PRATT, Charles Clarence, a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in New Milford, Susquehanna County, Pa., April 23, 1854; attended the rural schools in his community, Sedgwick Institute,…
Almost complete skeletonDinosaur toothMissing skullMummified dinosaursPalaeontologists can have a hard time finding and identifying dinosaur fossils because they are usually embedded in stone.…
WHAT WERE EARLY FORMS OF WRITING LIKE? WHERE ELSE DID PEOPLE USE PICTOGRAMS? CUNEIFORMALPHABETFIND OUT MOREWriting was invented in Mesopotamia, around 3200 BC. Cities had grown so big that people…
After There was 'Lucy'New 2.5 million-year-old ancestor found in Ethiopia by Otto Johnson 2.5 million-year-old fossils Earlier this year, a team of Ethiopian, American, and Japanese researchers…
(Encyclopedia) Alton Alton ôlˈtən [key], city, Madison co., SW Ill., on bluffs of the Mississippi River 5 mi (8.1 km) above its confluence with the Missouri; inc. 1837.…
(Encyclopedia) Franconia MountainsFranconia Mountainsfrăngkōˈnēə [key], range in the White Mts., N N.H., rising to 5,249 ft (1,600 m) at Mt. Lafayette; part of White Mts. National Forest. Franconia…
(Encyclopedia) intagliointaglioĭntălˈyō, –tälˈ– [key], design cut into stone or other material or etched or engraved in a metal plate, producing a concave, instead of a convex, effect. It is the…
(Encyclopedia) Fort Niagara, post on the southern shore of Lake Ontario, at the mouth of the Niagara River, NW N.Y. It was strategically located on the water route to the fur lands. French explorer…
