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Focal Point

The focal point is the part of the painting that catches your eye first. The focal point is sometimes called the “center of interest.”The Wedding Feast by Pieter Brueghel The focal point is…

Junior Wells

(Amos Blackmore)musicianBorn: 12/9/1934Birthplace: Memphis, Tennessee A hard driving vocalist and harmonica player that helped define Chicago blues, John Belushi and Dan Akroyd idolized Wells and…

The Deepest Lake in the World

The Question: What is the deepest lake-man-made or natural-in the world? The Answer: The deepest lake in the world is Lake Baikal in Siberia,…

Macquarie

(Encyclopedia) Macquarie, river, 590 mi (950 km) long, rising in the Blue Mts., E New South Wales, Australia, and flowing NW to the Darling River. It flows through an important sheep- and wheat-…

DK Science: Behaviour Cycles

MIGRATING REINDEERLONG JOURNEY HOMELONG-DISTANCE NAVIGATIONMONARCH MARATHONDORMANCYFIND OUT MOREAnimals have many instinctive behaviours that are linked to climate. Seasonal changes trigger…

DK Earth: Ice

HOW DO GLACIERS FORM? WHAT ARE ICE CAPS? ICEBERG FIND OUT MOREAt the poles and on high mountains, vast areas are covered in ice—in rivers of ice called glaciers, and in layers of ice called ice…

Weather: Galveston Storm Surge

Galveston Storm SurgeWeatherBlowing Cold and Hot: The Big OnesWinter Gone SouthBig-City SnowsStorm of the Century?The Greatest One of AllModern Winter of Deep SnowsGalveston Storm SurgeThe Great New…

Ballard, Robert Duane

(Encyclopedia) Ballard, Robert DuaneBallard, Robert Duanebălˈərd [key], 1942–, American marine geologist, b. Wichita, Kans.; Ph.D. Univ. of Rhode Island, 1974. From 1969 to 1997 he was associated…

subduction zone

(Encyclopedia) subduction zone, large-scaled narrow region in the earth's crust where, according to plate tectonics, masses of the spreading oceanic lithosphere bend downward into the earth along the…