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DK People & Places: Western US

HOW FERTILE IS THE WEST COAST? WHY DOES LOS ANGELES HAVE TROUBLE WITH POLLUTION? DO AMERICAN INDIANS HAVE THEIR OWN LAND? WHY IS THE PACIFIC COAST A DANGEROUS AREA TO LIVE IN? WHAT IS DEATH…

DK Science: Plant Products

MANUFACTURING PAPERTAPPING RUBBERFIELD OF LAVENDERTIMBER FOR CONSTRUCTIONHENNA FOR HANDSNATURAL FIBRESFIND OUT MOREAs well as food and medicines, plants provide other useful products. Many…

Worst Enemies/Best Friends: Index

Stars Over Beacon Street Charlotte Stars and books have always been my best friends. My books go with me wherever we move. And the stars, they are always there when we get there. The first stars…

Anatomy and
Physiology: The Control Center

The Control CenterAnatomy and PhysiologyThe Central and Peripheral Nervous SystemsYou've Got Some Nerve!Gyri and SulciThe Control CenterSensory and Motor ControlThalamus: The Switching StationSpinal…

Ellen Dorrit Hoffleit Biography

scientistDied: April 9, 2007 (New Haven, Connecticut) Best Known as: astromoner and author of "The Bright Star Catalogue" Astromer who compiled "The Bright Star…

Lorraine Rothman Biography

women's rights advocateDied: Sept. 25, 2007 (Fullerton, California) Best Known as: women's rights advocate and inventor Controversial women’s advocate and…

Clayton Moore

Jack Carlton MooreactorBorn: 9/14/1914Birthplace: Chicago actor who played the eponymous character in 169 episodes of television's The Lone Ranger (1949–1957), as well as in two films. When his…

Katherine Anne Porter

short-story writer, novelistBorn: 5/15/1890Birthplace: Indian Creek, Texas Pulitzer Prize-winning short-story writer and novelist whose elegant prose earned her wide renown. Porter's work includes…

James L. Brooks

director, producer, writerBorn: 5/9/1940Birthplace: North Bergen, New Jersey Director, producer, and writer of the Oscar-winning films Terms of Endearment (1983) and As Good As It Gets (1997), as…

James Agee

writerBorn: 11/27/1909Birthplace: Knoxville, Tennessee Brilliant and versatile, he wrote the text for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), which, with photographs by Walker Evans, details the lives…