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Dogs: Bringing home your new dog

Dogs Bringing home your new dog What Next? So you've taken the plunge and adopted a dog of your own. Congratulations! But what do you do now? No doubt you're excited and looking forward to…

Rare and Deadly Diseases: Rabies

RabiesRare and Deadly DiseasesIntroductionHemorrhagic FeversEbola: Africa's Bloody DiseaseMarburgHantavirus: Four Corners, United StatesMad Cow DiseaseCJD: Mad Cow's Human…

games, children's

(Encyclopedia) games, children's, amusements or pastimes involving more than one child and in which there is some sort of formalized dramatic element, contest, or plot. Games are a cultural universal…

hunger strike

(Encyclopedia) hunger strike, refusal to eat as a protest against existing conditions. Although most often used by prisoners, others have also employed it. For example, Mohandas Gandhi in India and…

The Newbery Medal

For the most distinguished literature for children published in the U.S.; given by the American Library Association. John Newbery was an eighteenth-century British publisher.Since 19221922The…

DK Science: Senses

Making noisesEye socketsBinocular vision of modern animalsBinocular vision of the dinosaursPeripheral vision of modern animalsPeripheral vision of the dinosaursPerhaps the most difficult part of…

A - C

applet A small Java application that is downloaded by an ActiveX or Java-enabled web browser. Once it has been downloaded, the applet will run on the user's computer. Common applets include…

American Indian Loan Words

American Indian Loan Words   by Holly Hartman     From their earliest contact with traders and explorers, American Indians borrowed foreign words, often to describe things not…

Chemistry: Properties of Covalent Compounds

Properties of Covalent CompoundsChemistryGetting to Know Covalent CompoundsWhat Are Covalent Compounds?Formation of Multiple Covalent BondsProperties of Covalent CompoundsWhat's in a Name? Covalent…