Mickey Mouse Mickey Mouse – the one mouse anyone would love to have scurrying about their house, is undoubtedly the most popular cartoon character to date. Did you know that the creation of Mickey Mouse is what made Walt Disney so successful? When Walt was 26 years old, he was returning home by train with […]

The Olympic Games Summary The first Olympic Games of which there is record were held in 776 B.C., and consisted of one event, a great foot race of about 200 yards held on a plain by the River Alpheus (now the Ruphia) just outside the little town of Olympia in Greece. It was from that […]

Questions and Answers Q. If you weighed 100 pounds (45 kilograms) on Earth, how much would you weigh on the Moon? A. 16½ pounds (7½ kilograms). Q. If you can jump 3 feet high (92 centimeters) on the arth, how high could you jump on the Moon? A. Just over 18 feet (about 5½ meters). […]

An agronomist specializes in soil and crops. An astronomer studies stars, planets and galaxies. A botanist specializes in plants. A cytologist specializes in the study of cells. An epidemiologist studies the spread of diseases. An ethologist studies animal behavior. A geneticist studies how traits are inherited. A geologist specializes in the history of Earth. A […]

Money Around the World Would you like to pay for your purchase in camels or cocoa beans? Perhaps you’d like your change in shells. Throughout history, all kinds of things have been used as money. Precious metals have kept their popularity since they’re easy to handle (unlike camels) and keep their value. Here is how […]

The Relationship between Apes and Humans Since scientists developed the ability to decode the genome and compare the genetic makeup of species, some people have been stunned to learn that about 98.5% of the genes in people and chimpanzees are identical. This finding means chimps are the closest living biological relatives to humans, but it […]

Online Tutoring Here is one more great advantage of ever growing Internet – Online Tutoring. In such a busy life, where both the parents are working its quite difficult to pay as much attention to the kids as required. Online education is a giant advantage for those who cannot afford to reach out to the […]

Great Artists A Few Great Artists Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) Italian Renaissance artist who was most famous as a painter but also excelled at drawing (particularly the human anatomy), architecture and sculpture. More than 500 years after it was painted, his Mona Lisa remains perhaps the best-known painting in the world. Art fans have long […]

Minerals and Gems Minerals are solid, inorganic (not living) substances that are found in and on earth. Most are chemical compounds, which means they are made up of two or more elements. For example, the mineral sapphire is made up of aluminum and oxygen. A few minerals, such as gold, silver and copper, are made […]

It’s hard to imagine that the Sun has not always been the way it is today. Yet there was time, in the distant past, when the Sun did not exist. More than 5 billion years ago, there was no Sun, no Earth, no solar system at all. There was, instead, just a huge, thin cloud […]

Story Telling What is story telling? As its core, story telling is the art of using language, voalization, and/or physical movement and gesture to reveal the element and images osf a story to a specific, live audience. A centeral, unique aspect of story telling is its reliance on the audience to develop specific visual imagery […]

Moon THE MOON 1. Our Spaceflight Begins ——————————————————————————– Imagine it’s the year 2030. From a spaceport near your home town, we’ve flown in a rocket-powered space plane hundreds of miles above the Earth. Now, inside an orbiting space station, we’re waiting for the most exciting part of our journey to begin – a space flight […]