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Olympic Preview: Archery

First Olympic Appearance: 1900 by Beth Rowen Related Links Olympics Overview 2012 Encyclopedia: Archery   Did You Know? As legend has it, Robin Hood once won an archery…

Business Personalities

Horace Marden AlbrightLinda AlvaradoElias Milton AmmonsElizabeth ArdenGiorgio ArmaniAaron ArrowsmithMary Kay AshLaura AshleyRoger BabsonKarl BaedekerRobert Joseph BarroTomas BataCharlotte…

DK Nature: Fish

WHERE DO FISH LIVE? HOW DO SHARKS HUNT? ARE THERE ANY PARASITIC FISH? FISH CLASSIFICATIONGILLS BIOLUMINESCENCEFIND OUT MOREFish are aquatic animals with an inner skeleton, including skull, ribs…

Millais, Sir John Everett

(Encyclopedia) Millais, Sir John EverettMillais, Sir John Everettmĭlāˈ [key], 1829–96, English painter. A prodigy, he began studying at the Royal Academy at the age of 11. In 1848, together with…

musk ox

(Encyclopedia) musk ox, hoofed ruminant mammal, Ovibos moschatus, found in arctic North America and Greenland. The northernmost member of the cattle family (though it is not closely related to true…

auk

(Encyclopedia) aukaukôk [key], common name for a member of the family Alcidae (alcid family), swimming and diving birds of the N Atlantic and Pacific, which includes the guillemots and puffins. Their…

Goodall, Jane

(Encyclopedia) Goodall, JaneGoodall, Janeg&oobreve;dˈôl [key], 1934–, English ethologist and primatologist. After working with Louis Leakey but without any formal scientific training, she…