Barbie Dolls Barbie dolls have probably been on Christmas wish lists for several generations of girls. In fact Barbie has become a household name for many years. Who created the first concept of the Barbie doll? The story started with the birth of Ruth Mosko in Denver Colarado in 1916. Ruth married Elliot Handler in […]

Nasa’s Chandra x-ray observatory Nasa’s Chandra x-ray observatory has 100 times the resolving power of previous X-ray scopes and will be able to view the fine details of exploding stars and clusters of hot gas. It’s improved resolution is possible in part because of its unusually high elliptical orbit which will take it a third […]

CHRISTMAS TREES The tradition of the Christmas tree dates back to the middle ages and caught on in the United States in the 1800′s. Today, approximately 15,000 US growers tend one million acres of Christmas tree farmland. The price for trees averages $5.65 per foot. Among some of top selling trees in the US are: […]

We in America use the Fahrenheit scale when talking about temperature. But in other countries around the world, they use Celsius. So, if you want to know how cold or hot it is elsewhere, you may have to resort to a little bit of mathematics. To convert Fahrenheit degrees into Celsius, subtract 32, multiply by […]

Everybody loves teddy bears. But do you know how it actually got its name? The original stuffed animal was created after President Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot a black bear cub that he encounted during a hunting trip in 1902. The cub was tied up and this bothered the President greatly because he said “the […]

A Russian immigrant to America by the name of Vladimir Zworykin is credited with the invention of TV. He moved to the US in 1919 and got a job at Westinghouse Electric Corp. in Pittsburgh. He first invented the iconoscope (an electronic camera) and a kinescope (picture tube). In 1923, he unveiled the television, which […]

We can look up in the sky and see the Moon change every night. The different ways the Moon looks through a month’s time are called phases of the Moon. When the Moon is getting bigger, from the night when there is no Moon until the night of the full Moon, is called the Moon’s […]

WHAT ARE LASERS? LASER stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. A laser is a concentrated beam of light, created when an electric current passes through a special material. The name and color of the laser depend on the type of special material that is used: Argon gas brings a blue-green light; Krypton […]

The Africanized Honeybee is no more harmful than the common honeybee (whom they resemble) but they are highly aggressive. They become infuriated easily and will swarm on a perceived danger to deliver hundreds of stings. Whereas the European bee will defend a territory of 350-450 yards, the Africanized version will defend its territory up to […]

Have you ever heard anyone say something only happened “once in a blue moon”? Did you know what they meant? A “blue moon” is when one month of the year has two full moons in it, like January of 1999 which had a full moon on January 1 and another on January 31. Because the […]

No, it’s not little green men. A team of NASA scientists has made a discovery that suggests that primitive life may have existed on Mars more than 3.6 billion years ago. The team of scientists found many pieces of evidence, including possible fossils, that suggests that microscopic, bacteria-like organisms once lived on the planet. The […]

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