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To put it briefly, education is the process of learning and acquiring information and skills. Education can take place in 2 main types: formal learning, usually in school or universities, and self-taught learning. Education is a very important part of our...

You might think the first wind machines would have been dedicated to some labor saving task, but that may not have been the case. The first known wind machine design wasn't for grinding grain or pumping water, but for playing an organ. Hero of...

What killed the dinosaurs? It's like a classic Sherlock Holmes mystery. Bodies have been found. There are all kinds of clues. Something killed a great many victims. But what? The murders occurred 65 million years ago. The victims included the...

Child Development: 6 Months Children acquire physical and motor skills in specific stages called "milestones." There are, of course, wide variations between individuals, but general guidelines are useful to assess development. By six months, babies...

It's worth its weight in gold. When one Asian silkworm egg, weighing only 1/30,000th of an ounce, hatches, the emerging caterpillar will produce a beautiful silk thread. In demand for thousands of years, silk has been one of the world's most valuable...

Maclaren was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of David Maclaren, a merchant who was also a Baptist preacher. Maclaren was twice president of the Baptist Union of Great Britain, and president of the Baptist World Congress, in London, in 1905. He...

The term “igloo” comes from the Inuit word “iglu” which means “house”. Igloos, or snow houses, are remarkable structures built by many cultures living in particularly cold and snowy areas. Igloos were usually temporary winter shelters...

Sunday: is the Lord's day for Christians, yet it is named for the sun, it is a day that stands for the sun. Monday: is named for the moon. The pronunciation is similar to Moon-day. Tuesday: is not named for the number. It is named for the Germanic...

The fireNotes add-on for Firefox is unique. It allows you to setup your own customized RSS feed links or embedded pages within the Firefox browsing window. Think of it as a local alternative to the popular start pages like Netvibes or...

The emergence of Homo sapiens occurred sometime between 130,000 years to 200,000 years from now – the period when the human origin took place in the universe. "Civilization" is often used as a synonym for the broader term "culture" in both...

The scarecrow is one of the most familiar figures of the rural landscape not only in the United States but throughout the world. Scarecrows frighten birds because of the human odor emitted from the clothes they wear. Come rain and wind, this odor...

Turns out Facebook wasn’t always called Facebook. It originally launched as TheFacebook on thefacebook.com with Zuckerberg claiming he was “Founder, Master and Commander, Enemy of the State”. It didn’t become Facebook.com until 2005 when the...