as Confucius to Western cultures, was a wise man who lived in China from 551 to 479 BCE. His…
Senate Years of Service: 1953-1976Party: DemocratSYMINGTON, William Stuart (Stuart), (father of James Wadsworth Symington, son-in-law of James Wadsworth), a Senator from Missouri; born in…
Do animals cry? Most animals don't (with the exception of human beings), but there is a large, gentle marine mammal called a dugong who lives in the Indian Ocean and sheds tears when in trouble or…
Born: 3/15/1767Birthplace: Waxhaw, S.C. Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in what is now generally agreed to be Waxhaw, S.C. After a turbulent boyhood as an orphan and a British prisoner,…
