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children's book illustration

(Encyclopedia) children's book illustration, any type of picture or decorative work produced for books specifically intended for a youthful audience. During the 1960s a number of seldom-used…

Animal FAQs

Do animals cry? Most animals don't (with the exception of human beings), but there is a large, gentle marine mammal called a dugong who lives in the Indian Ocean and sheds tears when in trouble or…

Andrew Jackson

Born: 3/15/1767Birthplace: Waxhaw, S.C. Andrew Jackson was born on March 15, 1767, in what is now generally agreed to be Waxhaw, S.C. After a turbulent boyhood as an orphan and a British prisoner,…

Dracula's Descendant: Prince Kretzulesco

German Prince fears Neo-Nazi firestarters by David Johnson Claiming that Neo-Nazis keep setting fire to his crumbling castle home in Schenkendorf, south of Berlin, the last living member of…

DK Society & Beliefs: Confucianism

DO PEOPLE WORSHIP CONFUCIUS? WHAT ARE THE FIVE CLASSICS? FIND OUT MOREKong Fuzi (“Master Kong”), known as Confucius to Western cultures, was a wise man who lived in China from 551 to 479 BCE. His…

The West

Source: The U.S. Department of State Americans have long regarded the West as the last frontier. Yet California has a history of European settlement older than that of most midwestern states.…

Six Kingdoms of Life

by Beth Rowen Related Links Classifying Animals Estimated Number of Animal Species Animal Groups Every living creature…

Geometry: Transformations

TransformationsGeometryTransformationsIsometriesDilationsSymmetry There is very little in our world that is static. Living things like to move. I remember thinking how great it would be to move…