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The years 1968 and 1969 were racked with war, violence, terrorism, and civil unrest around the world. Wars raged in Vietnam and Nigeria; So...

The area which was formerly the site of the Whitfield Barracks of the British Army was developed into a park in 1970. More than 70 buildi...

Fath-Ali Shah and his sons In theory the king may do what he pleases; his word is law. The saying that ‘The law of the Medes and Persia...

Alice Paul A proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide for the equality of sexes under the law. The centra...

On January 23, 1997, Madeleine Albright, who had earlier served as U.S. ambassador to the UN, assumed under President Bill Clinton the offi...

Native to the South Pacific islands, kava root was traditionally brewed into a drink for royalty. Over time it was taken medicinally to r...

Winds have carried mariners across the seas since before recorded time. They so affected early seafaring that ancient sailors personalize...

There are approximately 3,500 species of mosquito just a few rank among the deadliest creatures on Earth. They include Anopheles gambiae, w...

Archaeological evidence suggests 5,000-yearold bathing facilities in Gaza. Soaplike material found in clay jars of Babylonian origin has ...

Until 1869, few had heard of the giant black-and-white creatures hiding in China’s forests. Decades later, pandamania gripped the world. ...

At a brick factory on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, a swaddled baby sways in a makeshift hammock. The child’s mother works at the kil...

Nasir'd-Din Shah in London at the Garden-Party given at Hatfield House in 1889 (The Illustrated London News May 16, 1896)

(National Geographic)

Fath-‘Ali Shah (1771-1834) whose reign coincided with rivalry among France, Great Britain, and Russia over eastern affairs, ruled Iran from...

Tropical cyclones (hurricanes, typhoons) form and grow over warm ocean water, drawing their energy from latent heat. Latent heat is the e...

New ways to grab dinner, the trick to using a tool, and learning the local dialect. These are behaviors that animals pick up from each ot...

(October 27, 1958 – January 6, 1919) A writer, naturalist, and soldier. He expanded the powers of the presidency and of the federal gov...

Clouds are condensed form of atmospheric moisture consisting of small water droplets or tiny ice crystals. Clouds are the principal visib...

When the glaciers retreated at the end of the last Ice Age, about 25,000 B.C., Indians and Eskimos (Inuit) gradually made their way across ...

Indian Greater Adjutant storks sit on garbage as waste pickers collect usable goods from a garbage dumping site on the eve of the World E...

Snowy Owl lives in the upper latitude of North America, Europe, and Asia. (National Geographic 2016)

(Adapted from National Geographic 2016)

Time is conscious experience of duration, the period during which an action or event occurs. Time is also a dimension representing a succ...

We live in an age of insects. About half of all known animals are insects. Scientists have found about 1 million species (kinds) of insect...

Mathematics is a way of describing relationships between numbers and other measurable quantities. Mathematics can express simple equations ...

1 -->   Medial Preoptic Area (MPOA): This is the area for sexual pursuit, found in the hypothalamus, and it is 2.5 times larger in th...

Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist whose fossil discoveries in East Africa proved that human beings were far older than had previousl...

The Earth has warmed 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit on average since the late 19 th century. Most of the warming has occurred since 1960, the pe...

As of June 2015 there were 438 reactors operational with 67 power plants under construction. (European nuclear society: https://www.eu...

Researchers in the U.K. have developed a way of storing digital data inside tiny structures contained in glass. The storage technology is s...

The home of the Shah's harem, where each wife and favorite has her own household establishment, thus forming a big family of several ...

Every year the Earth loops through a solar system crowded with other bodies, there’s a chance it could run into trouble. So far more ...

With 356 million 10-24 year-olds, India has the world’s largest youth population despite having a smaller population than China, a latest U...

Europe's imperial powers had been engaged in economic and military rivalries for decades, but these became increasingly virulent duri...

They are gemstone associated with the date of one's birth, the wearing of which is commonly thought to bring good luck or health. Sup...

Much of human history unfolded during the dramatic climatic shifts of the most recent ice age which began about 2.5 million years ago. Ou...

Scientists have discovered the bones and artifacts of early humans in many parts of Africa and Eurasia. The earliest humans, known as aus...

Aristotle's approach to ethics is teleological. If life is to be worth living, he argues, it must surely be for the sake of something...

He was an American petroleum engineer, credited with drilling the first productive oil well in the United States. Born in Greenville, New...

The Drake well at Titusville, Pennsylvania, was completed on August 28, 1859 (some sources list the date as August 27). The driller, Willia...

The phrase "mind's eye" refers to the human ability to visualize, i.e., to experience visual mental imagery; in other words...

Storm chasers photograph a spring supercell thunderstorm near Texline, Texas. Supercells are severe, potentially dangerous storms that ha...

Most ants have two compound eyes, which are made up of light-sensitive compartments called ommatidia. These compartments work together to...

The cost (in 2008 dollars) and the numbers of American casualties in various wars: American Revolution (1775-1783): $1.825 billion; b...