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DK History: Early Farming

HOW DID FARMING CHANGE PEOPLE’S LIVES? WHICH PLANTS DID THE FIRST FARMERS GROW? HOW DID PEOPLE BECOME BETTER FARMERS? DOMESTICATIONFERTILE CRESCENTFIND OUT MOREFarming began c. 10,000 BC on land…

Homework Center: World History

Subjects » Geography » History » Language Arts » Mathematics » Science » Social Studies Homework Skills Writing | Research Speaking & Listening Studying Reference Sources…

Writing Well: Playing with the Big Kids

Playing with the Big KidsWriting WellWriting Across the CurriculumDifferent Strokes for Different FolksPlaying with the Big KidsFull CreditTwo's Company, Three's a Crowd— Unless You're Writing When…

Pliocene epoch

(Encyclopedia) Pliocene epochPliocene epochplīˈəsēn [key], fifth epoch of the Cenozoic era of geologic time (see Geologic Timescale, tablegeologic timescale, table), from 5.1 to 2 million years ago.…

Bali

(Encyclopedia) Bali Bali bäˈlē [key], island and (with two offshore islets) province, c.2,200 sq mi…

Galápagos Islands

(Encyclopedia) Galápagos Islands Galápagos Islands gəlăpˈəgōs [key] [Span.,=tortoises], archipelago and province, 3,…

island

(Encyclopedia) island, relatively small body of land surrounded entirely by water. (As the oceans form a continuous mass of water on the earth's surface, all continents are islands in the strict…

Lighthouses: FAQ

Source: The United States Coast Guard Our first lighthouses were actually given to us by Nature. Sailors sometimes used landmarks such as glowing volcanoes to guide them. In the Ancient World,…

Homework Center: World Geography

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February 2005

WorldNepalese King Fires Government (Feb. 1): King Gyanendra also declares a state of emergency. Many of the country's politicians are placed under house arrest, phone and Internet lines are cut,…