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Writing Well: In the End Zone

In the End ZoneWriting WellIn the End ZoneCredit Given HereStop, Thief!Light at the End of the Tunnel A thesis doesn't become a fact just because you line up some proof. You could find three or more…

DK Earth: Planet Earth

HOW WAS EARTH FORMED? IS EARTH THE SAME ALL THE WAY THROUGH? HOW DOES EARTH SUPPORT LIFE? HOW DOES EARTH MOVE THROUGH SPACE? SEASONSFIND OUT MOREPlanet Earth is a dense, rocky ball about 7,920…

Classical Mythology: The End of Heroes

The End of HeroesClassical MythologyAll's Not Fair in Love and War: The Fall of TroyThe Face That Launched a Thousand ShipsThe Final Battles: The Tenth Year of the WarThe End of Heroes The war cost…

Dead Sea

(Encyclopedia) Dead Sea, salt lake, c.390 sq mi (1,010 sq km), extending c.45 mi (70 km) in the Jordan trough of the Great Rift Valley between the Ghor on the north and Wadi Arabah on the south, on…

mongoose

(Encyclopedia) mongoose, name for a large number of small, carnivorous, terrestrial Old World mammals of the civet family. They are found in S Asia and in Africa, with one species extending into S…

Campania

(Encyclopedia) Campania Campania kämpäˈnyä [key], region, 5,249 sq mi (13,595 sq km), central Italy, extending from…

State Symbols

StateSongBirdTreeFlowerAlabama“Alabama” (1931)yellowhammer (1927)Southern longleaf pine (1949, 1997)camellia (1959)Salt water fish: fighting tarpon (1955); Fresh water fish: largemouth bass (1975…

exploration

(Encyclopedia) exploration, travel to a part of the earth that is relatively unknown to the traveler's culture, historically often motivated by a desire for colonization, conquest, or trade. See also…

Early, Jubal Anderson

(Encyclopedia) Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816–94, Confederate general, b. Franklin co., Va., grad. West Point, 1837. After fighting against the Seminole in Florida he resigned from the army (1838),…

nest

(Encyclopedia) nest, structure for the reception and incubation of the eggs of birds, reptiles, insects, and some fish or for the parturition of mammals, and also for the care of the young during…