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Animal Facts

Homework Center – Frequently Asked Questions Animals Where can I find out all about an animal or insect (e.g. polar bear, dragonfly, kangaroo, blue whale)? What do you call a group of…

René Descartes

René Descartes is often called the father of modern science. As a philosopher, he was a rationalist who believed in the power of logic to solve metaphysical questions and is considered foundational…

The Devil's Dictionary: X

by Ambrose Bierce WYX X in our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the…

The Conventions

The national conventions of both major parties are held during the summer of a presidential election year. Earlier, each party selects delegates by primaries, conventions, committees, etc.…

Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin and his fellow Stanford student Larry Page invented the Internet search engine Google. Sergey Brin's parents were Russian immigrants; he was six when the family moved to the United…

Sentences using every letter?

The Question: I've always thought that the only sentence that uses all the letters of the alphabet was "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Is…

Indo-European

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Indo-European, family of languages having more speakers than any other language family. It is estimated that approximately half the world's population speaks an Indo-European…

Malayo-Polynesian languages

(Encyclopedia) Malayo-Polynesian languagesMalayo-Polynesian languagesməlāˈō-pŏlĭnēˈzhən [key], sometimes also called Austronesian languagesAustronesian languagesôˌstrōnēˈzhən [key], family of…

writing

(Encyclopedia) writing, the visible recording of language peculiar to the human species. Writing enables the transmission of ideas over vast distances of time and space and is a prerequisite of…