An insect is a kind of small animal with certain features that make it different from every other kind of animal. It is an invertebrate animal, which means that it has no spine, or backbone. It is …
An insect is a kind of small animal with certain features that make it different from every other kind of animal. It is an invertebrate animal, which means that it has no spine, or backbone. It is …
The letter B is the second letter of the alphabet. It can be traced all the way back to the earliast writing known to man, in Egypt thousands of years ago. In Hebrew language, in which much of the …
Canaries are a kind of small bird, famous for their singing. They are usually yellow, but some are greenish, or a mixture of Europe five hundred years ago from the Canary Islands and the Madeira Is…
Cloclks and watches are the two latest devices for telling what time it is. Clocks are about 600 years old, and watches about 400 years old, but other devices for keeping time go back thousands of …
Lac is sticky substance that comes from the bodies of certain female insects in India and parts of Asia. These insects feed on the sap of twigs from certain trees. as the sticky substance comes out…
Mound builders is the name given to certain American Indians who built mounds of earth in the Ohio and Missiissippi valleys, long ago. Most of the mounds were places where the Indians buried their …
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