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A gospel (from Old English, gōd spell "good news") is a writing that describes the life of Jesus. The word is primarily used to...

Dolphin (aquatic mammal), fast-swimming mammal belonging to the order Cetacea, which also includes whales and porpoises. Sleek and powerf...

Alabama: Was the first state to have 9-1-1, started 1968. Alaska: One out of every 64 people has a pilot's license.  Arizona: ...

The first European music is that of the ancient Greeks and Romans, dating from roughly 500 B.C. to A.D. 3OO. Fewer than a dozen examples ...

The amount of hair covering varies from one individual to another. An average person has about 100,000 hairs on their scalp. Most redhead...

No. The ultraviolet radiation that causes suntan does not pass through glass. A tan is the skin 's natural defense against these harm...

As described in Leviticus 16:1-27, part of a Hebrew ritual on the Day of Atonement involved the presentation of two male goats at the alt...

When you get sick , you must decide what course of action to take in order to recover your health. If you do not accept this responsibility...

Color blindness is a defect of vision affecting the ability to distinguish colors, occurring mostly in males. It involves a person’s inab...

Heavy water contains heavy hydrogen, or deuterium, instead of normal hydrogen.   Deuterium is the stable, nonradioactive isotope of hydro...

The name generally given to a large collection of funerary texts of various dates, containing magical formulas, hymns, and prayers believe...

Besides providing light and heat, the Sun affects the Earth through its ultraviolet radiation, the steady stream of the solar wind, and t...

It is estimated that in 1800 the population of Paris was about 550,000 and New York’s about 60,000. In 1931, however, these numbers incre...

Dr. James Watson, left, and Dr. Francis Crick with their  Nobel Prize-winning model of the DNA molecule Genetic engineering is th...

Strategic minerals are minerals essential to the national defense -- the supply of which a country uses but cannot produce itself. 33% to 5...

A microscope that uses electrons instead of visible light to produce highly magnified images of objects. Scientists use electron microsco...

what is it?   Fat packed deep in the abdomen, in and around your internal organs. Women with waists over 35 inches and men with waists ov...

(‘A Diet for a New America’, by John Robbins)

The incidence of breast cancer in the United States began climbing steadily in the early 1970s, and is now the highest ever seen in human...

The wettest place in the world is Tutunendo, Colombia, with an average annual rainfall of 463.4 inches (1177 centimeters) per year. The p...

Most types of plant-related diseases are caused by fungi. The leaves of this plant have been infected by tar-spot fungus. Fungi can infect ...

Geometry is a branch of mathematics that deals with shapes and sizes. Geometry may be thought of as the science of space. Just as arithme...

The best analogy for how we are coming to understand matter is the peeling of an onion. We peel off one layer and penetrate to a deeper o...

Not all inventions change our lives, some just make us scratch our heads. For all those waiters rushed off their feet, Philip Garner (U...

In our own genetic profile, believe it or not, scientific evidence indicates that we humans share 99.4 percent of our total DNA sequences...

Because they are unable to accomplish life's processes by themselves, viruses are not considered living organisms. They are able to m...

Mammals have fur and birds have feathers for protection. What covers butterflies and moths? Answer: Butterflies and moths are covered wi...

The use of language is one of the key characteristics that distinguish Homo sapiens from other primates. Because no direct evidence of la...

How would you experience optimal efficiency of your healing system? Very likely you would not be aware of it, because we tend to pay litt...

Most medical histories chronicle great discoveries by great men, from Hippocrates, the father of medicine, to Alexander Fleming, who disc...

In Greek mythology, Chaos was the primal void that gave birth to Gaea (Earth), Tartarus (Infernal Regions), Eros (Love), Erebus (Darkness...

The motto above the eye on the dollar bill means, ''He [God] Favored Our Undertakings." The eye represents the all-seeing de...

The Romans named the third day of the week dies Martis, for Mars, the god of war. It is still known as mardi in French and as martes in S...

Incidence of high blood pressure in meat eaters compared to vegetarians: Nearly triple Incidence of very high blood pressure in meat...

Although a raindrop has been illustrated as being pear-shaped or tear-shaped, high-speed photographs reveal that a large raindrop has a sph...

Since 1950, hurricane names are officially selected from library sources and are decided during the international meetings of the World M...

In 1990 Chicago ranked 21st in the list of 68 windy cities with an average wind speed of 10.3 miles (16.6 kilometers) per hour. Cheyenne,...

The temperature of the air around a bolt of lightning is about 54,000 Fahrenheit (30,000 Celsius) , which is six times hotter than the su...

Some of the first evidence indicating that atherosclerosis was not simply a consequence of growing old but was rooted in our dietary inta...

('Diet for a New America', by John Robbins)

It is this force that links atoms and molecules to form ordinary solid bodies. Thus, if your elbow doesn't sink into the wood of your...

The astronomer Jean Picard (France, 1620-82) of the Observatoire de Paris -- who was the first to measure the earth's diameter precis...

In medicine, synergy is the "cooperative" action of two or more drugs, muscles, or organs. The term is applied especially to drug...

Five different temperature scales are in use today: (1) the Celsius scale, known also as the Centigrade scale, (2) the Fahrenheit sca...