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Carlsbad Caverns National Park

(Encyclopedia) Carlsbad Caverns National Park, 46,766 acres (18,940 hectares), SE N.Mex., in the Guadalupe Mts.; designated a national park in 1930. These connecting limestone caves, with remarkable…

DK People & Places: Eastern Europe

WHAT ARE THE BALTIC STATES? WHY WAS THE UKRAINE ONCE KNOWN AS A “BREADBASKET” ? WHY DO MOST PEOPLE LIVE IN THE EUROPEAN PART OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION (RUSSIA)? IS RUSSIA RICH IN NATURAL RESOURCES…

DK Science: Asteroids

ASTEROID IDANEAR EARTH ASTEROIDSMETEORITESKUIPER BELTFIND OUT MOREBillions of rocky lumps, called asteroids or minor planets, circle the Sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They occupy…

San Francisco Earthquake: 1906

The worst natural disaster in U.S. history by Chris Frantz San Francisco, California, April 1906 Related Links Almanac: San FranciscoSan Francisco Census Facts: 1906 Versus TodayAll…

Geometry: Taxi-Cab Geometry

Taxi-Cab GeometryGeometryWhose Geometry Is It Anyway?Non-Euclidean GeometryHyperbolic Geometry: Saddle Up!Spherical GeometryTaxi-Cab GeometryMax GeometryHow Many Shapes Can a Circle Have? Taxi-cab…

DK Space: Saturn

WHAT ARE SATURN’S RINGS? WHAT IS TITAN LIKE? FIND OUT MOREThis giant planet has a magnificent system of shining rings circling its equator. Saturn is the second-largest planet in the Solar System.…

Recent Science Discoveries, 2000

New Orleans, the New Atlantis? And other recent science discoveries by Otto Johnson More Discoveries IntroductionIce Age Haute CoutureAntisocial…

A Brief History of U.S. Banking

Source: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Banking has changed in many ways through the years. Banks today offer a wider range of products and services than ever before, and deliver them…

Manuel HERRICK, Congress, OK (1876-1952)

HERRICK, Manuel, a Representative from Oklahoma; born in Perry, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, September 20, 1876; moved with his parents to Greenwood County, Kans., in 1877; was self-educated;…