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Born David Gruen in Poland, Ben-Gurion became committed to Zionism, the movement to settle and unite Jews in Palestine, under the influence...

Great Wall (China), popular name for a semi-legendary wall built to protect China’s northern border in the 3rd century BC, and for impres...

European nations came to the Americas to increase their wealth and broaden their influence over world affairs. The Spanish were among the...

  When you look at rushing waterfalls and rivers, you may not immediately think of electricity. But hydroelectric (water-powered) power pl...

When the steam engine was invented at the beginning of the 18 th century, most sources of fuel worldwide were the same as they had been ...

Believed to be the last photo of Abraham Lincoln, February 1865

The sun is of only average mass, starwise, and after burning through the last of its hydrogen fuel in about five billion years, its outer...

Tardigrades (also known as water bears or moss piglets ) are water-dwelling, segmented   micro-animals, with eight legs. They were fi...

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...