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 …
IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES, the subject treated in the Encyclopedia are listed in groups. Each group of subjects applier to a particullar course or class that is taught in schools or that the reader ma…
Anything that is put into a gun to make it fire a shot is called ammunition. Therefore ammunition ancludes both the bullet that is fired from a pistol and the gunpowder that sends it on its way. Am…
Vermont is one of the New England states, in the eastern part of the United States. it was the fourteenth state to be admitted to the United States, the first to join the Union after the original t…