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African-American Biographies by Category

Notable African Americans   A-Z List Government Officials Civil Rights Leaders Religious Leaders Scientists & Inventors Abolitionists Scholars & Educators Entertainers Literary…

Hoaxes - Corporate

Corporate Shenanigans by Shmuel Ross Yo Quiero LibertyOn April 1, 1996, readers of newspapers including the New York Times were met with a full-page advertisement announcing that Taco Bell…

Spotlight: The Search for Life in the Solar System

So How's the Europan Seafood? Even if life does exist on Europa, it is still too early to take up extraterrestrial ice fishing. Most likely, only very primitive forms of life would exist (microbes…

Measuring Years

The word for the longest measurement of time is kalpa, Hindi for 432 billion years. A year is the time it takes for the earth to revolve around the sun once. A calendar year is 365 days.…

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You are welcome and encouraged to link from your web site to Fact Monster. Please remember that the majority of the information on Factmonster.com is protected by copyright, and you many not copy the…

Media Mail (Book Rate)

Generally used for books (at least eight pages), film (16 mm or narrower), printed music, printed test materials, sound recordings, play scripts, printed educational charts, loose-leaf pages and…

John Glenn

The Right StuffPioneer John Glenn Returns to Space by Michael Morrison Is there anything John Glenn can't do? College graduate, distinguished war hero, the first American to orbit the earth,…