It’s unlikely that we’ll ever know who first tied wooden boards to their feet to travel over snow, since the sport may have been invented more than 5,000 years ago. In the frozen northern…
Maurice F. Rabb, Jr.Joseph Rainey Virginia RandolphNancy Davis ReaganBenjamin ReifelHiram RevelsJoseph Jones ReynoldsCondoleezza RiceBill RichardsonElliot RichardsonNorbert RillieuxJ. Catherine…
HOW DO RIVERS BEGIN? WHAT IS A RIVER’S LOAD? HOW DO RIVERS SHAPE THE LANDSCAPE? WHAT IS AN ESTUARY? HOW ARE DELTAS FORMED? LAKESFIND OUT MOREA river is a natural channel down which water flows to…
The Iditarod Alaska's marathon sled-dog race by Erin Teare The first Saturday in March marks the beginning of the Iditarod, a one thousand mile sled dog race across Alaska's harsh…
(Encyclopedia) pus, thick white or yellowish fluid that forms in areas of infection such as wounds and abscesses. It is constituted of decomposed body tissue, bacteria (or other micro-organisms that…
(Encyclopedia) President's Park, c.82 acres (33 hectares), Washington, D.C. A unit of the National Park system, it includes the White House, the official residence of the president of the United…
—By Christine Frantz That kitty sitting on your lap can now boast of her own family history. A research team, lead by Warren E. Johnson of the National Cancer Institute, studied the DNA of 37…
Senate Years of Service: 1907-1913Party: RepublicanDIXON, Joseph Moore, a Representative and a Senator from Montana; born in Snow Camp, Alamance County, N.C., July 31, 1867; attended Earlham…
(Encyclopedia) Pamuk, OrhanPamuk, Orhanôrˈhän päˈm&oomacr;k [key], 1952–, Turkey's most celebrated contemporary novelist, studied Robert College (now Univ. of the Bosporus) and İstanbul Univ.…
(Encyclopedia) cat, name applied broadly to the carnivorous mammals constituting the family Felidae, and specifically to the domestic cat, Felis catus. The great roaring cats, the lion, tiger, and…
